The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread

[DLow]

is there a miner that supports different gpu threads for different cards? for scrypt i'm using the modified version from kalroth, but doesn't seem possible with vtc?

any ideas? thanks in advance

[NitroKoS]

what could be the reason of vertminer 0.5.2 and 0.5.3 not working? the cmd window closes as soon as I run the .bat file. Has anyone had a similar issue?

place this on the last line of your bat file to see what is going wrong:

pause

[mashac]

Anybody know why this is happening with my 6950?

[DynamicDK]

Anybody know why this is happening with my 6950?

Try a lower thread concurrency. I have a 7870, and my best results were with about half of that.

Drop your concurrency to 1/4th of what it is at, and intensity to 10.  Then, move intensity up, 1 at a time, to 13 or so.  After that, go to 1/2 what your concurrency is now and intensity of 10, and again move up 1 at a time to 13.  Record your hash rate at each point.

That will give you the best concurrency \ intensity combination for your card.

[majkara]

Anybody know why this is happening with my 6950?

http://i60.tinypic.com/i6intv.png

How much RAM do you have (not GPU ram)? I had this problem when I had too little memory.

[muhhentuhhen]

MPOS pool owner here, any required changes to MPOS pool configuration to run vertcoin pool?

[CoinAmmo]

Can someone post optimal settings for 290X Sapphire 4GB ?

[mashac]

Anybody know why this is happening with my 6950?

How much RAM do you have (not GPU ram)? I had this problem when I had too little memory.

4 GB Ram.

[asder00]

Anybody know why this is happening with my 6950?

http://i60.tinypic.com/i6intv.png

How much RAM do you have (not GPU ram)? I had this problem when I had too little memory.

4 GB Ram.

I have the same error (and same system memory) :/
Is this the problem?

Thanx

[pkjames]

Can someone post optimal settings for 290X Sapphire 4GB ?

I could only manage to get to 400KHz with my ref. sapphire 290x interested to see what others can do.
the magic for me was tc=2816*8

[dragonmike]

I mined away happily for 24 hours yesterday on my 6x R9 280x rig with TC@8192, core@1030, mem@1500, -g2, lookup gap 2... giving 370Kh/s per card. 5 HW Errors after 24 hours was acceptable. But this morning I woke up to a DEAD card, and I couldn't even restart the miner, it would just hang.

I'd lower the mem clock to 1450 and see if it stops dying, then work on optimizing the other factors from there. Some cards are just not as strong. I have one that doesn't quite get to 1500.

It's an ASUS DC2T-3GD5, it's mem is clocked by default at 1600... I'm already underclocking it by 100!

[Fayens]

Anyone can help me with Vertminer please? I run smooth with CGMiner for Doge, but cant run VERTMiner for Panda :x

Here is the code for r9 290x

BAT FILE

Code:

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe

CONF FILE

Code:

{
"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "pool:port",
                "user" : "user",
                "pass" : "pass"
        }
]
,
"intensity" : "20, 20, 20, 20",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "512",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "32765, 32765, 32765, 32765",
"shaders" : "0,0",
"gpu-fan" : "30-90, 30-90, 30-90, 30-90",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"temp-target" : "88",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"auto-fan" : true,
"api-listen" : true,
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"failover-only" : true,
"queue" : "2",
"scan-time" : "5",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3"
}

[flounderella]

Edit:
I moved the intensity to 19 and it gives a stable hash of 423. At 20, it still works but pc starts to lag and I can't do anything else

Updated:

With Sapphire R9 290x BF ed, I'm using the below to get stable 436 KH with zero hardware error. Any other setting and tons of HW errors start coming in. I think the thread concurrency did it for me. Has to be 2816*8 for this card. Don't ask me why (though I'm a computer engineer; just not very upto speed with AMD chipset). Also I run the fan at fixed speed of 75% from Trixx to keep temperature below 75C.

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
COLOR 0A

vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o <url:port> -u <user> -p <password> -I 20 --lookup-gap 2 -w 256 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --thread-concurrency 22528

[phaddie]

Hey guys,

  Trying to get going with vertcoin and am having some issues.  I am using SMOS and I used the posted method for installing vertminer.  I have 3 r9 290 and no matter which settings for TC and I are used I get nothing but hardware errors.  Can someone take a look at my conf file and tell me where the problem might be?

