GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum!

[ewibit]

Thanks once again for the great job you do with guiminer. A Linux option would be appreciated.

Hi
because I cannot install it from source in Linux (natty) please can someone tell how to make this exactly?
TIA

[PandaMiner]

Changelog:

20110701:
- Updated poclbm (OpenCL miner) backend to the latest version which has built-in fallback support and slightly
improved performance using a modified phatk kernel. Big thanks to m0mchil and all who submitted code for this. This version should be a few percent faster on most graphics cards.

This has given me 9% boost on my Sapphire 6790!

[Dimsum]

If the latest version has Phoenix 1.5 then why does the console say this:

[09/07/2011 16:13:00] Phoenix 1.48 starting...

It loaded my settings from the previous version and that version of GUIminer is still in its own separate folder.

In the Console, I noticed it is looking for phoenix.exe from my the folder of my old copy of GUIminer. When i extracted this version, it automatically loaded with the saved settings of the previous version. Therefore I guess that the settings include the location to the old version of Phoenix 1.48 instead of the new 1.5 that is in the folder of the latest version.

How do I resolve this problem? I thought saving settings etc would be my mining pools/passwords etc and not include stuff like Phoneix.exe and that the new GUI would be clever enough to use the latest version in its own folder?

What am I missing here?

.....................Did get a 10% boost on my 5830 card on OpenCL! Thanks!

[goozman96]

It says 1.50 on mine and when I installed the new one, I just chose the same folder to extract it to and it asked if I wanted to replace the files and I said yes. Try uninstalling it and installing it fresh.

[burningrave101]

Is there any way you could add an option to select multiple devices in GUIMiner so that you could just create one miner tab and fill in the info with Server, E-mail, Password, Extra flags, ect and then just select all the devices you want to mine on that individual Worker? That way you wouldn't have to create a ton of different miner tabs if you have 4-6+ devices and use several different pools with different kernels and flags. It would also make it easier to start and stop your miners if you just had to click stop and start once instead of multiple times for each device. Is something like that possible?

[goozman96]

Is there any way you could add an option to select multiple devices in GUIMiner so that you could just create one miner tab and fill in the info with Server, E-mail, Password, Extra flags, ect and then just select all the devices you want to mine on that individual Worker? That way you wouldn't have to create a ton of different miner tabs if you have 4-6+ devices and use several different pools with different kernels and flags. It would also make it easier to start and stop your miners if you just had to click stop and start once instead of multiple times for each device. Is something like that possible?

+1
Even though I only have one card, this can be very useful for others with more than one.

[burger]

can you add swepool to the gui?

http://www.swepool.net/how-to

[Meatball]

+1 to the "Copy Miner Tab" request.  If you want to test the same card using different miner settings, etc, or if you switch pools on machines that have multiple cards, it would be soooo much easier to just have some sort of 'Copy Miner' option that created a duplicate copy of the miner with all the settings you had.

[Chimel]

Ironically the GUI of guiminer.exe (2011-07-01) disappeared from my Windows 7 x64 machine.
After investigating, I found out that poclbm.ini's settings for "window_position" were changed to -32000 for both horizontal and vertical positions. I reset them to 0 and I could see the GUI again when launching guiminer.exe. Hope this helps other people. You may want to check why it resets to -32000 instead of 0. It happened a second time to me just now, while I was opening and closing guiminer.exe to test it. Here's the ini content:

    "window_position": [
         -32000,
        -32000,
        160,
        27
    ]

Also, I noticed that the poclbm.exe process is now taking up 50% of the CPU usage, with the first of the 2 dual core CPUs at 100%, when it used to be 0% with the 2011-06-09 version of guiminer.exe. I saw that "CPU Affinity" had the #0 CPU checked, so I unchecked it, but all it did was switch the 100% usage from CPU #0 to #1 in Windows Task Manager.
There is just one miner in guiminer.exe, the default one using the NVidia card. Both CPU Affinity checkboxes are unselected, there is nothing in the Extra flags box. So it looks like mining happens both on the GPU and the CPU, with a slightly lower MH/s rate compared to when it mined on the GPU only.

Strangely, both bugs appeared at the time BitDefender reported a Trojan in guiminer\miners\ufasoft\bitcoin-miner.exe and deleted the file. I also inadvertently launched a second guiminer.exe process at about the same time (because the first one was not visible in the Notification area by default) which apparently resulted in 2 guiminer processes running each half the MH/s rate than the previous unique process used to run, and I haven't been able to run guiminer normally every since, even after reinstalling with BitDefender disabled.

There is no trace of guiminer or poclbm in my Registry, I cleaned up the Notification Area Icons, deleted and redownloaded guiminer, so I don't know what's happening and how to get back to 0% CPU usage.

[BGL]

Also, I noticed that the poclbm.exe process is now taking up 50% of the CPU usage, with the first of the 2 dual core CPUs at 100%, when it used to be 0% with the 2011-06-09 version of guiminer.exe.

I am having a similar/same problem. I have a cpu+nvidia mining going. Every 15-120+ seconds poclbm consumes a core (of 4) to 100% for around 30 seconds. poclbm has used 50min+ of cpu time in just the last few hours. I do not recall this happening on the previous version.

The impact on cpu mining is obvious.

[BGL]

I re-booted last night, (around the same time of my last post ^) and poclbm has used 3 hours 35min+ of cpu time since then.

[goozman96]

I'll make these two requests again for a future version:

1. The ability to remember previously used flags. There could just be a drop down menu button next to the text input field.
2. The ability to minimize to the task bar instead of only just the tray. (and when you press the X button, for it to actually close, not minimize to the tray) Options, please!

