The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread

[Maseo]

Now my problem is, vertminer is not showing GPU temperatures.

What should i do?

On windows or on Linux/Debian? I had that same issue. You need the AMD ADL_SDK files for it be able to monitor the temperatures.

Make sure the files are in the ADL_SDK folder and recompile it if you're on linux/debian. If that doesn't work; download the ADL_SDK 6.0 and manually place those files in the ADL_SDK folder

[themike5000]

hi i am mining this for a bit, what can I earn per Mhs? is there a calculator somewhere? Is mining with a 4720 i7 processor worth the hassle?

I think you you take your KH/s and divide by the difficulty you will get your coins per day. E.g. mining with 120KH/s will get you 3 coins per day worth maybe $3 = $8-9 per day. But difficulty is spiking and so is the price of VTC, so who knows where it will go.

[ricm]

how much are you getting from a 5870? i get 160kh/s

[merkin]

Someone please help me.

I've gotten the modded Vertminer cgminer

But I can't get it to run and mine..

it merely "opens cgminer" and just stays there on the black screen.


i have a r9 280x

this is the settings i have:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
C:\Vertminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://vertcoinheavyindustries.com:4444 -u x.x -p xxx  -I 12 -g 2 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8212 --shaders 2048 --expiry 1 --scan-time 1 --queue 0 --no-submit-stale --auto-fan



I've tried different values with TC and I etc..  and different pools too.. still get the same thing

"Started cgminer 3.7.2"

and just hangs there..

please any advice is greatly appreciated

[Fastpow]

Someone please help me.

I've gotten the modded Vertminer cgminer

But I can't get it to run and mine..

it merely "opens cgminer" and just stays there on the black screen.


i have a r9 280x

this is the settings i have:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
C:\Vertminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://vertcoinheavyindustries.com:4444 -u x.x -p xxx  -I 12 -g 2 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8212 --shaders 2048 --expiry 1 --scan-time 1 --queue 0 --no-submit-stale --auto-fan



I've tried different values with TC and I etc..  and different pools too.. still get the same thing

"Started cgminer 3.7.2"

and just hangs there..

please any advice is greatly appreciated

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A

C:\vertminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://vtc.kilovolt.co.uk:3333 -u Username -p Password-w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune -20 --gpu-memclock 1490 --thread-concurrency 8193

This should work

[Maseo]

I'm gonna say it one more time.

If you mine with a 280x set your GPU_MAX_ALLOC to 200 instead of 100.

You'll do 350ish instead of 270-300.

[Fastpow]

I'm gonna say it one more time.

If you mine with a 280x set your GPU_MAX_ALLOC to 200 instead of 100.

You'll do 350ish instead of 270-300.

Doesn't have to be that way mate, my 280x's are doing 355 with the settings i posted above.

[Maseo]

I'm gonna say it one more time.

If you mine with a 280x set your GPU_MAX_ALLOC to 200 instead of 100.

You'll do 350ish instead of 270-300.

Doesn't have to be that way mate, my 280x's are doing 355 with the settings i posted above.

Then you're one of the lucky ones. Windows or Linux?

[goin2mars]

Hi,

While the extra 10-15 hashes is nice, running I20 on these 290's w/ modified cgminer will literally beat the shit out of your cards. If you are monitoring them, please observe that you probably have constant usage crashes to 0% and if you have the comp on a circuit w/ lights they will be pulsating. You also won't have a responsive desktop. I have a permanent artifact from one of my power surges due to this.

If you value your cards, please consider I17 rather than I20.

I was using afterburner/asus gputweak to monitor the settings so please confirm for yourself. . .mining vertcoin is not like mining litecoin.

Not sure what you mean with usage crashes, GPU usage stays at 100, so does hashrate and yes, lights do pulsate but I think this is due to the power outages in our country due to heavy ice rain tearing electricity cables. Desktop is responsive.

What are you using to monitor your usage? Also, I was using kill a watt, and it was showing fluctuations from 600w to 950+w. . so they were definitely happening. Does your core clock drop at all? What's the rest of your setup like?

