GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum!

[synthman]

I believe the worker username is username.worker - the period there is very important.

Works with the dot. Thanks mate.

[berate48]

Hi, I'm running an ATI 4870 with the very latest Catalyst+Stream SDK drivers.

The instant I clicked the exe, a blue screen of death came up saying something was wrong with atikmpag.sys.

Error is listed as:

Fault bucket X64_0x116_TdrBCR:2_Tdr:2_IMAGE_atikmpag.sys, type 0

This happen to anyone else? Any solution?

[TiagoTiago]

When are you gonna release a version with the new deepbit address?

What new deepbit address...

Setting up software
GPU/CPU :: m0mchil's python miner
Example:
poclbm.exe -d1 --host=pit.deepbit.net --port=8332 [email protected] --pass=password

GPU/CPU :: DiabloMiner java miner
Example:
java -cp target\libs\*;target\DiabloMiner-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -Djava.library.path=target\libs\natives\windows com.diablominer.DiabloMiner.DiabloMiner -u [email protected] -p password -o pit.deepbit.net -r 8332 -g 5

Windows Example:
DiabloMiner-Windows.exe -u [email protected] -p password -o pit.deepbit.net -r 8332

CPU :: Ufasoft's SSE2 miner
Example:
bitcoin-miner.exe -a 5 -o http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 -u [email protected] -p password
GPU :: Phoenix miner
Example:
phoenix -u http://[email protected]:password@pit.deepbit.net:8332 -k poclbm DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=128 AGGRESSION=11

(my emphasis)

[piemaker16]

my CPU won't even come up and just says connecting for ever.

ONLY says no OpenCL Devices in the menu is this wrong?

Aspire 4741G
Intel Core i5-450M processor

Oh and tryed with BTCGuild with correct information

AND for GPU it won't show up either. i think i have open cl how do i check

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
(up to 2746MB TurboCache

[Spectro]

Every time I stop mining, my display driver crashes. How can I fix this?

[SebastianJu]

Im testing GUIMiner the first time but cant make it work with BTC Guild. It works fine when I use the normal Bitcoin Client without the GUIMiner.

I created an account at BTC Guild, put in my ID, created a Worker and locked the wallet. I took the worker name and put it int GUIMiner at Username. Then the workerpassword at password. I clicked refresh balance and added the API-String. No error. API seems to work. But when I click start it only says connecting without doing anything. No errormessage in console. I logged out in browser at BTC Guild but no change.

I dont know whats wrong...

[ChemicalOli]

The -s feature is very attractive to me but unfortunately doesn't work. When I start the miner it gets as far as "Starting..." then just waits forever. Trying to manually start poclbm as follows...

poclbm.exe --user=XXXXX --pass=XXXXX -o http://bitcoins.lc -p 8332 -d0 --verbose -s 0.01

results in an error message....

poclbm.exe: error: no such option: -s

So it appears poclbm does not implement the -s feature.

[SebastianJu]

Ok, I got it... I didnt realize that you cant run the software with the default tab...

[compro01]

The -s feature is very attractive to me but unfortunately doesn't work. When I start the miner it gets as far as "Starting..." then just waits forever. Trying to manually start poclbm as follows...

poclbm.exe --user=XXXXX --pass=XXXXX -o http://bitcoins.lc -p 8332 -d0 --verbose -s 0.01

results in an error message....

poclbm.exe: error: no such option: -s

So it appears poclbm does not implement the -s feature.

you must be running an older version of the miner.  it was just added a couple weeks ago.

[DiB]

I don't really understand the -f flag. Could someone explain in plain to me?

it's basically the miner's priority setting.  the lower you set it, the higher the priority.  setting it to highest priority (-f 1) will generally eek out a little bit more hashing (5-10%), at the cost of slowing everything else to a crawl, whereas setting it lower will slow hashing a bit, but maintain responsiveness.

i run mine at -f 240 and it results in no performance hit in gaming.

Thank you for this concise explanation, it helped a lot.

[SebastianJu]

I have 1,7MH/s with the standard Bitcoin-Client. But when using GUIMiner in Solomode or with BTC Guild i only have 1.1MH/s. I already tried stopping and adding the extra flags "-f 2" but no change. Is that normal?

[Veldy]

I just got my new cards: 2x HD 6950 2GB flashed to 6970. Got them up and running at stock (800/1250) @ 300-350 Mhash/s

any tips for flags?

