MoreEpochs mod v2.7 [Claymore ETH miner 15] Win/AMD+Nvidia. 0.6% fee, 600 epochs

[Just_a_miner]

Hello fellow miners. Some of you can remember me from HSRMINER Neoscrypt Fork by Justaminer. I've updated that miner, added new features and fixed bugs without access to source code.

I like Claymore's Eth miner much and used it many times in 2019/2020, so it was sad for me to see how it stopped working because it only supported up to 384 DAG epoch. I decided to see what can be done to solve the problem. After weeks of researching and hard work, the solution is ready:

More Epochs Mod for Claymore Eth Miner v15

If you are unable to run the miner after August Win10 updates, please read this to solve the issue with couple of mouse clicks.

If you are using -rxboost/-strap command-line options and have problems with strap driver not starting after latest Windows updates, please read this to solve the issue.

Features of the mod:

• lowest in the industry 0.6% devfee! (it means that every 95 minutes the miner will mine devfee for 35 seconds).
• command line option "-strap" now works for AMD Polaris GPUs on video drivers 20.5.1+, so now you can get speed increase over Phoenixminer! (check video from "The mod in action" section below)
• support of DAG epochs up to 600 so you can continue to use legendary Claymore ETH miner!
• fixed bugs of the original miner: it was unable to access nvml.dll on Windows 10, so temperature monitoring, fan control and power draw stats were unavailable.
• added support of new Nvidia drivers 460.89+, miner initializes NVML properly with these drivers, so temperature monitoring, fan control and power draw stats are available.
• now miner shows AMD GPUs power draw stats on newer AMD drivers (tested with 20.12.1)
• now miner shows AMD driver version at startup and warns if driver's version is not supported (i.e. lower than 20.5.1)
• now miner saves AMD Polaris GPUs' core and memory clocks/voltages at startup (before applying custom ones with -cclock,-mclock,-cvddc,-mvdcc) and restores it during exit.
• now miner is able to apply -cclock values to Navi GPUs on new video drivers.
• now miner saves AMD Navi GPUs' core clocks/voltages and memory clocks at startup (before applying custom ones with -cclock,-mclock,-cvddc) and restores it during exit.

Currently this mod supports only Windows version of the miner, Nvidia GPUs with at least 6 GB of video memory, and several AMD GPUs with at least 8 GB of video memory: Polaris RX 470,480,570,580,590, Navi RX 5500XT, 5600, 5600XT, 5700, 5700XT, Vega. Please read "AMD GPUs support" section below for details.

Latest mod's version: 2.7

~ Increased maximum number of supported DAG epochs to 600.

The mod in action:

You can see that my mod works on this video: https://vimeo.com/495752694

If you have 8GB AMD Polaris GPU (RX470/480/570/580/590), you can get speed increase over Phoenixminer (+0.6 MH/s per gpu) by using -strap and -rxboost options, example of hashrate you can get for RX580 with my mod https://vimeo.com/533071364 vs Phoenixminer https://vimeo.com/533072304

See full details and screenshots in this msg.

Downloads:

Warning!  MEGA.NZ closed many accounts with miners, including my one. I've reuploaded my mod to github:

https://github.com/just-a-miner/moreepochs/releases

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_of_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.7.zip
SHA256: 97cc16d88282d05f7c086d8c4d384750bd9163bc1c2e411cec041b19e1f318e1

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_of_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.6.zip
SHA256: f2006f4803566bd11cea99cf731844ae7e499d2154db8b3c015ecc76b226e6f0

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_of_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.5.zip
SHA256: aa45e98b92a8299da9f5e0dede7cb1ad42a0cc88520ca18404619ed63e9e5bae

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_for_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.4.zip
SHA256: 6ca9487932702f0c6911a0c45bca21d7babd70ecef479f79e6113a646e042e3a

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_for_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.3.zip
SHA256: 06cf9c4cddde88fda8011989ee868b763c4be00306c9b6925ae758e679a06f2a

