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Quote from: Turbo4000 on August 26, 2011, 02:54:22 PM

2. The 'Proceed' button on the log in doesn't work. I can click it forever to no avail.

I made some further changes to the beta right now to make sure this won't happen, even if there are problems with the settings.

Quote from: SgtMoth on August 26, 2011, 09:38:50 PM

i wasnt able to get it to work on my 480's either, using guiminer for them....when i clicked to start the log in pop up was totally empty, havent tried the new beta yet

That's the bug a few people have experienced, the blank login window. For some reason it seems the settings can get corrupted. Not sure why. But the beta now should handle it just fine. Although your settings could disappear. I haven't been able to track down the actual source of the settings problems.

Quote from: megabytes on August 27, 2011, 03:05:59 AM

This GUI is incredible! Way smaller barrier to entry than my first few mining attempts. Can't wait to get my hands on a 5850 to give it a serious shot.

Thank you, and welcome on the team.

I'm happy to hear you find the low barrier to entry compelling - I spent a lot of time and thought on that.

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I've been lurking in this forum for a while, but decided to sign up today.

This GUI is incredible! Way smaller barrier to entry than my first few mining attempts. Can't wait to get my hands on a 5850 to give it a serious shot.

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the new one works for me now....i didnt like the newer drivers, im running 270.61

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i wasnt able to get it to work on my 480's either, using guiminer for them....when i clicked to start the log in pop up was totally empty, havent tried the new beta yet

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NOTICE: I just passed 4H logged in, so I should now be able to post in the regular section. I probably won't this one, as I'm reposting there.

According to the logfile, I'm using the 'beta' 1.0 version. I can't make this thing work for the life of me. One of two things happens.

1. I log in successfully, see briefly 'GPU Device 0 has no space left, wating for confirmation' or something like that (it's not there long enough to read), then the screen goes black, and the computer restarts as if it had a BSOD (And windows considers it one, it makes a minidump).
2. The 'Proceed' button on the log in doesn't work. I can click it forever to no avail.

I'm using an AMD Phenom II X4 965 for my CPU and an NVidia GTX 460 as my GPU. The prospect of 100+ MH/s was enticing (I can overclock even higher than the value listed above and still see stability)... but it doesn't look like the client will work.

EDIT: Just noticed this is now popping up whenever I click 'start'

Code:

2011.08.26 [15:55] Unable to load settings: java.io.IOException: For input string: "

EDIT2: It now is claiming my card doesn't support OpenCL... but it certainly does. Both the official page and GPU-Z say it does, at least.

Code:

2011.08.26 [15:59] Device drivers for GeForce GTX 460 (#1) does not support OpenCL 1.1. Unable to detect whether the
work group size is optimal.

What on earth is going on here...?

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Quote from: ToriAmos1963 on August 19, 2011, 09:31:31 AM

For the next update, is it possible to add a minimize to tray option?

Sure, it's now in the beta version as you can see from the miner thread.

Also I have tried to increase performance a bit on Radeon GPUs. The beta should already be a little faster than the regular version, but I'm hoping to improve it further.

Quote from: btcmerchant on August 25, 2011, 01:00:57 AM

Giving you guys a shot. Love the integrated miner, very nice for people just getting into mining. Also be sure to list your site on our merchant directory btcmerchants.com

Thank you and welcome!

Added BitMinter to your directory. Nice website, by the way, just the thing Bitcoin needs. More merchants, and a nice website to find them.

Quote from: supersquish on August 26, 2011, 06:44:18 AM

A great pool in which I have enjoyed using. My thanks to the creator(s?). May the blocks be plentiful

Thank you kindly, sir. Let's hope our luck stays with us.

Quote from: 7empes7 on August 25, 2011, 04:22:25 AM

Ty for the advice. I've overclocked both my cards to 900mHz and the shaders sucessfully unlocked on one using the MSI modified bios. I'm up to 792Mhps... I need to work on my case cooling though for more I think.

That is very nice! The new beta miner could perhaps give you 2 Mhps more. Not much, but it's hard to get more out of the 69xx GPUs than what the miner already does.

