How to save settings in cgminer ?

[luo demin]

Ive have been though all the cgminer threads and searched but I can't find what I am looking for. Every time I reopen cgminer I have to renter the pool adress and my login info is there a way to save this ?

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[jake262144]

cgminer -c cgminer.conf

There is a whole cgminer thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0
The information you seek is right there, on the FIRST page.

Is there any excuse for your not having made acquaintances with the README file? It contains some very useful tidbits of information and is packaged with cgminer.
After you have familiarized yourself with it, proceed to examples.conf which contains example configuration.
Edit it to suit your needs, save under a different filename, load using the -c parameter when invoking cgminer.

Beware of typos in the config file. Cgminer will just terminate if it cannot parse it.
I'm aware that JSON is a total pain to edit by hand but you'll be doing that just once.

Alternatively, you can press S (as in settings) in the main screen of your configured cgminer, then W (as in write config file), enter a filename and there's your configuration.

[luo demin]

Thank you I had read threw the readme file and must have looked over it I have been using it for months and just been entering everthing over and over again.
   

[jake262144]

...I have been using it for months and just been entering everthing over and over again.

That sounds like exceedingly heavy penance. Absolution is granted. 

[luo demin]

Ok I have my config file saved and I see it in the cgminer folder. How do I implement the config file into the miner so every time it starts up it uses that file?

[jake262144]

Ok I have my config file saved and I see it in the cgminer folder. How do I implement the config file into the miner so every time it starts up it uses that file?

Provided you saved the configuration as my_config.conf, instead of typing "cgminer" to start up the miner try "cgminer -c my_config.conf"
Absolute file path might be required.

[luo demin]

Yes windows thanks for dragging a newbie trough this I appreciate it I will send you a little btc for all your troubble once I get it done.

[jake262144]

Yes windows thanks for dragging a newbie trough this I appreciate it I will send you a little btc for all your troubble once I get it done.

No problem. While cgminer can be a pain to configure, once properly set up it's irreplaceable taking care of your mining, overclocking, and cooling.
Just make sure to set clocks, voltages and temperature ranges to the correct cards and be extra careful if you ever move the cards between slots.

I remember I had to manually set voltages, because - quite counter-intuitively - the default value of 0.000 didn't result in default voltage being applied to each card.
That was a long time ago though and Con might have fixed it by now.

[luo demin]

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Ok here is where I am stuck this is the conf file I made. I can't manage to us the conf file though even trying to boot cgminer with the command line " cgminer -c dom.conf "

It was definitely worth switching to cgminer over guiminer it just has a little learning curve.

[rjk]

If the configuration file is named exactly cgminer.conf, it will be loaded automatically (just found this out myself recently), no need for a -c switch.

[jake262144]

Does cgminer tell you anything on quitting?  Does it grumble about some JSON error or other?

Try either:
   (1) giving cgminer full path to the config file "cgminer -c c:\users\Your_username_here\Desktop\cgminer_directory_name_here\dom.conf"
Or
   (2) rename your config to cgminer.conf and just run "cgminer". This is supposed to work automagically now but I haven't bothered to check whether it actually does. Not under Windows anyway.

If cgminer still isn't satisfied, there is likely a smallest of typoes hiding somewhere inside that file.

EDIT::If you need to post screenshots, don't resize them that small. That's totally illegible.