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_for_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.2.zip
SHA256: 631a8152fbe9ecf1fd6b0ad0fcde93b8e1822a871ba05894720b6b3d5af7f109

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_for_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.1.zip
SHA256: 1dac907f65aaca8088077c665bc690fecf4d8ab0a25989ae4383d8086642b8bc

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_for_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v2.0.zip
SHA256: c0a852529fd9dc6a36b728d89bd4b73e91751debd85f7e2a785cd23efc4c30fb

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_for_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v1.9.zip
SHA256: 5523631e49f09160499a1ecdcb861f4633fd935c5e76f22e925a573a52b36a6d

How to use:

Unpack the archive and run the miner as you usually do. If the mod will complete its job successfully, you will see green colored message below Claymore's logo:



and now the miner is able to work with DAG epochs up to 600.

If you don't see this message, make sure you are using my original mod from my download link. If it still doesn't work for you, contact me and I will  try  to help you.

AMD GPUs support:

Video drivers:

You should use AMD video driver 20.5.1 or newer (most tests were done on driver 20.12.1), because older drivers can't allocate 4+ GB video buffer
in single chunk and that will prevent the miner from creating 4+ GB DAG.


Issues:

- 8 GB R9 390 doesn't work.

This issue can be fixed in next versions of the mod.


List of working GPUs:

AMD GPUs that work fine (tested on AMD video driver 20.12.1)

- 8 GB AMD Polaris: RX 470, 480, 570, 580, 590
- 8 GB AMD Navi: RX 5500XT, 5600, 5600XT, 5700, 5700XT
- 8+ GB AMD Vega GPUs


"-strap" and "-rxboost" options:

Command line options "-rxboost" and "-strap" (since v2.0 of the mod) works with AMD Polaris GPUs on video drivers 20.5.1+ (tested on AMD video
drivers 20.5.1 and 20.12.1). These options apply fast memory timings and greatly increase mining speed.
If you are going to use these options first time, you will need to do next steps once:

1) run miner as administrator once with "-rxboost 1" option. Miner should automatically uninstall old strap driver and install new one. If miner was unable to do auto uninstall/install of new strap driver, see step 2) and 3).

2) in miner folder go to "\strap_driver" subfolder and run as  admin "uninstall_strap_driver.cmd". This will stop and uninstall old strap
driver if it was installed.

3) run miner as admin with "-driver install" option.

If miner successfully installed new strap driver, you will see next message:

Code:

 Driver installed successfully.

After that you don't need to run miner as administrator anymore and you can use -rxboost and -strap options.

Note that rxboost/straps now apply after DAG generation to avoid possible DAG corruption. When DAG generation is finished and if rxboost/strap applied
successfully, you will see next messages :

Code:

 GPU #x strap "..." is applied successfully
 GPU #x -rxboost option is applied successfully

where x is GPU index that rxboost/strap applied to and "..." is specific strap.


Please be aware that some software can stop straps from working. For example, monitoring tool HwInfo does that, if you started that software then straps won't have effect on mining speed, and you have to completly reboot rig to make them work.


Please note that both "-rxboost" and "-strap" can crash/freeze your rig because not every GPU is able to work with faster timings especially at high memory
clocks. Refer to "Readme!!!.txt" to get more information about how to use -strap and -rxboost.


Compute Mode:

If after installing new AMD driver your AMD GPUs hash at very low speed, e.g. RX 580 shows like 9 MH/s instead of 27-33 MH/s, you need to enable Compute Mode in AMD Drivers. To do this, you need to run the miner as administrator once and after you see message:

Code:

 Press "y" to set Compute Mode and disable CrossFire in AMD drivers for all cards

press y key. After that you should see next message:

Code:

 All AMD cards use Compute Mode now, please reboot the system to apply it.

