Vertcoin Settings/Configs (How To Mine VertCoin)

[Vertcoin]

Hash Size is variable according to difficulty?

No, the memory required to complete one hash is variable based on N.  N is currently 2048 aka NFactor=10, taking 256KB GPU memory per hash for now.
N is scheduled to change to 11 on  2/25/2016 where N will be 4096 and it will take 512 KB of GPU memory to complete each hash.

I said 11 in my previous post, but that's not correct - Vertcoin/nscrypt kernels N factor is off by 1 from scrypt for the same memory requirement and I got that wrong in my last post.

Thank you Thirtybird, you are the best people from Yacoin that I have known.
Actually, N factor in Vertcoin must be 11, but in the code is off by 1 due to the code are derived from Yacoin.

PS: I remembered first time I mined Yacoin with your cpuminer.



 

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[xy_]

Hello Everybody!

I have problem for HD 5970 GPU card Do I not see what he signals? Blank screen (pls visit image) https://www.dropbox.com/s/8b4ie16x2s8rfij/hiba.PNG
Tested on more machines.
Only this type is that's the problem.
Current configuration
HD 7970 HD 5970 HD 7970
If I withdraw it the HD5970 I see it then picture.
What is the correct setting?
Thanks for reply!

[Thirtybird]

Hello Everybody!

I have problem for HD 5970 GPU card Do I not see what he signals? Blank screen (pls visit image) https://www.dropbox.com/s/8b4ie16x2s8rfij/hiba.PNG
Tested on more machines.
Only this type is that's the problem.
Current configuration
HD 7970 HD 5970 HD 7970
If I withdraw it the HD5970 I see it then picture.
What is the correct setting?
Thanks for reply!

Run the same command with "-T" in the command line.  It will show you what it is doing instead of a blank screen.  The other time I've seen blank screens was on older miners and there was a bug in the ADL, so you could get it to work with "--no-adl".  Most newer miners are patched to fix that, but you didn't specify what you were using.

[xy_]

Hello Everybody!

I have problem for HD 5970 GPU card Do I not see what he signals? Blank screen (pls visit image) https://www.dropbox.com/s/8b4ie16x2s8rfij/hiba.PNG
Tested on more machines.
Only this type is that's the problem.
Current configuration
HD 7970 HD 5970 HD 7970
If I withdraw it the HD5970 I see it then picture.
What is the correct setting?
Thanks for reply!

Run the same command with "-T" in the command line.  It will show you what it is doing instead of a blank screen.  The other time I've seen blank screens was on older miners and there was a bug in the ADL, so you could get it to work with "--no-adl".  Most newer miners are patched to fix that, but you didn't specify what you were using.

Big thanks!!
Seen this work "--no-adl"

You have for any ideal for settings bat file? 2xhd5970 (4gpu)
Thanks

[xy_]

Hello Everybody!

2 X Hd5970
He would be a little problem yet!  pls visit image https://www.dropbox.com/s/912aljtan6so3kc/error.PNG
Not to see the temperature and the ventilator rev.
Can somebody help?

[Thirtybird]

Hello Everybody!

2 X Hd5970
He would be a little problem yet!  pls visit image https://www.dropbox.com/s/912aljtan6so3kc/error.PNG
Not to see the temperature and the ventilator rev.
Can somebody help?

The --no-adl disables that output.  It appears your mining software isn't really up to date.  YACMiner (in my signature) is capable of mining VertCoin, and has a patch that fixes an adl problem that was similar (maybe the same problem) to yours.  The command line should be similar, but you need to put in a few extra commands into your command-line somewhere (and you'll be able to take out the --no-adl)

--nscrypt --nfmin 10 --nfmax --starttime 1389430800

[Speedy]

I can't get these 7xxx cards running any good on n-scrypt

Asus asus-hd7770-dc-1gd5 (The machine has 8GB Ram)
@echo off
color 0A
REM setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
REM setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker -p pass -I 12 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 7300

I get 160khash on cgminer. I get 3-4khash on N-Scrypt

XFX R7790 (The machine has 32GB Ram)

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker -p pass -I 18 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 6500

I get 200khash on scrypt. I get about 10-12khash on N-Scrypt

Can anyone help me tune up these cards, for scrypt mining.

I seems like the whole thread is 270-280 and 290 cards. PLEASE We need some settings for lower cards.

[Thirtybird]

I can't get these 7xxx cards running any good on n-scrypt

Asus asus-hd7770-dc-1gd5 (The machine has 8GB Ram)
@echo off
color 0A
REM setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
REM setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker -p pass -I 12 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 7300

I get 160khash on cgminer. I get 3-4khash on N-Scrypt

I have a 7850M that has the same number of shaders and 1GB of memory.  The best I've got is as follows (you need to use YACMiner to get this rate though)

Code:

yacminer --nscrypt --worksize 64 -g 1 --lookup-gap 2 --buffer-size 670 -X 8 --nfmin 10 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1389430800

about 75 KH/sec with that.  The same settings should work on the 7790 too.