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A great pool in which I have enjoyed using. My thanks to the creator(s?). May the blocks be plentiful

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Ty for the advice. I've overclocked both my cards to 900mHz and the shaders sucessfully unlocked on one using the MSI modified bios. I'm up to 792Mhps... I need to work on my case cooling though for more I think.

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btcmerchant

Giving you guys a shot. Love the integrated miner, very nice for people just getting into mining. Also be sure to list your site on our merchant directory btcmerchants.com

Thanks and keep up the great work

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and yet another one, finally some luck!!

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Quote from: SgtMoth on August 23, 2011, 10:59:25 AM

and another one done too!

Yes, that was a lucky couple of blocks. Grin

Quote from: 7empes7 on August 24, 2011, 06:17:30 AM

I just have to say I'm loving your miner! I've just really started getting into mining and after switching to your pool it's been a lot easier to "play" with settings. TY!

I'm using dual 6950s and getting 740mhps. I'm hoping to increase that to 840 as i mess around with tweaks. Grin

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks, and welcome aboard! Simplicity and user-friendliness are some of the things we're going for.

For 6950s you'll want to keep vectors and BFI_INT on. 128 seems like a good starting point for work group size, but you can try some others out too.

For the break interval I have found that using a high value doesn't always play nice with multiple GPUs. One of my machines with 4 GPUs runs very well with 20 ms intervals. I'm considering lowering the default value. But I also have single-GPU systems that like a relatively high value like 50. The difference may also have to do with Windows versus Linux. Anyone else have similar or different experiences with this?

If you are feeling adventurous you may want to experiment with overclocking the GPU. And possibly underclocking memory to reduce temperature.

I am also working on new optimizations to get the hashrate up a little further. More info will follow.

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I just have to say I'm loving your miner! I've just really started getting into mining and after switching to your pool it's been a lot easier to "play" with settings. TY!

I'm using dual 6950s and getting 740mhps. I'm hoping to increase that to 840 as i mess around with tweaks. Grin

Any advice is welcome.

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and another one done too!

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Quote from: SgtMoth on August 23, 2011, 02:05:33 AM

wow, another block done!

Yay

Good work, everyone!

Quote from: ToriAmos1963 on August 19, 2011, 09:31:31 AM

For the next update, is it possible to add a minimize to tray option?

I will look into this.

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wow, another block done!

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The new client looks good. Now I can keep it in performance mode and still be able to see the number of units completed and start/stop the operation.

For the next update, is it possible to add a minimize to tray option?

Thank you for all the work.

Ali

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Some updates to the miner today. Details are in the separate miner thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitminter-client-windowslinuxmac-31163

Hopefully I will be optimizing Radeon 4xxx and 5xxx performance in the next update.

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I posted some ideas for a new reward system at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.457927

Please leave your thoughts on it here or in that thread.

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Some quick updates on the website:

Fixed a bug where some workers would not show in the worker list if they had no shares in the current round. Thanks to Soak for reporting the bug.
Block list now shows the average hashing speed for each block found.
New LCD-display of the pool speed on top of each page (shows as normal text in old browsers)
A "contact" page to send me an email, to make it easier to get help in case of problems

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Quote from: ToriAmos1963 on August 11, 2011, 11:15:08 AM

How is the approximate mint speed calculated? I understand it's just a guess, but was curious to know what factors are taken into consideration. The speed was pretty close when we got paid for the third block, but the fourth block's payment is about 1/3 of what I had expected based on the mint speed. This is probably due do the increase in the number of participant, but my mint speed has not changed.

Approximate speed is calculated from how many proofs-of-work you send in during the time of measurement. For every "work unit" you get from the server there are 2^32 hashes to check. On average 1 of those will be elligible for being submitted back to the server as a proof-of-work.

So if the server sees you sending in 1 proof-of-work (share) every second, it estimates you must be doing 2^32 hashes per second. That's about 4295 Mhps.

For payments that come from a block, what decides the value of a share (proof-of-work) is how many shares there are in total. The first, second and third blocks were lucky and gave high payouts per share, the fourth was unlucky and gave a low payout.

Quote from: Roach III on August 11, 2011, 12:28:16 PM

Hey guys. I just joined with around 580MH/s. Just wanted to try something different than the bland old white box pool.

Welcome to the team, sir. Let us know if you have any problems or suggestions for further improvements of the pool.

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