When I had symptoms as Yours (power draw fluctuating in my kill-a-watt) it was somethign wrong and soon later I had to rma 2 of my cards..first freezes came, then I couldn't power up windows with them and in the end green horizontal line on screen, and they had just few days (non-reference Windforce Gigabyte 290s)..I think Gigabyte have fucked up something in their PCB, cause vram 1 was 95-100 C, vram ~75..while all other reference cards (which supose to have shitty cooling) have vram 1 and vram 2 around 65-75C.

It only happens for me when using modified cgminer >I17. I can still mine regular scrypt using unmodded cgminer @ I20 with no fluctuations at all. The temps are all stable and within reason. . @70-75% fan speeds and 72-80C w/ 70F ambient temp. I did get one freeze yesterday, but I was still overclocking it too high @ 1075/1470. Now I've gone to 1000/1500 and they're happy for the whole night except sometimes I get a worker banned. I'm assuming it's from the ddosing happening at kilovolt but it could just as easily be due to a card starting to fail. What do you measure vram temps with?

It happened to me on normal scrypt mining. I have elpidia and the reference cards are no problem, I was mining VTC in a pool with I20 like 2 weeks ago for 2-3 days and I don't have problems. I think Your card is damaged permanently and sooner or later it will die (I remember Your post about green line etc. few pages back). Temp measured by Gpu-Z..what card (brand, model ref, non-ref You have?)

All my cards are reference asus. 3 are hynix and 2 are elpida.

The vrm temps are looking pretty normal to me right now no massive differences : listed vrm1/2 : 65/74, 63/72, 60/70, 58/67, 63/73 are what I'm seeing. I also ran @ I20 for 2-3 days, but it was one the 4th or 5th that I started seeing the issues. Honestly I can't remember having the problems for the first 2-3 days, when I had noticed the issue I was over 5 days into mining this @ i20. Actually, it looks like the line has cleared up after them comp ran overnight. .but I haven't reset it for 10 hours so it might very well come back.

Guys we've got a settings topic for this here

Just carrying the discussion to this thread.

[CoinBuzz]

Now my problem is, vertminer is not showing GPU temperatures.

What should i do?

On windows or on Linux/Debian? I had that same issue. You need the AMD ADL_SDK files for it be able to monitor the temperatures.

Make sure the files are in the ADL_SDK folder and recompile it if you're on linux/debian. If that doesn't work; download the ADL_SDK 6.0 and manually place those files in the ADL_SDK folder

I'm On BAMT linux, where is path of ADL_SDK on linux?

[Maseo]

Now my problem is, vertminer is not showing GPU temperatures.

What should i do?

On windows or on Linux/Debian? I had that same issue. You need the AMD ADL_SDK files for it be able to monitor the temperatures.

Make sure the files are in the ADL_SDK folder and recompile it if you're on linux/debian. If that doesn't work; download the ADL_SDK 6.0 and manually place those files in the ADL_SDK folder

I'm On BAMT linux, where is path of ADL_SDK on linux?

Then you should have a working ADL_SDK in bamt

try this in terminal:

cp /opt/miners/cgminer/ADL_SDK/* /where/you/vgminer-gpu/folder/is/ADL_SDK/

then run buildit.sh again. If that fails, manually download this file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10987558/ADL_SDK/ADL_SDK.zip and extract those files in the ADL_SDK folder and rebuild it again.

[madjihad]

Code:

--scrypt -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192 --gpu-powertune 0

Gets me 650 KHs on my 7990.

Cant get even 500KHs from my 7990 Even tried to use only one of its 7970 cores, still 200-230KHs. Ubuntu 12.04 vertminer 0.5.2, AMD driver 13.101.
Tried both:

Code:

GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=200

 
and some values in between, still no changes.

Code:

 -I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 -g 2

[Munkee915]

So I woke up this morning and vertminer had crashed.  maybe i was pushing the ram to high.  I went back to cgminer and dialed it back.  Here is my current config:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://stratum.vertco.in:8080 -u x.x -p x -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 -l 1 --gpu-threads 2 --looklupgap 2 --shaders 2048 --gpu-engine 1080 --gpu-memclock 1496 --gpu-vddc 1.100 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 75 --gpu-fan 100 --auto-fan

getting 295 from gpu 0 and 280 from gpu 1.  Any tips on getting them above 300?  2 Sapphire 7970 ghz vapor-x flashed w/ dual-x bios.