[Gazza1]

why can't I get this damn thing to build on xubuntu 13.10

I followed this to a T
http://vertcoin.org/Ubuntu13-10_headless_howto.html

keccak and x11 was cake. this one is a pain in the ass.

[exfodel]

I've been poking around the settings, you do not need 4GB ram to run vertminer getting insane amount of hw error. I tried on my gaming rig with 16gb ram still getting hardware error with incorrect setting. imo the ram dun matter that much but you will still need a min of 2gb for scyrpt mining.

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[vnplasma]

Any have config for R9 270x pls. Im Using file *bat.

My Sys:

Win 7
Ram: 4GB
R9 270x

[mascott]

I can't get these 7xxx cards running any good on n-scrypt

Asus asus-hd7770-dc-1gd5 (The machine has 8GB Ram)
@echo off
color 0A
REM setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
REM setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker -p pass -I 12 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 7300

I get 160khash on cgminer. I get 3-4khash on N-Scrypt

XFX R7790 (The machine has 32GB Ram)

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u worker -p pass -I 18 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 6500

I get 200khash on scrypt. I get about 10-12khash on N-Scrypt

Can anyone help me tune up these cards, for scrypt mining.

I seems like the whole thread is 270-280 and 290 cards. PLEASE We need some settings for lower cards.


i have a sapphire 7790 oc edithion 2gb mem running at 1050 core clock and 1600 memory and i get betweeand 119 and 122 khs using vert kev miner 0.5.2 here is my config file

,
"rawintensity" : "3583",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "4479",
"temp-cutoff" : "85",
"expiry" : "30",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"device" : "0",
"shaders" : "896",
"scrypt-vert" : true
}

if i used any other settings the most i got was between 10 and 15 khs and took me awhile to find that this was the best i could do,,,,my bat file looks like this

@echo off
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0C
timeout /t 4
vertminer.exe -g 3 --failover-only --load-balance

hope this helps you and any other 7790 owners out there, have only just started mining for fun and like a challange with trying all the settings


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[xy_]

Hello Everybody!

2 X Hd5970
He would be a little problem yet!  pls visit image https://www.dropbox.com/s/912aljtan6so3kc/error.PNG
Not to see the temperature and the ventilator rev.
Can somebody help?

The --no-adl disables that output.  It appears your mining software isn't really up to date.  YACMiner (in my signature) is capable of mining VertCoin, and has a patch that fixes an adl problem that was similar (maybe the same problem) to yours.  The command line should be similar, but you need to put in a few extra commands into your command-line somewhere (and you'll be able to take out the --no-adl)

--nscrypt --nfmin 10 --nfmax --starttime 1389430800

Thanks for reply!
I was not worth this part of his unfortunately. "--nscrypt --nfmin 10 --nfmax --starttime 1389430800"
I wrote the value in. and mistake.
I paired it MSI afterburner and to see the value.

Other topic
VTC where I can convert it BTC?
BR

[Gazza1]

Why do I get no such file or directory when I ./configure

[larksshire]

@whatthephil
You are a lifesaver!! I was having a baggggilllllionnnn issues, this or that, or one thing or another trying to set up to mine vertcoin. I followed this article to a T (minus minor changes to account for HW differences) and presto! You rock! TYTYTY!!!!!

I am a super-small-scale miner running from a laptop for fun and experience. This is my bat file:

@ECHO off
timeout /t 5
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A

vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://vtc.poolz.net:3333 -u xxxxxxx -p xxxxxxxx -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 1 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --auto-fan --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-engine 685 --thread-concurrency 3584
PAUSE

THANKS!

http://vertcoin.org (official website)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.0 (main thread)

So I feel the need to post this to help any newcomers, after having the worst experience trying to make vertcoin work correctly and getting an optimal amount of Kh/s.

Vertcoin uses a new algorithm: Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor (Not scrypt-jane) which results in about half your normal hashrate, and requires different miner settings and a modded miner(vertminer).

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Here is a list of things you will need!

1) First things first you need to get the Vertcoin wallet of course! http://vertcoin.org/#wallets

2) Second download VERTMINER-0.5.3 (it is currently not updated with the main website). If you want the latest versions of the miner you have to keep up with the main Vertcoin thread which is quoted below since they don't update the website with the latest version right away! This miner wont give you hardware errors (HW) like the other older versions.

finally here it is

vertminer-0.5.3 released

windows build: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5n70hj3izjj64y1/vertminer-0.5.3.zip
github source: https://github.com/Bufius/vertminer-gpu.git

release notes:

Code:

Version 0.5.3 - 2 February 2014
- changed automatic TC calculation (again but still not finished / perfect...)
- increased max intensity to 21
- shaders are now used for intensity calculation
  --> option shaders is set: intensity calculation tries to align to shaders count (can increase performance but also decrease with low intensity)
  --> shaders NOT set: old cgminer intensity calculation is used
- opencl changed to keep speed with adaptive nfactor
- introduced first time dependent nfactor changes in code (not finally done yet)
- fix for ADL with R9 cards

Important: the automatic TC calculation is only performed if you do not set TC manually and this is only an estimation what could be the best.
Manual tuning TC is in most cases the best you can do.

