Mining Vertcoin (newb) - General Questions

[purplehayes2400]

Vertcoin is the first coin I have ever tried to mine. I am just doing it from my laptop and don't expect crazy results. After two days of simply commanding the -qt client 'setgenerate' with no results I figured out how to use cpuminer and have joined a pool. I have some questions:

1.) I hate the idea of 98% cpu usage at all times. Is there a way to limit this?

2.) In my eternal hunt for information I noticed that cpuminer hooks up with the lite-coin qt quite well. Is this possible with any -qt client? Would it make more sense for me to mine lite-coins if the program integration is better? The idea of solo mining is very appealing but it just doesn't seem to make sense with what I have.

I now have ~.35VTC in my pool account and zero in my wallet! I long for that first transaction. Thanks for any advice

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[purplehayes2400]

1.5VTC Magically appeared in my wallet! Thank you anonymous giver..... Also, I have learned a lot about how to do this whole mining thing. There is a virtual 'shit-ton' of information online. It took me awhile to sift through it. I realize I may be talking to myself but oh well! I am having sooooo much fun!

[Wipeout2097]

 

there's a gpu miner available, even for Nvidia chips http://www.vertcoin.org/

What's the brand and model of your laptop?

[purplehayes2400]

I have figured out how to cpu mine with both the CUDA and cgminer when I am at an internet cafe. However, my personal laptop doesn't agree with them. With cgminer it is a missing .dll file and CUDA just blips on and off. My laptop is a Samsung Sens RV511. If you have any advice as to how to proceed GPU mining with it it would be appreciated.

*edit: downloaded OpenCL.dll and placed it in cgminer directory - now it behaves just like CUDA - a fatal error in the initialization shuts it down immediately.

Intel(r) hd card --- drivers up to date -- that is all the info I can find from windows.

[kyma]

I am in the same boat. MacBook Pro, tried to mine with just 2 cores using

Code:

setgenerate true [cores]

2 does not work, nor does two.

Code:

setgenerate true [2.0]

Error: value is type array, expected int

setgenerate true [two]

Error: Error parsing JSON:[two]

Anyway. Using just

Code:

setgenerate true

seems to work on the mac client.

Futhermore, the following prompt

Code:

getmininginfo

yields the following results:

Code:

{
"blocks" : 30248,
"currentblocksize" : 12217,
"currentblocktx" : 32,
"difficulty" : 148.49232621,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 3642,
"networkhashps" : 4406166634,
"pooledtx" : 33,
"testnet" : false
}

looks like 3642 hashes per sec haha woohoo!

[kyma]

what is "currentblocktx" represent?