Running catalyst 11.5b or whatever newest on guru3d is.

try with and without vectorization which is -v
and the rest -w64 -f1

one of my machines does better with vectors and the other without them...almost the same hardware and same software packages

I would use -v -w 128 without hesitation.  Consider starting with a higher value such as -f 60 for a work station used for other things or -f 30 for a dedicated machine.  Then, after a time, if all is well, lower the -f value in 5 or 10 increments and again let it go for a time.  I have found that even on my dedicated windows machines [one Win7 x64 and one Vista x64 with Catalyst 11.5], that -f 1 sometimes causes a lock up if you login to your locked console [which you should be locking] and as the monitor powers up and the screen comes to life and I moved the mouse too quickly ... boom.   Totally frozen.  Actually, I think it was still mining, but there was nothing that could be done with the computer until I power cycled it [once, pressing power teased the OS into a graceful shutdown, but the other time, I had to hard power cycle].  So, careful with starting with too low a value for -f; I decided on -f 10 on my dedicated machines since any differences going to -f 1 were pretty much neglible.  Also, turn Aero off for your dedicated machines and even your multiple use machine if you don't mind having it off [I kind of like it and find it useful and productive as I can see through the window borders meaning I can make just a little better use of my real estate or other niceties that transparency can provide].

BTW ... I use -f 30 for my workstation [which gets used all day for work].  I think it would work even lower [although I use poclbm command line, not the GUIMiner].  For 69xx series, I recommend using poclbm executable and not phoenix.  But for 58xx series [and probably 59xx series], I suggest using phoenix using the phatk kernel as the difference in hash rate [more than 3% on my 5850 cards] more than makes up for the stale shares issue with phoenix [which I hope they fix soon].

[liveblues]

a'ight questions:

(yes I read through this first)

1)I am assuming that the gui miner is intelligent nuff to pick up my wallet ID from my Bitcoin client?
 - have been mining for a month now, I know it takes months solo but just wanted to make sure I didnt miss an input box where I am supposed to put my wallet id, and months of GPU power go bye bye

2) why does it show difficulty 1? the calculater pulls a difficulty value of 434882.72175 atm, shouldnt my miner be on the same level?

cheers
blues

[Veldy]

a'ight questions:

(yes I read through this first)

1)I am assuming that the gui miner is intelligent nuff to pick up my wallet ID from my Bitcoin client?
 - have been mining for a month now, I know it takes months solo but just wanted to make sure I didnt miss an input box where I am supposed to put my wallet id, and months of GPU power go bye bye

2) why does it show difficulty 1? the calculater pulls a difficulty value of 434882.72175 atm, shouldnt my miner be on the same level?

cheers
blues

If you are mining solo, then your bitcoin client will pull down the entire block to work on.  Difficulty determines the size of the block [on average].  Your miner is dumb and doesn't care.  Don't worry what your miner says about difficulty [speaking of, what miner does display difficulty?].

Your bitcoin client always has a "default" address shown in the main window.  You can create a new one at any time or simply pull up an existing one from your address book.   That is where your payment will be sent.

[SebastianJu]

I found that rpcminer-4way was the problem that resulted in only 1.1MHash/s. When using rpcminer-cpu.exe it runs with 1.8MHash/s.

But still i think something is wrong.

I have a Geforce 9600M GT which should be capable of Cuda. I tested with GPU Caps Viewer and it should be enabled. But i think its only my CPU that is working not my GPU.

When i run the normal bitcoin-client i can set the number of processors that should hash. I have a dualcore CPU. When I set the number of cpu-cores used to 1 then... I have around half the MHash/s. Taskmanager shows 3/4 of cpu used while it was 100% before.

When looking into this list to find my GPU: http://pastebin.com/AvymGnMJ there are no M-Version of it which is the portable Version of the GPU but the Desktopversion 9600 GT. And this version should make 15.66 MHash/s. So probably my GPU doesnt do anything.

Why is that? Or did I interprete something wrong?

Whatever Extra Flag im trying to set doesnt have an effect it seems.

While I have a NVidia I should use rpcminer-cuda.exe isnt it? But when I do this GUIMiner pretends to work but I think it doesnt work. Because when I run -cpu.exe I get 1.8 to 1.7MHash/s and the value is changing. But when I use the cuda.exe after that it looks like its working but only shows the last working MHash/s-Number. 1.8MHash/s. It doesnt change. When I ran 4way.exe before that... and 4way is slower with 1.1MHash/s and run cuda.exe afterwards it shows constantly 1.1MHash/s. Thats probably not correct. So it looks like its doing something but it doesnt. And CUDA doesnt work too I think.

Someone nows whats happening?

[DrReaper]

How can I completely uninstall Guiminer to reinstall? Every time I stop mining it crashes my computer. My Wifes computer which is an exact hardware copy of mine works fine. Mine worked until the other day then it will start and mine but won't pause. It locks up the time on the system. Complete freeze on pause or stop.
I have deleted appdata, roaming, bitcoin, I have deleted the GUIminer folder. I am missing some files somewhere. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

[liveblues]

a'ight questions:

(yes I read through this first)

1)I am assuming that the gui miner is intelligent nuff to pick up my wallet ID from my Bitcoin client?
 - have been mining for a month now, I know it takes months solo but just wanted to make sure I didnt miss an input box where I am supposed to put my wallet id, and months of GPU power go bye bye

2) why does it show difficulty 1? the calculater pulls a difficulty value of 434882.72175 atm, shouldnt my miner be on the same level?

cheers
blues

If you are mining solo, then your bitcoin client will pull down the entire block to work on.  Difficulty determines the size of the block [on average].  Your miner is dumb and doesn't care.  Don't worry what your miner says about difficulty [speaking of, what miner does display difficulty?].