Exit the miner and reboot your rig. Now you can run miner as usual and your
AMD GPUs should work at full speed.

Cuda 8 and 10:

By default, there is Cuda 8 vesion of file EthDcrMiner64.exe in the root folder of the miner. If you want to use Cuda 10 version of Claymore ETH Miner  (it can give some speed increase), copy cudart64_100.dll and  EthDcrMiner64.exe from the cuda 10 subfolder to the root folder of the miner and overwrite EthDcrMiner64.exe there.

Then you can run the miner as usual and you should see:

 CUDA Driver Version/Runtime Version: xx.x/10.0

As you can see, Runtime Version is 10.0. It means miner uses Cuda 10.0 API.

If you want to get back to Cuda 8, unpack file 'EthDcrMiner64.exe' from the  mod's archive root folder, and copy it to the root folder of the miner, overwriting 'EthDcrMiner64.exe' there.

After that if you'll run the miner you should see:

 CUDA Driver Version/Runtime Version: xx.x/8.0

As you can see, Runtime Version is 8.0. It means miner uses Cuda 8.0 API.

Cuda 8 can be slightly faster on some rigs, and Cuda 10 can be slightly faster on others. You can test both versions on your rig and choose fastest one.

Changelog:

     Version: 2.7

~ Increased maximum number of supported DAG epochs to 600.

     Version: 2.6

~ Added unsigned version of strap driver that can work with Windows Update KB5004237. Unsigned driver requires Windows Test Mode.
  To enable Windows Test Mode make sure that "Secure Boot" is disabled in UEFI BIOS, then run "Enable_Windows_TestMode.cmd" from
  "strap_driver" folder in miner's archive as admin and reboot rig.
  To install unsigned strap driver run "install_Unsigned_strap_driver.cmd" (don't run as admin, it will ask for elevation after run).
  You can also install unsigned strap driver manually by running miner as admin with "-driver install_test" option.

     Version: 2.5

~ Devfee is reduced to lowest in the industry 0.6% ! (it means that every 95 minutes the miner will mine devfee for 35 seconds).

~ Now miner applies straps only once after first DAG generation at start, and doesn't reapply straps again in case of epoch's change during mining to
  increase stability.

     Version: 2.4

~ Improved straps apply method for Polaris GPUs. Most issues when miner reports that strap was applied successfully but hash speed doesn't increase are solved. Custom memory timing level that was set in AMD Software (Wattman) doesn't affect straps apply success anymore.

~ Now miner warns if Compute Mode is not enabled for AMD GPUs.

     Version: 2.3

~ Now miner saves AMD Navi GPUs' core clocks/voltages and memory clocks at startup (before applying custom ones with -cclock,-mclock,-cvddc)
  and restores it during exit.

~ Fixed bug that can occur during save/restore of clocks/voltages for AMD Polaris GPUs.

     Version: 2.2

~ Now miner saves AMD Polaris GPUs' core and memory clocks/voltages at startup (before applying custom ones with -cclock,-mclock,-cvddc,-mvdcc)
  and restores it during exit.

~ Now miner shows AMD driver version at startup and warns if it's not supported (i.e. lower than 20.5.1).

~ Fixed bug of original miner with applying -cclock values to Navi GPUs on new video drivers.

~ Several minor fixes.

     Version: 2.1

~ Changed behavior of "-driver uninstall" option. By default, miner also tries to disable testsigning mode during strap driver uninstall. This
  often leads to error on systems with SecureBoot enabled and prevents miner from uninstalling strap driver. Now when miner started with
  "-driver uninstall" option, it only uninstalls strap driver without trying to disable testsigning mode.

~ Command line option "-mode" now has default value of 1, which means that if this option is not specified, dual-mining mode is disabled by default
  and miner works in ETH-only mining mode. This is usefull for AMD GPUs (Polaris), because allow miner to get best mining speed by either automatic or
  manual fine-tuning of -dcri values.

