What is the most concise and least confusing tutorial you have found on setting it up with Afterburner?
Now that you mention it, i think i never saw any vega guides using that's using afterburner
What' i've done is pretty simple :
1. Install Blockchain driver
2. Install Afterburner minimum Ver 4.4.0 with vega voltage support
3. Set your voltage/clock/power limit if necessary
4. Switch HBCC toggle ( I was doing it before devcon method was found, and since i'm able to automate it each restart, i dont bother to change)
5. Basic Cast_XMR config...and done
I'm currently at
913 mv
-10% Powlim
Core 1474 Mhz
Mem 970 Mhz
Fan 40%
with average 1991 H/s with 96% accept rate, HBM temp at 72 (without -fastjobswitch)
No 64 bios, no overdriventtol, im not sure about power consumption since i dont any extra power meter around
Can you post your script to automate the hbcc toggle with devcon? I've followed every guide and recommendation and can't for the life of me get it to work after a reboot. Still have to go in and manually switch it through the stupid amd settings gui.
it has been explained in this very thread before. download devcon.exe here:
https[Suspicious link removed]-without-downloading-and-installing-the-entire-windows-driver-kit-100-working-method/
Create a bat file (I'd recommend having Cast XMR, devcon and OverdriveNTool -if you use it, some people dont) in the same directory to make it even easier), launch it every time Windows starts:
Configure automatic loginIf you’re building a dedicated mining rig, then you probably want your mining rig to boot up and start mining automatically, without any user intervention. We’ll need to enable auto-login for that to be possible.
Right-click on the Start Menu and select “Run”. Type “netplwiz” (without the quotes) at the prompt, and click “ok”.
Uncheck the box that says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer”.
Click “Apply”. You’ll be prompted to enter your password to confirm the change.
Configure your miner to start automatically
We want our rig to automatically start mining whenever it’s powered on or rebooted. That way, we keep mining losses to a minimum whenever a power outage occurs, and we don’t have to worry about manually starting it back up in other situations.
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder where you created “mine.bat” in the previous step.
Right-click on your mine.bat file, and pick “Copy”.
Now, navigate to %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (should be something like C:\Users\[YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup).
Right-click anywhere on the empty background of the Startup folder and select “Paste shortcut”.
You should see a shortcut to your mine.bat file appear in the startup folder. Windows should automatically execute it upon bootup.
This is the content of the batch file to keep everything automated at launch:
cd
devcon.exe disable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F"
timeout /t 5
devcon.exe enable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F"
timeout /t 5
Mine.bat (if you have another bat to start mining once this process ends, this is just an example)
To keep everything automated with devcon.exe and any other mining program at startup so no program prompts you to let them run as an administrator, press the Windows key on the keyboard and search for user -or something similar- thus the
Change User Account Control settings program appears, then just launch it and change the slider to
Never notify.
