[ANN] sgminer v5 - optimized X11/X13/NeoScrypt/Lyra2RE/etc. kernel-switch miner

[Prelude]

I have some stupid questions. I havent mined anything in a long time. However, I wanted to fire up a rig to see how it does...

But I have seem to gone full retard. I cant get sgminer to 1) show the mining console once it starts and 2) get valid shares. Right now my invalid shares (using LTCRabbit as a test) are hovering around 90%. Something is very wrong

Both rigs that Im testing are Windows (and I literally know almost nothing about Windows). But here are the specs:

Rig 1# - Windows 8.1

2x R9 290x
Catalyst 13.12
SGMiner v5
and BFGMiner

Rig 2 - Windows 7
2x MSI 7950
SGMiner v5

Is there a breakdown for people like me who dont know how to use Windows to get one of these running? I dont care which one. Just want to get it working properly so I can make adjustments, add cards, etc...you know, all the fun stuff that I [can] handle on Linux without help

Why bother with Windows if you're a Linux guy? Get this: http://www.getpimp.org/

[platinum4]

Catalyst 13.12

Nah dude unless you are stilling wanting to mine scrypt, this driver set is going to put you at a disadvantage for other algorithms.

Also I think you need AMD APP SDK 2.9 or 3.0 beta

[Eastwind]

Catalyst 13.12

Nah dude unless you are stilling wanting to mine scrypt, this driver set is going to put you at a disadvantage for other algorithms.

Also I think you need AMD APP SDK 2.9 or 3.0 beta

You need to use 14.6 or higher to get better results.

[Eliovp]

i getting 5.8mhs on qubit 1100/1500

what for a config u use for the 5.8 ??

I am getting 6.72mh/s on a 290x
also 6.90mh/s on 290

Code:

{
"profiles" : [
	{
		"name" : "qubit",
		"xintensity" : "5",
		"gpu-engine": "1040",
		"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
		"algorithm" : "qubitcoin"
	},
],
"worksize": "64",
"hamsi-expand-big" : "7",
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "30-100",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"failover-only" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "96",
"temp-overheat" : "94",
"temp-target" : "85",
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : false,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : false,
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "1",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log-show-date" : true,
"log" : "5",
"net-delay" : true,
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"temp-hysteresis" : "5",
"shares" : "0",
"no-submit-stale" : false,
"no-restart" : false,
"failover-switch-delay" : "30",
"show-coindiff" : true,
"remove-disabled" : true
}

Modified Kernel i assume?

Stock kernel with same settings as you gives me 5.1Mh on a 290..

however with the Darkcoin-mod tricks applied it gets me to that same point

[smokiepot]

however with the Darkcoin-mod tricks applied it gets me to that same point

wich tricks u mean ? i am interrested.

[Eliovp]

however with the Darkcoin-mod tricks applied it gets me to that same point

wich tricks u mean ? i am interrested.

Like i said, the darkcoin-mod tricks :p There use to be a standard darkcoin.cl kernel, with some tricks applied it became darkcoin-mod.cl

That is what i'm talking about

[Eliovp]

just noticed that drivers make a huge difference here!

On stock kernel i got around 5.1Mh max on a 290 with 14.12 drivers. i downgraded those to 14.9 and with the same settings i get up to 6.4Mh on stock kernel!

setting my xintensity at 4096.

Hope this helps others out there

[badman74]

i getting 5.8mhs on qubit 1100/1500

what for a config u use for the 5.8 ??

I am getting 6.72mh/s on a 290x
also 6.90mh/s on 290

Code:

{
"profiles" : [
	{
		"name" : "qubit",
		"xintensity" : "5",
		"gpu-engine": "1040",
		"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
		"algorithm" : "qubitcoin"
	},
],
"worksize": "64",
"hamsi-expand-big" : "7",
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "30-100",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"failover-only" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "96",
"temp-overheat" : "94",
"temp-target" : "85",
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : false,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : false,
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "1",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log-show-date" : true,
"log" : "5",
"net-delay" : true,
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"temp-hysteresis" : "5",
"shares" : "0",
"no-submit-stale" : false,
"no-restart" : false,
"failover-switch-delay" : "30",
"show-coindiff" : true,
"remove-disabled" : true
}

Modified Kernel i assume?

