Topic: GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum! - page 40. (Read 3232159 times)

If you are mining solo, then your bitcoin client will pull down the entire block to work on.  Difficulty determines the size of the block [on average].  Your miner is dumb and doesn't care.  Don't worry what your miner says about difficulty [speaking of, what miner does display difficulty?].

Your bitcoin client always has a "default" address shown in the main window.  You can create a new one at any time or simply pull up an existing one from your address book.   That is where your payment will be sent.

a'ight questions:

(yes I read through this first)

1)I am assuming that the gui miner is intelligent nuff to pick up my wallet ID from my Bitcoin client?
 - have been mining for a month now, I know it takes months solo but just wanted to make sure I didnt miss an input box where I am supposed to put my wallet id, and months of GPU power go bye bye

2) why does it show difficulty 1? the calculater pulls a difficulty value of 434882.72175 atm, shouldnt my miner be on the same level?

cheers
blues

I would use -v -w 128 without hesitation.  Consider starting with a higher value such as -f 60 for a work station used for other things or -f 30 for a dedicated machine.  Then, after a time, if all is well, lower the -f value in 5 or 10 increments and again let it go for a time.  I have found that even on my dedicated windows machines [one Win7 x64 and one Vista x64 with Catalyst 11.5], that -f 1 sometimes causes a lock up if you login to your locked console [which you should be locking] and as the monitor powers up and the screen comes to life and I moved the mouse too quickly ... boom.   Totally frozen.  Actually, I think it was still mining, but there was nothing that could be done with the computer until I power cycled it [once, pressing power teased the OS into a graceful shutdown, but the other time, I had to hard power cycle].  So, careful with starting with too low a value for -f; I decided on -f 10 on my dedicated machines since any differences going to -f 1 were pretty much neglible.  Also, turn Aero off for your dedicated machines and even your multiple use machine if you don't mind having it off [I kind of like it and find it useful and productive as I can see through the window borders meaning I can make just a little better use of my real estate or other niceties that transparency can provide].

BTW ... I use -f 30 for my workstation [which gets used all day for work].  I think it would work even lower [although I use poclbm command line, not the GUIMiner].  For 69xx series, I recommend using poclbm executable and not phoenix.  But for 58xx series [and probably 59xx series], I suggest using phoenix using the phatk kernel as the difference in hash rate [more than 3% on my 5850 cards] more than makes up for the stale shares issue with phoenix [which I hope they fix soon].

I have 1,7MH/s with the standard Bitcoin-Client. But when using GUIMiner in Solomode or with BTC Guild i only have 1.1MH/s. I already tried stopping and adding the extra flags "-f 2" but no change. Is that normal?

Thank you for this concise explanation, it helped a lot.

you must be running an older version of the miner.  it was just added a couple weeks ago.

Ok, I got it... I didnt realize that you cant run the software with the default tab...

The -s feature is very attractive to me but unfortunately doesn't work. When I start the miner it gets as far as "Starting..." then just waits forever. Trying to manually start poclbm as follows...


results in an error message....


So it appears poclbm does not implement the -s feature.

Im testing GUIMiner the first time but cant make it work with BTC Guild. It works fine when I use the normal Bitcoin Client without the GUIMiner.

I created an account at BTC Guild, put in my ID, created a Worker and locked the wallet. I took the worker name and put it int GUIMiner at Username. Then the workerpassword at password. I clicked refresh balance and added the API-String. No error. API seems to work. But when I click start it only says connecting without doing anything. No errormessage in console. I logged out in browser at BTC Guild but no change.

I dont know whats wrong...

Every time I stop mining, my display driver crashes. How can I fix this?

my CPU won't even come up and just says connecting for ever.

ONLY says no OpenCL Devices in the menu is this wrong?

Aspire 4741G
Intel Core i5-450M processor

Oh and tryed with BTCGuild with correct information

AND for GPU it won't show up either. i think i have open cl how do i check

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
(up to 2746MB TurboCache

(my emphasis)

Hi, I'm running an ATI 4870 with the very latest Catalyst+Stream SDK drivers.

The instant I clicked the exe, a blue screen of death came up saying something was wrong with atikmpag.sys.

Error is listed as:


This happen to anyone else? Any solution?

Works with the dot. Thanks mate.

I believe the worker username is username.worker - the period there is very important.

You can use one miner account for both, but its recomended to have separate accounts fot that matter.

What is your url you use in the miner (exclude your password, of course)?

Can't mine at slush's pool. Gives me error during login and username must be in format . What must i do?

after some problems i have found a setup that works for my hardware... Catalyst 11.5 + SDK 2.4 works fine! after 10minutes mining @ slushs pool i have no error msg and 19 shares @ 78MHashe/s (HD4870 Golden Sample GDDR5 1024MB). ok i lost 6Mhashes because with the 10.11 driver i have 84 / 84 MHashes but with many errors.

flags i used now: -v -w64 -f1

try with and without vectorization which is -v
and the rest -w64 -f1

one of my machines does better with vectors and the other without them...almost the same hardware and same software packages