~ Added messages that straps/rxboost will be applied after DAG generation if strap/rxboost options used. Remade several messages that miner
  displays in case of error during installing/uninstalling strap driver to give user more clear instructions.

~ Several small fixes.

     Version: 2.0

~ Command line option "-strap" now works for AMD Polaris GPUs with video drivers 20.5.1+ (most tests were done on 20.5.1 and 20.12.1).
    Read "AMD GPUs support" section for details.

     Version: 1.9

~  Fixed issue with incorrect shares on 8+ GB Vega AMD GPUs.

     Version: 1.8

~ Fixed issue with incorrect shares on 8 GB Polaris AMD GPUs: RX 470, 480, 570, 580 (tested on AMD video driver 20.12.1).
~ Command line option "-rxboost 1" works fine with Polaris AMD GPUs (tested on AMD video driver 20.12.1). For now avoid using "-strap" command line
   option for AMD GPUs, it will crash rig. This problem will be fixed in next versions of the mod.

     Version: 1.7

~ now miner shows AMD GPUs power draw stats on newer AMD drivers (tested with 20.12.1)

     Version: 1.6

~ Improved devfee connection handling. Reduced retry delay to 1 second between connection attempts to other devfee pools if miner can't connect to default devfee pool when devfee starts.
    Reduced retry delay to 1 second between connection attempts to other devfee pools if miner lost connection to devfee pool during mining devfee.

~ several minor bug fixes and improvements

     Version: 1.5

~ Fixed issue with incorrect shares on Navi AMD GPUs. Other AMD GPUs will be addressed in next versions of the mod.

     Version: 1.4

~ Added support for Nvidia drivers 460.89+, now the miner initializes NVML properly with these drivers, so temperature
   monitoring, fan control and power draw stats are available.

     Version: 1.3

~ Fixed Claymore's bug that lead to error "NVIDIA NVML library not found, temperature monitoring for NVIDIA GPUs disabled" on  Windows 10.
   Nvidia driver 456.71 is tested on Windows 10 and shows temperature, fan speed, power draw of Nvidia GPUSs, and allow to control GPUs fans.
   Nvidia driver 460.89 still gives the error "NVML API: Init Error 1" - this will be fixed in next releases of the mod.
  
     Version: 1.2

~ Several AMD GPUs are now enabled to work with DAG epochs 385+ :
   R470/R480, Vega, Navi. This is test support, please report any problems.

     Version: 1.1

~ added support of Cuda 10 EthDcrMiner64.exe

~ fixed bug with buffer allocation for DAG epochs 388+

     Version: 1.0

~ First version, supports only Cuda 8 EthDcrMiner64.exe and Nvidia GPUs.

My reward:

Several people asked me about devfee in this mod, and I want to explain what is my reward for creating and supporting it. In this mod I've done huge amount of unique work from the start and even more work afterwards as I continue to suport and improve it for several months, so people can continue to use legendary Claymore miner. As a reward for that hard work which as I hope will help many people, I pointed devfee to my eth wallet. This will support me and let me to invest more time into development of future versions of this mod. I think this is fair, because for some reason original developer disappeared, his miner stopped working and so devfee mining to his wallets stopped too anyway. Size of devfee is reduced, it's now lowest in the industry 0.6% ! It means that every 95 minutes the miner will mine devfee for 35 seconds.

Future plans:

Feature versions of this mod will have support of Linux version of the miner.


Enjoy!

[Just_a_miner]

I know it was a little late release, but I did my best.

[realmagic]

I checked it in a rig with 1080ti's. Works. Thank you) But the t-rex miner 19.4 cuda 9.1 gives me same MH from the card. The original claymore 15 gave more. It probably used cuda 9

[batsonxl]

thanks for hard work please AMD very important, add amd support under windows you king man

[dedizones]

thanks for hard work please AMD very important, add amd support under windows you king man

Yes Add AMD support

[qwick745]

Hi Just_a_miner - I know with the HSRMINER that you'd also made it devfee free - is the devfee portion unchanged on this version of claymore, gone, or pointed somewhere else?