Stock kernel with same settings as you gives me 5.1Mh on a 290..

however with the Darkcoin-mod tricks applied it gets me to that same point

Same kernel that is in sgminer-dev, I modified it quite some time ago with the same things that were done with darkcoin-mod.

[big_coins]

anyone have an example I can use with cgwatcher ?

I have 290 cards.

many thanks

[Neosaan]

Hello. I use a miner SGminer 5.1.1   He is set to multialgo Nice.   But when digging neoscript I get ONLY HW errors. Here is my batch file

 
                "name" : "NiceHash_NeoScrypt_multi",
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:4341",
                "user" : "18NPPbxyJMCqHaBbmbiuiSiqbjtjwNv7qQ",
                "pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=6.2;f5=0;f6=0;f7=0;f8=0.35;f9=0;f10=155;f11=6.5",
                "algorithm" : "neoscrypt",
           "worksize" : "64",
           "intensity" : "13",









, please tell me what I'm doing  wrong? Help pleas...

[Eliovp]

Hello. I use a miner SGminer 5.1.1   He is set to multialgo Nice.   But when digging neoscript I get ONLY HW errors. Here is my batch file

 
                "name" : "NiceHash_NeoScrypt_multi",
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:4341",
                "user" : "18NPPbxyJMCqHaBbmbiuiSiqbjtjwNv7qQ",
                "pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=6.2;f5=0;f6=0;f7=0;f8=0.35;f9=0;f10=155;f11=6.5",
                "algorithm" : "neoscrypt",
           "worksize" : "64",
           "intensity" : "13",









, please tell me what I'm doing  wrong? Help pleas...

Drivers.. i believe (correct me if i'm wrong), everything higher then 14.* will give you hardware errors.. but i could be wrong here..

[MysteryX]

Hello. I use a miner SGminer 5.1.1   He is set to multialgo Nice.   But when digging neoscript I get ONLY HW errors. Here is my batch file

 
                "name" : "NiceHash_NeoScrypt_multi",
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:4341",
                "user" : "18NPPbxyJMCqHaBbmbiuiSiqbjtjwNv7qQ",
                "pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=6.2;f5=0;f6=0;f7=0;f8=0.35;f9=0;f10=155;f11=6.5",
                "algorithm" : "neoscrypt",
           "worksize" : "64",
           "intensity" : "13",









, please tell me what I'm doing  wrong? Help pleas...

Try this.....

"name" : "NiceHash_NeoScrypt_multi",
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:4341",
                "user" : "18NPPbxyJMCqHaBbmbiuiSiqbjtjwNv7qQ",
                "pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=6.2;f5=0;f6=0;f7=0;f8=0.35;f9=0;f10=155;f11=6.5",
                "algorithm" : "neoscrypt",
                "thread-concurrency" : "8192",
                "worksize" : "64",
                "xintensity" : "3",

I use 14.6 drivers and 0 problems.

[Eliovp]

Hello. I use a miner SGminer 5.1.1   He is set to multialgo Nice.   But when digging neoscript I get ONLY HW errors. Here is my batch file

 
                "name" : "NiceHash_NeoScrypt_multi",
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:4341",
                "user" : "18NPPbxyJMCqHaBbmbiuiSiqbjtjwNv7qQ",
                "pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=6.2;f5=0;f6=0;f7=0;f8=0.35;f9=0;f10=155;f11=6.5",
                "algorithm" : "neoscrypt",
           "worksize" : "64",
           "intensity" : "13",









, please tell me what I'm doing  wrong? Help pleas...

Try this.....

"name" : "NiceHash_NeoScrypt_multi",
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.nicehash.com:4341",
                "user" : "18NPPbxyJMCqHaBbmbiuiSiqbjtjwNv7qQ",
                "pass" : "f0=0;f2=0;f3=8.5;f4=6.2;f5=0;f6=0;f7=0;f8=0.35;f9=0;f10=155;f11=6.5",
                "algorithm" : "neoscrypt",
                "thread-concurrency" : "8192",
                "worksize" : "64",
                "xintensity" : "3",

I use 14.6 drivers and 0 problems.

yeah could be that 14.6 is okay, 14.9 and 14.12 are giving HW errors over here though

[Neosaan]

im use 15.3     drivers .....       in trable   .....thenk

[smokiepot]

Have anyone a good config for quarkcoin ? This is my Config an i get only 1.8 mhs with it.