Your bitcoin client always has a "default" address shown in the main window.  You can create a new one at any time or simply pull up an existing one from your address book.   That is where your payment will be sent.

hey mate

if I run the GUIminer (build 2011-5-21) in the solo mode, it will show Difficulty: <value> in the bottom.

I am aware that the "core" bitcoin client has a default address inbuilt, I just wanted to confirm that once the guiminer solves a block, it communicates properly with the original client and credits me on my default wallet id. I simply dont know the event (I am assuming the original bitcoin client shows me 50 credit ) that will happen once I solve something successfully.

[Veldy]

I found that rpcminer-4way was the problem that resulted in only 1.1MHash/s. When using rpcminer-cpu.exe it runs with 1.8MHash/s.

But still i think something is wrong.

I have a Geforce 9600M GT which should be capable of Cuda. I tested with GPU Caps Viewer and it should be enabled. But i think its only my CPU that is working not my GPU.

When i run the normal bitcoin-client i can set the number of processors that should hash. I have a dualcore CPU. When I set the number of cpu-cores used to 1 then... I have around half the MHash/s. Taskmanager shows 3/4 of cpu used while it was 100% before.

When looking into this list to find my GPU: http://pastebin.com/AvymGnMJ there are no M-Version of it which is the portable Version of the GPU but the Desktopversion 9600 GT. And this version should make 15.66 MHash/s. So probably my GPU doesnt do anything.

Why is that? Or did I interprete something wrong?

Whatever Extra Flag im trying to set doesnt have an effect it seems.

While I have a NVidia I should use rpcminer-cuda.exe isnt it? But when I do this GUIMiner pretends to work but I think it doesnt work. Because when I run -cpu.exe I get 1.8 to 1.7MHash/s and the value is changing. But when I use the cuda.exe after that it looks like its working but only shows the last working MHash/s-Number. 1.8MHash/s. It doesnt change. When I ran 4way.exe before that... and 4way is slower with 1.1MHash/s and run cuda.exe afterwards it shows constantly 1.1MHash/s. Thats probably not correct. So it looks like its doing something but it doesnt. And CUDA doesnt work too I think.

Someone nows whats happening?

I am going to be blunt.  You don't have the hardware to earn via mining.  Your electricity costs will exceed any mining that you can do with that hardware [even if you managed to get the GPU to work].  Further, with a laptop in particular, you will be taxing the hardware, so even if your energy costs were free, I think it more likely that you would ruin your machine [or an expensive part of it] long before you see any payout.   Stop mining.  Do your research and learn how this works.  EVERYTHING you need to know about mining is here in these forums or link to information that will help you.  Difficulty will be going up in several hours (12 perhaps) reducing your ability to mine by more than 1/3 by the look of things. 

Brutal honesty is really best for you.  You can't effectively mine with that hardware.  I am sorry.

[RaTTuS]

How can I completely uninstall Guiminer to reinstall? Every time I stop mining it crashes my computer. My Wifes computer which is an exact hardware copy of mine works fine. Mine worked until the other day then it will start and mine but won't pause. It locks up the time on the system. Complete freeze on pause or stop.
I have deleted appdata, roaming, bitcoin, I have deleted the GUIminer folder. I am missing some files somewhere. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

just remove the directory and everything in it from where you installed it to.

[SebastianJu]

@Veldy

Im aware that I probably wont ever earn anthing but its an interesting topic. I do not really think that my hardware can effectively do mining. I would do better investing in bitcoins I think. What I will do when my Euros are online at MtGox.

But its still interesting and im asking myself why i shouldnt let the GPU run and trying to take part in the lottery while im at my pc. At the end its a lottery and when the hardware is running anyway? I never would let the pc run only for mining.

By the way... i downvolted my gpu and overclocked it with nibitor some time ago. This should, as far as I know, result in a longer lifetime. The damage at overclocking happens because of too high voltages that are erode the chipparts. I did the opposite. Changing the clockrates alone does have a so small effect on lifetime that it doesnt count. The temperature isnt too high too. So I guess my card wont be hurt only by letting it run a bit more when its running anyway... (I still would calculate how much more power it needs then... and how much the more of power would cost.)

So its more interest than the wish to earn money through mining... In my opinion mining isnt worth much anyway because it pays out only because the bitcoins are rising in worth. But when taking that in account miners would have done more when investing the hardwaremoney in bitcoins. So i think the goldrush is over long ago. Traders will probably make more now...

But i still would like to know why my gpu doesnt work. My cousin seems to have the same problem without knowing it. The original bitcoin-client doesnt inform that the gpu doesnt work. I dont know why. So can you tell me why the gpu isnt working?