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

[Departure]

can someone please confirm that you need atleast 1 CPU core per GPU while mining on windows with GUIminer???

For example if I have 2 6990's which is 4 GPU's does that means I need a 4 core CPU??? or can I run it on duel core CPU(AMD II 260)??

[Dimsum]

You can manually add a pool by editing the servers.ini file in the guiminer directory. I pushed a change out on github with the changes made. On a side note it seems bitcoin.lc is redirecting to bitcoins.lc, which one is correct?

Sorry I meant bitcoins.lc!

[Dimsum]

Anybody have any extra flag values (OpenCL / Phoenix) to keep the GPU say at 50% load or lower allowing someone to use the PC whilst mining?

[Dobrodav]

can someone please confirm that you need atleast 1 CPU core per GPU while mining on windows with GUIminer???

For example if I have 2 6990's which is 4 GPU's does that means I need a 4 core CPU??? or can I run it on duel core CPU(AMD II 260)??

No, you do not need 4 cores. You can affilate all miners to one core - that is why that cpu core affilation was done.

[jurian89]

Anybody have any extra flag values (OpenCL / Phoenix) to keep the GPU say at 50% load or lower allowing someone to use the PC whilst mining?

-f100 works

or -f200 works even better.

works with opencl

[opticbit]

works nice, I've mined a few fractions of a btc and fractions of a namecoin.

I can only do 6mhash.  It was more for me to figure out how to do it so that when I can buy a mining rig I know how.

[Dimsum]

-f100 works

or -f200 works even better.

works with opencl

wow I could kiss you!! Thank you so much! Those figures were wonderful! Now I can mine 24/7 instead of when I only go to bed.

I threw both those values in and got:

-f100 - 197Mhash/s
-f200 - 180Mhash/s

and the Activity indicator on the card flickers around the 90% mark. Just to see that this would work the way I wanted, I let it run and then started a 1080p HD movie and the Mhash/s dropped to compensate for the movie and the activity still flickered between 80-90%. But what I love is I can now do anything while it mines.

I used to use these flags with OpenCL, I have no idea what they do - should I use them with the ones you suggested?

-v -w128

Thanks for your help - really appreciate it!

[jurian89]

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I used to use these flags with OpenCL, I have no idea what they do - should I use them with the ones you suggested?

-v -w128

Thanks for your help - really appreciate it!

You should play a littl with the -f value. You could try anything between -f1 (windows will lag) -f30 (here i can watch 720p) -f100 (1080p) and stuff.

Do you have a HD5XXXX card ? then try -v -w128. If you underclokc memory to 300 mhz then try -v -w256. (downlclocking is possible with afterburner, search msi afteburner in this forum)

If you are happy with my reply, please donate to Kiv, he should recieve more for his work on GUIminer
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@Kiv: Can you maybe add support for this: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19169.0

[Mr2001]

Any chance of changing the BTC Guild preset to work with their new server addresses? I know it's possible to edit servers.ini, or choose "other" and type the hostname, but the balance checking feature stops working when you do that.

[haploid23]

i'm having some problems getting this GUIminer to work. the newest miner won't open on my computer. every time i open, there's a error dialog that pops up saying: "See the logfile C:Users\Username\guiminer\guiminer.exe.log for details", and then the programs just crashes. then once i open that log file to see what's wrong, this is the log:

ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2184, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1678, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1887, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 925, in start_mining
  File "guiminer.py", line 846, in configure_subprocess_poclbm
  File "guiminer.py", line 645, in device_index
AssertionError

what does AssertationError mean? and how can i fix this?

[mjsbuddha]

for the love of god, will this ever have backup pool support...

[haploid23]

for the love of god, will this ever have backup pool support...

you can just set several pools for a single card, but set each pool in different priority with the flags so in case the pool with highest priority goes down, the card will mine for other pools with no slowdown.

[mjsbuddha]

for the love of god, will this ever have backup pool support...

you can just set several pools for a single card, but set each pool in different priority with the flags so in case the pool with highest priority goes down, the card will mine for other pools with no slowdown.

yeah, done that. its not a solution. it drops my hash rate by 10%

[Departure]

Nice work..
here is just some requests if you ever decide to add features

- Backup pool support
- temp monitor for when the cards get too warm then disable GPU until temps go down
- retry connection settings

I know all these features are in phoenix riser, Its just I like the summery page of GUIminer rather than OSD, Also I seem to get about 10 MH/s with GUIminer than phoenix riser, even with using the same settings and phoenix version

[zimpixa]

Code:

2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": Verification failed, check hardware!
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": Traceback (most recent call last):
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 261, in longPollThread
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 224, in request
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": File "httplib.pyo", line 974, in getresponse
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": File "httplib.pyo", line 391, in begin
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": File "httplib.pyo", line 349, in _read_status
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": File "socket.pyo", line 397, in readline
2011-06-23 13:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm": timeout: timed out
2011-06-23 13:44:44: Listener for "BTCGuild poclbm" shutting down

Too much OC'd card or? Was working at 1000 core for 2 days, now this error shows up in less than 2 days at 990 core.

[BitMinerN8]

Has anyone updated the Phoenix 1.48 that comes with GUIMiner 6-14 to Phoenix 1.50? If yes, does it work better? Did you just copy the directories over into the GUIMiner directory?

[fcmatt]

Has anyone updated the Phoenix 1.48 that comes with GUIMiner 6-14 to Phoenix 1.50? If yes, does it work better? Did you just copy the directories over into the GUIMiner directory?

i am curious also but so far have stuck with default miners that guiminer newest release comes with.
if you check out the threads for phoenix for example.. people are having trouble and I have no wish
for my rigs to stop mining for no reason. I can handle a few slight issues right now in the newest guiminer
release.

for example phoenix with phatk showing those odd ascii characters.
phoenix with phatk now showing accepted blocks but I know it is working by checking the pool.

otherwise it just works.

[Endeavour79]

Has anyone updated the Phoenix 1.48 that comes with GUIMiner 6-14 to Phoenix 1.50? If yes, does it work better? Did you just copy the directories over into the GUIMiner directory?

I did but just copying the files in the GUIMiner dir.
There are still some issues with the stats shown by the GUI. You need to use the -v flag to see something happening. But anyway..Phoenix 1.50 works..you just might not see the most actual status.

[goozman96]

I just had some suggestions for improvements to GUI miner for one of your next versions.
These are just suggestions/requests

1. The ability to remember previously used flags. There could just be a drop down menu button next to the text input field.
2. The ability to minimize to the task bar instead of only just the tray.
3. Expanded list of servers of BTC Guild (see website for list of 6 server subdomains)
4.
5. Profit?

[zimpixa]

Added poclbm_phatk version to guiminer folder and new error came up

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 14, in <module>
ImportError: No module named wx

Any idea whats wrong here? I'd like to get it working, cuz Guiminer looks better than AO~ something.