Code:

[code{
"pools" : [
     {
          "name" : "quark",
          "url" : "stratum+tcp://yaamp.com:4033",
          "user" : "FFjYW9bzg4iosZUykNUeEyY4U1CiADa5HC",
          "pass" : "xx",
          "nfactor" : "10",
          "xintensity" : "64",
          "gpu-engine": "1180",
          "gpu-memclock" : "1500",
          "algorithm" : "quarkcoin"
     
     }
],
"worksize": "256",
"hamsi-expand-big" : "7",
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "30-100",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"failover-only" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "96",
"temp-overheat" : "94",
"temp-target" : "80",
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : false,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : false,
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "1",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log-show-date" : true,
"log" : "5",
"net-delay" : true,
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"temp-hysteresis" : "5",
"shares" : "0",
"no-submit-stale" : false,
"no-restart" : false,
"failover-switch-delay" : "30",
"show-coindiff" : true,
"remove-disabled" : true
}]

[Neosaan]

Place the bin please 280X and 270X

[dhsc19]

I've compiled sgminer 5.1.1-3-gc50e3 from Badman74 git source.  When I try to run it for Lyra2RE, I'm getting:

[10:52:08] Unable to open lyra2re.cl for reading!

I checked that my kernel path is correct and there are the files Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl.  So, i renamed Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl to lyra2.cl and lyra2re.cl respectively.  Seems to be working now.  Just giving a heads up.

[platinum4]

I've compiled sgminer 5.1.1-3-gc50e3 from Badman74 git source.  When I try to run it for Lyra2RE, I'm getting:

[10:52:08] Unable to open lyra2re.cl for reading!

I checked that my kernel path is correct and there are the files Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl.  So, i renamed Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl to lyra2.cl and lyra2re.cl respectively.  Seems to be working now.  Just giving a heads up.

I thought that those were aliased already to include lowercase.

[badman74]

I've compiled sgminer 5.1.1-3-gc50e3 from Badman74 git source.  When I try to run it for Lyra2RE, I'm getting:

[10:52:08] Unable to open lyra2re.cl for reading!

I checked that my kernel path is correct and there are the files Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl.  So, i renamed Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl to lyra2.cl and lyra2re.cl respectively.  Seems to be working now.  Just giving a heads up.

I thought that those were aliased already to include lowercase.

I think that is from when i reforked from sgminer-dev, for some reason git does not pay attention to me trying to change case on filenames so i will have to completely delete them and then re-add them to fix it.
Thanks for informing my of that as my local version works fine....
edit: OK it's fixed now

[badman74]

I've compiled sgminer 5.1.1-3-gc50e3 from Badman74 git source.  When I try to run it for Lyra2RE, I'm getting:

[10:52:08] Unable to open lyra2re.cl for reading!

I checked that my kernel path is correct and there are the files Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl.  So, i renamed Lyra2.cl and Lyra2RE.cl to lyra2.cl and lyra2re.cl respectively.  Seems to be working now.  Just giving a heads up.

I thought that those were aliased already to include lowercase.

I think that is from when i reforked from sgminer-dev, for some reason git does not pay attention to me trying to change case on filenames so i will have to completely delete them and then re-add them to fix it.
Thanks for informing my of that as my local version works fine....

By the way, Qubit doesn't have seperate kernels - I think you said you did that? It's not in the official git master.

The version in sgminer-dev is the one i made my changes to. It was merged some time back. Was just some simple changes that had been added to darkcoin-mod that I went though and added to most of the other old kernels that would benefit from it.
changes were added here https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/e79b27080539af2699b28caf148fbbdd0c8283c7 and more extensive here https://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer/commit/e334f11ad824b529d73124eab795afb119abd1cb.
I know its nothing to the stuff you are doing with your kernels, but I really have no programming skills past learning basic on a trs-80 in highschool....