3) Thirdly you will need a GPU (of course), as well as A MINIMUM OF 4GB OF RAM(this is not optional!!!). This is where I had all my problems before. I was running this miner with only 2gb of ram in my system. If you do that you will get tons of Hardware Errors(HW)/Rejected shares, and you wont be able to go above Intensity level of "-I 12". As well as you cant have a Thread Concurrency(TC) that exceeds 6,000. I was only getting a total of 200 Kh/s on my XFX r9 280x. NOW IM GETTINGS 340 KH/s ONCE I PLUGGED IN 8GB INTO MY RIG. SO RAM IS DEFINITELY IMPORTANT. NO ONES SETTINGS WILL WORK FOR YOU IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THIS.

4) Lastly you will need to signup for a pool of your choosing which can be found here: http://vertcoin.com/

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So once you extract the vertminer you then have to go and tweak your settings to best fit your setup. Vertminer gives you both a .bat file and a.conf file EITHER are fine to run the program. I personally use the .bat file to run the miner. To edit either of the files just right click "edit".

Here are my settings for the .bat file. Averaging 340Kh/s on my XFX R9 280x! NO HW(HARDWARE ERRORS)

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A

vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://vertcoinheavyindustries.com:4444 -u xxxx -p xxxxxx -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 --gpu-engine 1000,1000 --thread-concurrency 8193


Please post your settings below and any tips to help new comers! Thanks

Vertcoin all the way!

[JankoSVK]

Any idea why 1 of 4 gpu is all the time disabled ?

vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3340 -u xxxxx.x -p x --auto-fan -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20  --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 95 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 900 --thread-concurrency 8192

Any help ? THX

[HarryPotterCoin]

Any idea why 1 of 4 gpu is all the time disabled ?

vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3340 -u xxxxx.x -p x --auto-fan -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20  --temp-overheat 85 --temp-cutoff 95 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 900 --thread-concurrency 8192

Any help ? THX

Have you tried -w 512 -g 1?

[giantkin]

vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://stratum.ecurie.io:3333 -u giantkin.c1 -p xo -d 1 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8193 -g 2 -I 13 -w 256 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-95 --temp-cutoff 90 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-target 80 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1020 --gpu-powertune -20 --expiry 1 --scan-time 1 --queue 0
pause

3 280's

The above is working getting roughly 330-350 khs    usually.  however they drop to 100 each, then cycle back up. (temp hits 84 at the 350 range)   only 75ish for the 100 range.

Same setup but all one command the system would freeze after 1hr (to 4 hrs)  and need a hard reset.

this setup running an hr so far.


Why the freezing with all in one.

Why the drop in hash.   Im ok with variable speed etc, but it drops so far, seems kinda odd.


(my device 2 runs hotter than the other 2)
device 0 sometimes needs 2x to start up clean.   (this is the monitor device (tho, no monitor atm))

oh i am running 0.5.2   i noticed, so my next step is to update  the version.   

System 
Win 8.1
4gb ram
2 psu's  550, 850 (2 cards)     (maybe i should put all three on the 850)

Thanks
g

Well, somethings came up on their own...

One of the cards Froze up completely.  I had to RMA it to the manufacturer.  (awaiting response still)

Hope they send back

other 2 cards are running great. Lower temps etc.   1400 between them 700 each  (280 powercolors)

Here's mining!

g

[BCMan]

 Running 0.5.3 on both rigs, 2 gb of ram only. No rejects, no hw errors. What I'm doing wrong?   Half of speed with scrypt-n in comparison to normal scrypt. Seems legit.

[Bru]

Hey guys, I can't get my mining going 

I got 2 cards : Gigabyte 280x, Asus R9 290 ref.
I am using vertminer 0.5.2
This is my .bat file :

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://stratum.simplevert.com:3343 -u xxx.worker1 -p x -v 1 -w 256 -I 13,17 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20,-20 --temp-overheat 86 --temp-cutoff 90 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 --gpu-engine 1000,1080 --thread-concurrency 8193,24550

And this is my conf :
{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://simplevert.com:3343",
      "user" : "x",
      "pass" : "PASSWORD"
   }   
]
,
"intensity" : "13,17",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"expiry" : "30",
"scan-time" : "5"
}
http://s15.postimg.org/l855ddkm3/vert.png


The 280x card starts and works (althogh kinda low hashrate at ~300), but the 290 doesn't start as you can see. I tried running 2 instances of vertcoin, same result. Donno what else can I try.
I'm running win 7 x64.