Seems to be working fine with my nvidia gpu's after just a few minutes. Similar to others I'd love to run it with AMD gpu's as well. Thanks!

[Just_a_miner]

I checked it in a rig with 1080ti's. Works. Thank you) But the t-rex miner 19.4 cuda 9.1 gives me same MH from the card. The original claymore 15 gave more. It probably used cuda 9

Thanks for the feedback. There are two Cuda versions in Claymore's archive. Cuda 8 version is in root folder (EthDcrMiner64.exe and cudart64_80.dll) and Cuda 10 version is in 'cuda 10' subfolder (EthDcrMiner64.exe and cudart64_100.dll). To change Cuda version to 10 you had manually copy .exe and .dll from 'cuda 10' subfolder to root folder and overwrite Cuda 8's .exe and .dll there. I removed 'cuda 10' subfolder from the archive because my mod doesn't support it yet.

So, may be you used cuda 10 version of EthDcrMiner64.exe before so it gave you more Mhs. I will add support of Cuda 10 EthDcrMiner64.exe in next version of my mod.

[P00P135]

Why would anyone use this sketchy stuff when there are perfectly working miners out there?

[Just_a_miner]

thanks for hard work please AMD very important, add amd support under windows you king man

Yes Add AMD support

Thank you for your kind words  I will try to do that.

[Just_a_miner]

Hi Just_a_miner - I know with the HSRMINER that you'd also made it devfee free - is the devfee portion unchanged on this version of claymore, gone, or pointed somewhere else?

HSRMINER Fork was devfee free only at the beggining of development. After many improvements I've added devfee to the HSRMINER Fork.
In this mod I've done huge amount of unique work from the start, so people can use this legendary miner again. As a reward for that hard work which as I hope will help many people, I pointed devfee to my eth wallet. I think this is fair, because for some reason original developer disappeared, his miner stopped working and so devfee mining to his wallets stopped too anyway.

Seems to be working fine with my nvidia gpu's after just a few minutes. Similar to others I'd love to run it with AMD gpu's as well. Thanks!

Thank you, I will try to add AMD support.

[Just_a_miner]

Why would anyone use this sketchy stuff when there are perfectly working miners out there?

I'm not agree with the "sketchy stuff" part, but I understand that people can be suspicious. As for the reasons for using my mod, there are plenty, but I think main reason is that this is legendary miner people loved to use, and with my mod they have unique opportunity to continue to use it.

[BlackJackDev]

Hello fellow miners. Some of you can remember me from HSRMINER Neoscrypt Fork by Justaminer. I've updated that miner, added new features and fixed bugs without access to source code.

I like Claymore's Eth miner much and used it many times in 2019/2020, so it was sad for me to see how it stops working.
I decided to see what can be done to solve the problem. After two weeks of researching and hard work, the solution is ready:

More Epochs mod v1.0 for Claymore Eth Miner v15

This mod fixes Claymore ETH Miner v15.0 so you can use it after epoch 384.
For now mod supports only Cuda 8 Windows version of the miner and Nvidia GPUs.

The mod in action:

You can see how my mod works on this video: https://vimeo.com/495752694
You can also download this video from my mega.nz folder, name of the file is MoreEpochs_How_it_works.mp4

Downloads:

Mega.nz: https://mega.nz/folder/dNlw2Lzb#7hVfm7oADQV2wMLqVi4erQ

Checksum for MoreEpochs_Mod_of_Claymore_ETH_Miner_v15Win_by_JustAMiner_v1.0.zip
SHA256: 0ed0ddc8f49e5a815545c726e34a81d5364a0205b7e65a5992459581d15c01f8

How to use:

Unpack the archive and run the miner as you usually do. If the mod will complete its job successfully, you will see green colored message  below Claymore's logo:



and the miner will work after epoch 384.

