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

[Big Bear]

Hello,

I'm running a single 6970 but all I'm getting is 80-80.9 Mhash. Is there some sort of "extra flag" number that I should input to make this go faster?
Thanks

[Serge]

I've been wondering..

I'm running two cards and my CPU is at constant 50% load, eg 1 GPU takes 25% CPU - does anyone know is this normal behavior for GUI miner?

[Justsomeforumuser]

If you want to keep your clocks at a certian level you can just set them with afterburner.

I assume you mean MSI Afterburner?

I tried 2-3 overclocking tools already, the general consensus was: BSOD, less Mhash/s without a reason despite stock/faster speeds (around 10-15 less) and hangs if I open CCC after having used any like that.

So I was hoping to avoid any non-CCC tool.

[Justsomeforumuser]

I've been wondering..

I'm running two cards and my CPU is at constant 50% load, eg 1 GPU takes 25% CPU - does anyone know is this normal behavior for GUI miner?

I am only on one card, but:
Task manager poclbm(the actual client) is using < 2% CPU and guiminer is literally using 0-1%. It should be pure GPU unless you chose another mode I guess ors omething is wrong.

[zimpixa]

Could u add soon hotkeys to stop/start mining? Would be helpful to just click hotkey to stop mining rather then wait till it will refresh with -f0 flag.

[Serge]

I've been wondering..

I'm running two cards and my CPU is at constant 50% load, eg 1 GPU takes 25% CPU - does anyone know is this normal behavior for GUI miner?

I am only on one card, but:
Task manager poclbm(the actual client) is using < 2% CPU and guiminer is literally using 0-1%. It should be pure GPU unless you chose another mode I guess ors omething is wrong.

I have 2 poclbm each running at 25%. System runs very stable but not sure why it eats at cpu.

[nutating]

what does number in () mean under accepted?eom

[Kiv]

Something is off with your setup. Other people have had this issue too and I'm not sure if it was resolved, but you can search the forums or check the FAQ in the first post for a link to more info on it.

I've been wondering..

I'm running two cards and my CPU is at constant 50% load, eg 1 GPU takes 25% CPU - does anyone know is this normal behavior for GUI miner?

I am only on one card, but:
Task manager poclbm(the actual client) is using < 2% CPU and guiminer is literally using 0-1%. It should be pure GPU unless you chose another mode I guess ors omething is wrong.

I have 2 poclbm each running at 25%. System runs very stable but not sure why it eats at cpu.

[Kiv]

1000 (150) means 1000 shares were accepted total, including 150 in the past hour. It just gives you another measure of how fast you are mining. I've added this question to the FAQ.

what does number in () mean under accepted?eom

[BitcoinsWallet]

Kiv, how i can translate the GUI, i want to help.

[Stuee]

I have noticed that whenever I have a webpage with a Flash video open, my GPU throttles down and my Mhash/s falls to about 50%
When I close the page, GPU throttles back up and Mhash/s returns to normal.

If you could find what causes this and add a switch to the GUI that'd be great, because sometimes it's useful to calm my video card down (quiter fan, etc.)

Cheers, Stuee

[compro01]

I have noticed that whenever I have a webpage with a Flash video open, my GPU throttles down and my Mhash/s falls to about 50%
When I close the page, GPU throttles back up and Mhash/s returns to normal.

If you could find what causes this and add a switch to the GUI that'd be great, because sometimes it's useful to calm my video card down (quiter fan, etc.)

Cheers, Stuee

recent versions of flash utilize hardware acceleration on supported graphics cards, which is why the hashrate would drop.  no idea why it would throttle down though, unless the driver is figuring that since the 2D components are active, it can throttle down the shaders.

[gigitrix]

Can you add mtred.com to the pools list? I set it up fine on my machine of course: I just want to see a ton of pools on that list to encourage competition, and help prevent "the Deepbit scenario" 

[Danilo]

Kiv I have a request... If it is possible...

My 5870 stops to mine every 1-2 hours (some hardware failure msg) and all I have to do is to manually click stop/start mining.
Is it possible that miner do it for me, to make an option stop/start mining every x minutes or something???

I think that it will be useful for the others, too. Because some of my friends have the similar issue, miner stops to mine (not so often as mine but every 24-48 hours). And all we have to do is manually click stop/start mining!

Imagine how big problem it can be if it stops to mine during the night or if we are far away from our precious gold diggers

Thanks in advance!

Edit: The message is "VERIFICATION FAILED, CHECK HARDWARE!"

[Kiv]

Are you overclocking your 5870? It is possible to add the setting you want, but better is to fix the error so you don't have to restart it all the time

Kiv I have a request... If it is possible...

My 5870 stops to mine every 1-2 hours (some hardware failure msg) and all I have to do is to manually click stop/start mining.
Is it possible that miner do it for me, to make an option stop/start mining every x minutes or something???

I think that it will be useful for the others, too. Because some of my friends have the similar issue, miner stops to mine (not so often as mine but every 24-48 hours). And all we have to do is manually click stop/start mining!

Imagine how big problem it can be if it stops to mine during the night or if we are far away from our precious gold diggers

Thanks in advance!

Edit: The message is "VERIFICATION FAILED, CHECK HARDWARE!"

[Basiley]

seems like VPU recovery[&related Catalyst GPU driver restart]due to overheating or power supply brownout.
both GPU/Case cooling imrovement and PSU update could  be helpful. less frequently happen due to malfunct motherboard power subsystem[yes, GPU's conume both 3.3V and 12V thru PCI-e slot, too].

[Danilo]

Even better solution if GUI Miner can restart automatically after error, just to do stop/start thing for me.
I tried 5870 in various machines, versions of windows, with default, overclocked, downclocked values... Always the same. And PSU is strong enough.

I'm thinking to use windows task scheduler or similar software to start/stop GUI Miner every 1h or so??? Do you have a better idea?

Thanks for quick reply!

[Basiley]

Even better solution if GUI Miner can restart automatically after error, just to do stop/start thing for me.
I tried 5870 in various machines, versions of windows, with default, overclocked, downclocked values... Always the same. And PSU is strong enough.

I'm thinking to use windows task scheduler or similar software to start/stop GUI Miner every 1h or so??? Do you have a better idea?

Thanks for quick reply!

yes, you can tune gui miner to "AutoStart" mode.
and then start/kill it with Windows task sheduler service.
talking about error - please check you Windows logs[starting from "Applications log" and "System log" one], to be sure, what kind of it.

[Danilo]

It looks like driver restart.

For example if you have GPU with default values and it is 100% stable (mining 24/7 with no errors) - that is good

Even better will be if you overclock GPU by 20% which might get you 50-100 Mhash/s (on some cards), but that would make your card less stable (for example GUI Miner stops every 12 hours). All you need to do is manually click stop/start and miner will continue. And you are mining again 50-100 Mhash/s more then on default.

BUT if you are AFK for a long time and error appears you will not mine at all. That's why I think that it will be very useful for everyone to implement options I mentioned before (no one is mining without errors, miner will stop eventually and someone have to do 2 clicks).

All I'm asking to make miner to stop/start automatically after error like mine or to make option stop/start every x minutes (reseting mining will take less than 5sec).

[JayC]

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong...

I download the latest version of the self-extractive archive, uncompress it to c:\guiminer and run guiminer.exe and get the following error:

"This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect.  Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

I read the README and glanced at the first post...  What am I doing wrong?