Topic: Genoil's ZEC miner: AMD ZCash miner for Windows - 0.6 - page 3. (Read 56748 times)

too bad I have to stay with windows, coz I undervolt all my cards, can linux do that? if so I will spend the weekend to change

Youu need to disable popup windows with "close" button which appears on crash through windows group poicies.

is it much easier to just disable the Error reporting and use a simple bat file like

so for whatever reason the program get killed, it will restart again, any flaw in my approach?
Just want to make sure my miners are running continuously 

You can't mine ZEC with that GPU. None of the kernels support pre-GCN

If people are still having issues with crashing, I wrote out a few batch scripts this morning for use on my own mining rigs.

https://github.com/chriswier/zcash-genoil-loop

Two parts:
1.  Disabling Windows' Error Reporting UI so that when the genoil miner crashes it doesn't popup a close window.
2.  Genoil-loop batch script.

do {
    Write-Host "Setting up process" -ForegroundColor Green
    [int]$global:count = 0
    [int]$global:countstr = 0
    [bool]$global:restart = $false
    $pinfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
    $pinfo.FileName = "genoil.exe"
    $pinfo.Arguments = "-c us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -u taddy.worker -p z"
    $pinfo.UseShellExecute = $false
    $pinfo.CreateNoWindow = $false
    $pinfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
    $pinfo.RedirectStandardError = $false
    $process = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process
    $process.StartInfo = $pinfo
 
    $OutEvent = Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $process -EventName OutputDataReceived -Action {
   $global:countstr = 0;
        $stdout = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Data
        Write-Host $stdout
   if ($stdout.Contains(": 0.0S/s"))
        {
            Write-Host "--WARNING. PROCESS WILL BE RESTARTED SOON-- Count error:" $global:count -ForegroundColor Yellow
            $global:count += 1;
        }
        if ($stdout.Contains(": job not found"))
        {
            Write-Host "--WARNING. PROCESS WILL BE RESTARTED SOON-- Count error:" $global:count -ForegroundColor Yellow
            $global:count += 1;
        }
 
        if($global:count -gt 5)
        {
            Write-Host "--KILLING PROCESS AND RESTARTING--" -ForegroundColor Red
            $global:restart = $true
            $global:count = 0
            Stop-Process -processname genoil
        }
    }
    $process.Start()
    $process.BeginOutputReadLine()
    Write-Host "Process started" -ForegroundColor Green
    while (!$process.HasExited)
    {
         
   $global:countstr += 1;
   if ($global:countstr -gt 15)
   {
      $global:restart = $true
           $global:count = 0
                Stop-Process -processname genoil
      break;
   }
   Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
    }
}
while($global:restart)
$OutEvent.Name |
    ForEach-Object {Unregister-Event -SourceIdentifier $_}
Write-Host "Process finished"

Try using 16.9.2 drivers.

Perfect. That is a definitive answer I needed. Now I know it is my machine.

Claymore is coming out with a new miner. Any hope for my device being supported?

The 16.2.1 is the last package with drivers for my card, as it is older.

However, even though its the latest package, the miner doesn't detect my cards. I'm forced to use an earlier one.

I have a Radeon 5870

try this in your bat file
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

Will do. I'll try in a moment.