Topic: excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA GPU miner [1.5.6a] - page 30. (Read 179234 times)

hi,
for first awesome project, but I have small problem
I got stable 140 Mh/s with ethereum but with zec I have only 1500 h/s any idea why ?
I have 6x 1060

The GUI has its own thread as i mentioned it couple posts back (so i wouldn't clutter the official miner thread).
And you are wrong about it being an addon, while it doesn't add any speed (seems that's all you care about), it does add quite a bit of extra functionality which utilize what Excavator API has to offer.
Not to mention quite a few features that you wouldn't be able to utilize at all with a .json config file or .bat configuration changes.

Calling people "too lazy/too stupid" to read the manual is just rude, especially considering you didn't "read the manual" for the GUI.

I suppose you could try excavator with one card first...
Also, I am still working on bugs for AMD cards, so I suggest you wait for Version 1.2.11a.

Do I need to remove all VBios mods from my rx470s in order to use the miner? I would love to try the miner but I cannot re-flash 7 cards just to test the hashing rate... If there is another way please let me know.

Nice work!

6x 1070 GTX each at 29MH/s no dual settings.
I get the same hashrate as with claymore. @+400Mem, 85% tdp.

My only issue is that it takes a few min to reach this speed and I fear that nicehash benchmark won't run long enough to use the top speed for the profit calculation 

@cTnko:

Please could you make your own thread of GUI add-on?
Don't get me wrong, maybe it is great piece of code, but it's just add-on for people who are too lazy/too stupid to RTFM.
And of course it does not add any speed or other changes to excavator itself.

People, it is that hard to read API and make text file? :-D

Every time I look into this tread it's 10 posts from happy copy&paste noobs and wow! 1 post from excavator autors about software itself.

I have been bombarded with bug reports and requests for a Linux port...
I will get back to Linux as soon as I take care of critical bugs. I promise!

@Subw
@laik2

Guys, please don't take this the wrong way, i mean this in the nicest way possible and this is just my 50 cents on the matter.

Have you done any long time open source or closed source development? I have done decent amounts of both.
And while i do really enjoy open source software, have you ever considered the downside of it?

When it comes to miners that are OSS, shady people like to create malicious builds that are distributed as malware (that's why so many miners are flagged as malicious in a lot of antiviruses).
Most OSS licenses allow devs to do pretty much anything they want with the code, which is prone to hostile forks of the code and development take-overs.
Imagine you were working actively on your OSS project for couple of months, you earn "funny" amount of funds every month from the donations (since people very rarely donate), then someone forks your code, add couple of features that you simply refuse to have for whatever reason unethical/malicious/dangerous.. etc, suddenly no one cares about your project even though you did all the heavy lifting.
This is also the primary reason so many miners have an 1-2% dev fee (from statistical standpoint this is usually within a margin of error), if you are an active developer creating quality software, you will never get paid enough from donations, "that's why" so many developers are either hired by a company that values their skill and time, or the devs close the source and apply a fee to compensate.
Unless we are talking about a hobby project (which mining software usually isn't) you can't expect for the dev/s to invest hours and hours of development into a project and get "nothing" in return.

For example Excavator, is it the fastest miner currently out there? For some algorithms yes, for some not, but i still use it since all the features it packs outweigh the couple missed hashes.
Does it bother me that it is closed source? Not at all, it does what i need it to do and it does it well.

I would never bash a project for being closed source, are there OSS alternatives? Yes!
You can use whichever software you prefer, just don't expect for the code to magically appear, compile, test and get released, time is the most valuable thing you have and that's what every software has in its heart, a lof of man-hours.

Like i said, this is my 50 cents on the matter, both OSS and closed source development has its positives and negatives, for me personally, its the quality that matters the most.

Sad part here is not that, sad part is that we as miners make no contributions to open source developers and they prefer to write closed source miners or work for big companies who pay them to do so. The saddest part is actually even worse, even if someone tries to do something for the OSS community other developers who already switched to the "dark side" will either not help or will mislead the development process...

it's ridiculous how things changed over last years, once free open source miners now replaced with closed, fee based miners released for windows and on top of it now we should beg for linux releases. sad...

Thank you, that's very sweet to say :-)

@Ginru
For daggerhashimoto only nicehash and suprnova are supported (for now).
For equihash i think all pools are supported (i personally use zcash.flypool.org) and it has been working very well for me.

Edit:
I created a thread that will cover just the Excavator GUI - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/excavator-gui-by-ctnko-miner-interface-for-beginners-and-advanced-users-09-2009353
This should free up this thread from GUI related questions.

I also released a new version of the GUI (again, most changes were requested by either users here or through github ticket system).
Enjoy!

and now with crowd - linux linux linux !!!

can you tell me pools for daggerhashimoto and Equihash?

Hi,
I'm new in using excavator. Im just curious if there is a settings in increasing/decreasing intensity of algo when dual mining?(in claymore +/-)
I'm using only one GTX 1060 for this.
Because when Im doing dual with ETH-SIA, eth hashrate drops from 22.xxMH/s in solo into 10.xx MH/s.
My current config in dual mining:

Another thing, how can you see your projected daily proifit? Because in using NH miner, there's an indication there.

Thanks!

no its not spam, I was implying its gained enough traction to warrant its own thread.  its like a compliment in a way 

Sure, i left the conversation here as i thought i could help both people with GUI and without GUI at the same place, but if its becoming too extensive for the official thread, i will definitely create my own thread.
Sorry for any inconvenience/spam caused

no offense, but maybe you should open a new thread for your GUI support

I think it mostly depends on the algorithm that you are using, are you running daggerhashimoto?

ok, thx its work. So its work only on nicehash and suprnova?

you use job identifier as worker ID and you can set password in pools section
the next version of the GUI will have some of those fields renamed for easier setup for suprnova

I hope this screenshot helps a little