Also, regarding my request for keeping the window the same size and position when restarting the program - the same position is kept, however, the size still reverts to default. I have the window stretched a little more than default, horizontally, however, when I restart the program, it still goes back to the same default size. But the positioning of the window is fixed.

----

I'd like to request one more thing:

When I press refresh balance for the first time and it asks me for my token, please make it so that the "(paste token here)" is pre-highlighed or allow it to become fully highlighted by triple clicking on it.

Thank you!

Can I add one more thing? (I'm sorry)

If you do add the ability to minimize GUIMiner to the task bar instead of only to the tray, could you make it so that it displays the MH/s in the title of the program, so that it is shown in the task bar. I'm not sure if you have ever used utorrent (I'm guessing you're familiar with it), just like how on utorrent you can have it so that it shows your up and down speed in the title bar, that's what I want with GUIMiner. For it to have the MH/s in the title bar, at the beginning of it (because if it's at the end of the title bar - ie after "GUIMiner - v2011-07-01" - then there won't be enough room to display it in the task bar.

So basically, I want it to be like this:
"##MH/s - GUIMiner - v2011-##-##"

Thanks for reading and your consideration.

[williamthec]

Ironically the GUI of guiminer.exe (2011-07-01) disappeared from my Windows 7 x64 machine.
After investigating, I found out that poclbm.ini's settings for "window_position" were changed to -32000 for both horizontal and vertical positions. I reset them to 0 and I could see the GUI again when launching guiminer.exe. Hope this helps other people. You may want to check why it resets to -32000 instead of 0. It happened a second time to me just now, while I was opening and closing guiminer.exe to test it. Here's the ini content:

    "window_position": [
         -32000,
        -32000,
        160,
        27
    ]

Also, I noticed that the poclbm.exe process is now taking up 50% of the CPU usage, with the first of the 2 dual core CPUs at 100%, when it used to be 0% with the 2011-06-09 version of guiminer.exe. I saw that "CPU Affinity" had the #0 CPU checked, so I unchecked it, but all it did was switch the 100% usage from CPU #0 to #1 in Windows Task Manager.
There is just one miner in guiminer.exe, the default one using the NVidia card. Both CPU Affinity checkboxes are unselected, there is nothing in the Extra flags box. So it looks like mining happens both on the GPU and the CPU, with a slightly lower MH/s rate compared to when it mined on the GPU only.

Strangely, both bugs appeared at the time BitDefender reported a Trojan in guiminer\miners\ufasoft\bitcoin-miner.exe and deleted the file. I also inadvertently launched a second guiminer.exe process at about the same time (because the first one was not visible in the Notification area by default) which apparently resulted in 2 guiminer processes running each half the MH/s rate than the previous unique process used to run, and I haven't been able to run guiminer normally every since, even after reinstalling with BitDefender disabled.

There is no trace of guiminer or poclbm in my Registry, I cleaned up the Notification Area Icons, deleted and redownloaded guiminer, so I don't know what's happening and how to get back to 0% CPU usage.

Thanks for you hints, it really help me a lot~

[Dimsum]

It says 1.50 on mine and when I installed the new one, I just chose the same folder to extract it to and it asked if I wanted to replace the files and I said yes. Try uninstalling it and installing it fresh.

Thanks for that. I was scared to overwrite the old GUIminer files incase my settings were overwritten. Kiv needs to edit the first page and place some information about people who are upgrading. At the moment there is nothing to say what to do when you need to upgrade and most people like myself would be scared to just overwrite files incase we lose our settings etc. Since the settings themselves are saved elsewhere, overwriting the previous install doesn't do any harm, but Kiv should point this out in the beginning. Surprised he offers no information about those who want to upgrade from previous versions.

[borgfish]

latest download : mcaffee deletes ufasoft\bitcoin-miner.exe : claims trojan Generic.tfr!d

[TYDIRocks]

Ironically the GUI of guiminer.exe (2011-07-01) disappeared from my Windows 7 x64 machine.
After investigating, I found out that poclbm.ini's settings for "window_position" were changed to -32000 for both horizontal and vertical positions. I reset them to 0 and I could see the GUI again when launching guiminer.exe. Hope this helps other people. You may want to check why it resets to -32000 instead of 0. It happened a second time to me just now, while I was opening and closing guiminer.exe to test it. Here's the ini content:

    "window_position": [
         -32000,
        -32000,
        160,
        27
    ]

Odd, that happened to me too but only 2 times.

Also, could you add the feature for backups in the GUI instead of having to add flags please?

[Yatta99]

Well as long as everyone is making requests, I may as well make a few myself 

- once you put in your api key, how about an option to automatically update your balance periodically? Nothing too often that might bother the servers if everyone decides to do it. Say, auto update once every half hour?

- a clear button on the console tab. I really don't need to scroll back several days.

- a clear stats button that resets the found/stales numbers back to zero. Useful for testing.

The second two can already be done by shutting down and restarting the client but that's such a messy way of doing things.

Then you can get to work on giving us all cool looking UI skins 

[c_k]

I have made a small donation

Two quick requests:

1.) bitcoins.lc is still listed as bitcoin.lc

2.) can you add rfcpool.com to the list?

Cheers!

[Un zafado cualquiera]

Hey guys...¿anyone knows how to ask the anti-virus guys about removing the alerts? AVG tried to delete the self-extracing installer.

really the script kiddies screwed all this time!!!

[newMeat1]

This works great, very easy--- thank you! I jumped from 93.5 Mhash/s to 99 Mhash/s, beating the wikipedia Mining Hardware Comparison for a 5670 by quite a bit.