"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "64",
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "99",
"temp-overheat" : "95",
"temp-target" : "88",
"expiry" : "30",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"retry-pause" : "5",
"scan-time" : "30",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "7500",
"gpu-thread" : "1",
"gpu-engine" : "941",
"sharethreads" : "32",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250"


Cheers

Phad

edit:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1

are set as well.

[TookDk]

give me your exact settings are plug it straight in. and ill screenshot what im getting

Edit:
Okay found your settings
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

ive tried it already but ill try again and screenshot it

I might add, i've got the MSI R9x 280x gamer 3gb. Seems to be giving the most kh/s from the 280x series so you might see a little difference

Can you share your settings for the MSI R9 280X gamer 3GB, I am having the same card and is not getting more than 220 KH/s. (Ill be happy to tip you if your config works for me)

[phaddie]

Hey guys,

  Trying to get going with vertcoin and am having some issues.  I am using SMOS and I used the posted method for installing vertminer.  I have 3 r9 290 and no matter which settings for TC and I are used I get nothing but hardware errors.  Can someone take a look at my conf file and tell me where the problem might be?

"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "64",
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "99",
"temp-overheat" : "95",
"temp-target" : "88",
"expiry" : "30",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"retry-pause" : "5",
"scan-time" : "30",
"scrypt" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "7500",
"gpu-thread" : "1",
"gpu-engine" : "941",
"sharethreads" : "32",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250"


Cheers

Phad

edit:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1

are set as well.

ok I removed "scrypt": true and no I get no hardware errors but I am not getting any accepted, just share above target over and over again. 

also it is reporting my hashrate like this:

(5s):2.190G (avg):2.199Gh/s | A:0  R:160  HW:0  WU:34.5/m
 ST: 2  SS: 1 (inf%)  NB: 0  PA: 8  PR: 7  LW: 230  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Connected to east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com diff 16 with stratum as user phadcoin.
 Block: 4ae04b40...  Diff:38  Started: [15:49:50]  Best share: 404
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:                | 739.9M/745.9Mh/s | A:0 R:112 HW:0 WU: 13.3/m I:13
 GPU 1:                | 712.5M/715.6Mh/s | A:0 R: 32 HW:0 WU: 10.0/m I:13
 GPU 2:                | 754.1M/760.2Mh/s | A:0 R: 16 HW:0 WU: 11.2/m I:13

Which does not seem right.

[Fayens]

Whats wrong with my conf file? It work fine with CGMiner :s

Here is the code for r9 290x

BAT FILE

Code:

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe

CONF FILE

Code:

{
"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "pool:port",
                "user" : "user",
                "pass" : "pass"
        }
]
,
"intensity" : "20, 20, 20, 20",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "512",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "32765, 32765, 32765, 32765",
"shaders" : "0,0",
"gpu-fan" : "30-90, 30-90, 30-90, 30-90",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"temp-target" : "88",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"auto-fan" : true,
"api-listen" : true,
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"failover-only" : true,
"queue" : "2",
"scan-time" : "5",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3"
}

[JohnnyDaMitch]

I mined away happily for 24 hours yesterday on my 6x R9 280x rig with TC@8192, core@1030, mem@1500, -g2, lookup gap 2... giving 370Kh/s per card. 5 HW Errors after 24 hours was acceptable. But this morning I woke up to a DEAD card, and I couldn't even restart the miner, it would just hang.

I'd lower the mem clock to 1450 and see if it stops dying, then work on optimizing the other factors from there. Some cards are just not as strong. I have one that doesn't quite get to 1500.

It's an ASUS DC2T-3GD5, it's mem is clocked by default at 1600... I'm already underclocking it by 100!

Oh, I didn't realize that! Well, I've heard of a flaky PCI-e slot causing this problem, so you might want to swap two cards.

[AshTheDark]

Got over 230KH for R9 270X:

-I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 6720 -g 2 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 70 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-100 --shaders 1280

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51141759/btc/vert_result.png

If I helped, make a tip :-)

[xtapodi]

I have the following 2 cards

1.ASUS 280x 245 Kh/s
2.XFX 270x 165 Kh/s

with the following config

setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

del *.bin
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3361 -u xxx.xxx -p x -I 12,12 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 4196 -g 2 --gpu-memclock 1600,1500 --gpu-engine 1100,1050 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 70,70 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-100


what am I doing wrong? or what can i improve