If you don't see this message, make sure you are using my original mod from my download link. If it still doesn't work for you, contact me and I will  try to help you.

Future plans:

Feature versions of the mod will have suport for Cuda 10 EthDcrMiner64.exe, Linux version of the miner, hopefully AMD GPUs and more.

Enjoy!

Hi, can you support Hawaii AMD Radeon R9 290 4Gb cards ?

[batsonxl]

Why would anyone use this sketchy stuff when there are perfectly working miners out there?

I'm not agree with the "sketchy stuff" part, but I understand that people can be suspicious. As for the reasons for using my mod, there are plenty, but I think main reason is that this is legendary miner people loved to use, and with my mod they have unique opportunity to continue to use it.

dont pay attantion, there will be always comment in every types. you did right thing nothing wrong with it, keep great working. looking forward for devolpments, happy new year

[DrX]

Is there a devfee for you?

Would be nice if you explain little bit what this mod does?
If no devfee, why not open source?

[EMOTPHCM]

19:28:21:717   fd8   ETH: 12/31/20-19:28:21 - New job from asia.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20535
19:28:21:718   fd8   target: 0x000000007fff7ffe (diff: 8590MH), epoch 384(4.00GB)
19:28:21:743   fd8   ETH - Total Speed: 20.107 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:00
19:28:21:749   fd8   ETH: GPU0 2.515 Mh/s, GPU1 2.516 Mh/s, GPU2 2.511 Mh/s, GPU3 2.515 Mh/s, GPU4 2.515 Mh/s, GPU5 2.515 Mh/s, GPU6 2.515 Mh/s, GPU7 2.506 Mh/s
19:28:33:390   1590   Quit, please wait...
Why am I only 2mh? What did I do wrong

[batsonxl]

19:28:21:717   fd8   ETH: 12/31/20-19:28:21 - New job from asia.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20535
19:28:21:718   fd8   target: 0x000000007fff7ffe (diff: 8590MH), epoch 384(4.00GB)
19:28:21:743   fd8   ETH - Total Speed: 20.107 Mh/s, Total Shares: 0, Rejected: 0, Time: 00:00
19:28:21:749   fd8   ETH: GPU0 2.515 Mh/s, GPU1 2.516 Mh/s, GPU2 2.511 Mh/s, GPU3 2.515 Mh/s, GPU4 2.515 Mh/s, GPU5 2.515 Mh/s, GPU6 2.515 Mh/s, GPU7 2.506 Mh/s
19:28:33:390   1590   Quit, please wait...
Why am I only 2mh? What did I do wrong

what cards are they?

[EMOTPHCM]

570 8g power colo vram samsung

[batsonxl]

570 8g power colo vram samsung

devoloper said it is not ready for AMD yet. am waiting too for AMD release,

[EMOTPHCM]

ok thanks

[Just_a_miner]

Is there a devfee for you?

Would be nice if you explain little bit what this mod does?
If no devfee, why not open source?

Hello, yes there is devfee for me:

Hi Just_a_miner - I know with the HSRMINER that you'd also made it devfee free - is the devfee portion unchanged on this version of claymore, gone, or pointed somewhere else?

HSRMINER Fork was devfee free only at the beggining of development. After many improvements I've added devfee to the HSRMINER Fork.
In this mod I've done huge amount of unique work from the start, so people can use this legendary miner again. As a reward for that hard work which as I hope will help many people, I pointed devfee to my eth wallet. I think this is fair, because for some reason original developer disappeared, his miner stopped working and so devfee mining to his wallets stopped too anyway.

For now mod adds support of epochs 385+ for Claymore ETH miner. But only Cuda 8 version of Claymore miner supported, only Nvidia gpus and only Windows version. In future versions of my mod I'm going to add support of Cuda10 for Nvidia gpus, support for Linux version and support of AMD gpus.