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

[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.

[onis_uk]

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

just goes to show what a wank prog mcaffee is lol

[Graet]

Thanks for guiminer I have used it for most of my mining life
Could I ask that http://ozco.in be added to to your drop down pool list please

will drop a donation in the box on the way out
Thanks again

[the_joey_o]

I have 2 quick questions:

1) Is there a way to setup GUIMiner so that it starts mining right away when the program launches?

2) Is there a way to get an automated notification when a new version of GUIMiner rolls out?

[OCedHrt]

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

Can confirm this. Same thing here.

[goozman96]

1) Is there a way to setup GUIMiner so that it starts mining right away when the program launches?

That option is already present. Click on the Summary tab (if you don't have a summary tab, click View, and click show summary), then check "Autostart" for the miner you use.

[the_joey_o]

1) Is there a way to setup GUIMiner so that it starts mining right away when the program launches?

That option is already present. Click on the Summary tab (if you don't have a summary tab, click View, and click show summary), then check "Autostart" for the miner you use.

I did not have the summary page. Thanks!

[goozman96]

1) Is there a way to setup GUIMiner so that it starts mining right away when the program launches?

That option is already present. Click on the Summary tab (if you don't have a summary tab, click View, and click show summary), then check "Autostart" for the miner you use.

I did not have the summary page. Thanks!

Glad to help!

[Bitcoin_Silver_Supply]

I once mined my GPU in OpenCL without any CPU resources being used. Since downloading Catalyst 11.6B I can't mine in OpenCL or Phoenix without 50+% of both of my cores in constant use. Is anyone aware of what may have changed and any means of mining without eating CPU resources? I know about the "affinity" method but my CPU already runs very hot so using 100% of one core is still bad.

[iopq]

I once mined my GPU in OpenCL without any CPU resources being used. Since downloading Catalyst 11.6B I can't mine in OpenCL or Phoenix without 50+% of both of my cores in constant use. Is anyone aware of what may have changed and any means of mining without eating CPU resources? I know about the "affinity" method but my CPU already runs very hot so using 100% of one core is still bad.

then downgrade back

[terroh8er]

Holy cow. I upgraded to the latest update from 6.14 and my hash rate is 20MH/s+ higher on both of my 5850s. Went from 320MH/s to 343. Thanks!!!!

Also, I too am having high CPU usage, but this happened with the previous release as well. I have each GPU set to use a different core and these two cores are pinned at 100%.

[Bitcoin_Silver_Supply]

Holy cow. I upgraded to the latest update from 6.14 and my hash rate is 20MH/s+ higher on both of my 5850s. Went from 320MH/s to 343. Thanks!!!!

Also, I too am having high CPU usage, but this happened with the previous release as well. I have each GPU set to use a different core and these two cores are pinned at 100%.

Seems quite common unfortunately. Supposedly this is never an issue in Linux

[TiagoTiago]

The latest version is being accused by Comodo Antivirus as being malicious (it says the name of the threat is ApplicUnsaf.Win32.RiskTool.Bitcoinminer.A@228517640 ), WTF?!


edit:hm, now it isn't complaining about it anymore...weird...

[Meatball]

The latest version is being accused by Comodo Antivirus as being malicious (it says the name of the threat is ApplicUnsaf.Win32.RiskTool.Bitcoinminer.A@228517640 ), WTF?!


edit:hm, now it isn't complaining about it anymore...weird...

Do you have it set to autoclean?   Might have whacked that .exe...

[ZeroShift]

I suspect your antivirus is acting like this due to the Bitcoin Miner Trojans lurking around the internet. Which executable was it targeting? poclbm.exe?

[TiagoTiago]

Seems it's upset with the Ufasoft executable

[JBDive]

How to use a backup pool aka fallback support:

Fallback support is in the OpenCL miner only. In the flags, specify the --backup argument with the info of the backup pool. For example if I want to fallback to my account on slush's pool, I would write:

--backup=Kiv.GPU:mypass@api.bitcoin.cz:8332

If you don't know the host name or port, you can see it in the console tab whenever you run a miner.That's all you need for basic support. You can tweak it with these options:

--failback=N   attempt to fail back to the primary pool every n getworks, default 2
--tolerance=N   use fallback pool only after N consecutive connection errors, default 2

Being Dense here I guess as I don't follow how to set this up. I have GUiminer setup for a half dozen pools but due to recent DOS attacks I assume my primary is down a lot more than I like so I would like to backup to Deep. Now I can get there by using -F but the above sounds like a better solution since by setting my backup with a -F 125 I may not be sending many hashes to them but I am sending some, makes sense to me to always send your total available hashes to the primary.

BTW speaking of using -F why is it I am able to gain 3-5Mh in my total hash rate by setting up two miners than with just a single miner. Are there GPU cycles that are not being used and much like Hyperthreading I'm able to access those spare cycles? Or is this just a glitch in the GUIMiner reporting of total hash rate?

[ZeroShift]

Seems it's upset with the Ufasoft executable

So long as you feel that the executable was downloaded from a trusted source, set up an exception.

Antivirus -> Scanner Settings -> Exclusions

Add the executable or the whole folder if you feel they're safe.