[kbusb]

Getting around around 290/300 kh/s with 7950 sapphire dualx with boost 3GB  No HWs

-I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192  --gpu-powertune 20 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-memclock 1500  1.187V VGPU

[Nowii]

Here are my settings for my Cudaminer with GTX 780. i am getting 180 Khash/s with it.


cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -i 1 -l T12x24 -C 2 -H 2

[mrbrdo]

He's not wrong, 7950's need high TCC's to perform well. High TCC's need more RAM. 8GB recommended. You can't compare to 280x's because they work on 2 threads with low TCC's.

Possibly, but they run fine now with gpu-threads 2 and intensity 13. TC doesn't seem to affect it as much as intensity, if I dropped intensity to 13 with 16k TC it started to work fine. I tried to drop TC below 6k with 18 intensity and did not work - HW errors.

[Maseo]

He's not wrong, 7950's need high TCC's to perform well. High TCC's need more RAM. 8GB recommended. You can't compare to 280x's because they work on 2 threads with low TCC's.

Possibly, but they run fine now with gpu-threads 2 and intensity 13. TC doesn't seem to affect it as much as intensity, if I dropped intensity to 13 with 16k TC it started to work fine. I tried to drop TC below 6k with 18 intensity and did not work - HW errors.

+1

-13 with TC 19xxx and G1 did around 200 kh/s
-13 with TC 8193 and G2 does 250-310 kh/s

[Fastpow]

I'm gonna say it one more time.

If you mine with a 280x set your GPU_MAX_ALLOC to 200 instead of 100.

You'll do 350ish instead of 270-300.

Doesn't have to be that way mate, my 280x's are doing 355 with the settings i posted above.

Then you're one of the lucky ones. Windows or Linux?

Windows.

If you've got 280x's yourself try these settings out. Working like a charm for me.

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A

C:\vertminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o Server -u Username -p Password-w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune -20 --gpu-memclock 1490 --thread-concurrency 8193

[Maseo]

I'm gonna say it one more time.

If you mine with a 280x set your GPU_MAX_ALLOC to 200 instead of 100.

You'll do 350ish instead of 270-300.

Doesn't have to be that way mate, my 280x's are doing 355 with the settings i posted above.

Then you're one of the lucky ones. Windows or Linux?

Windows.

If you've got 280x's yourself try these settings out. Working like a charm for me.

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A

C:\vertminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o Server -u Username -p Password-w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune -20 --gpu-memclock 1490 --thread-concurrency 8193

That's the thing. i don't run windows rigs. i needed 200 on my linux rigs to get the normal kh/s (350-360)

[whatthephil]

Having problems with modded cgminer... But everyone else seems fine.

Specs: XFX R9 280x getting 230Khs on Vertcoin. Normally gets 700khs on others, NOT EVEN 50%.
 I am using Windows 8

(Just FYI I'm not new to the mining scene)

I dont know if the cgminer was recently changed, but the -Intensity level CANNOT go above "-I 12" or the miner will go crazy with HW (hardware errors)

Everyones settings are with Intensities between 13-20 and saying they get 300Khs per card.....  YES, I can get 300khs per card if I chose intensity 13-20;HOWEVER , the amount of HW (hardware errors) IS CRAZY!!

Also the thread concurrencies straight up just DONT WORK! I have to choose a concurrency around or below 6,000 for it to work. If I choose a TC like 8193 it will start the miner and say GPU 0 FAILURE, DISABLING

Here are my cgminer settings:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://vtc.poolz.net:3333 -u xxx -p xxx -I 12 -w 256 -g 2 -v 1 --thread-concurrency 6080 --auto-fan --gpu-memclock 1600,1600 --gpu-engine 1100,1100 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --expiry 20 --scan-time 5 --queue 1 --no-submit-stale --temp-cutoff 85 --temp-overheat 80 --temp-target 75

Any help would be appreciated!
NOTE: I have a gtx 770 as well normally avg 300Khs and getting 150Khs (That's 50%)
I've messed around with the settings for a good 5hours... cant find any working method. So if youre going to tell me to remove or add something. Trust me I probably already did it.