Topic: GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum! - page 65. (Read 3231923 times)
March 13, 2011, 06:08:13 PM
U have to put it in Extra flag.
March 13, 2011, 06:03:43 PM
Just put -v -w128 & mine.
Also remove that extra & mine.
U will see the difference in Mhash/s
Also remove that extra & mine.
U will see the difference in Mhash/s
Im so noobbb
Where i have to put -v -w128 if is not in Extra flags??
Thanks
March 13, 2011, 05:37:50 PM
Just put -v -w128 & mine.
Also remove that extra & mine.
U will see the difference in Mhash/s
Also remove that extra & mine.
U will see the difference in Mhash/s
March 13, 2011, 12:49:53 PM
what is exactly i have to put in "Extra flags:" 
I have an ATI 4980
Thanks
I have an ATI 4980
Thanks
March 13, 2011, 06:40:13 AM
What I meant was that it would be nice to have drop downs or check boxes to select flags to run the miners with.
Also a very important question...
I have a crossfire setup.
I want to be able to run a miner on both GPUs while playing a game, BUT
with one of the miners set to a lower priority than the game.
Basically, Dragon Age II is awesome and I have way more graphical power than I need to play this relatively ugly DX 11 game (relative to Crysis 1)
I can leave one GPU to mine and only mine and have another GPU devote 30% of resources to the game with 70% going to the other miner.
I tried an experiment with running the heaven bechmark demo while running two miners on the cards. Surprisingly my Mh/s dropped only 20% while the benchmark was spittingout beautiful, no gorgeous scenes at around 20 frames per second in a 1024x768 window.
Basically I want to be able to play simpler 3d games while continuing to mine so as to always consume as close to 100% of available GPU resources.
I just can't stand the thought of wasting an entire GPU on a game that doesn't need it. I really don't need MSAA or 8x antialiasing to enjoy my games.
Also a very important question...
I have a crossfire setup.
I want to be able to run a miner on both GPUs while playing a game, BUT
with one of the miners set to a lower priority than the game.
Basically, Dragon Age II is awesome and I have way more graphical power than I need to play this relatively ugly DX 11 game (relative to Crysis 1)
I can leave one GPU to mine and only mine and have another GPU devote 30% of resources to the game with 70% going to the other miner.
I tried an experiment with running the heaven bechmark demo while running two miners on the cards. Surprisingly my Mh/s dropped only 20% while the benchmark was spittingout beautiful, no gorgeous scenes at around 20 frames per second in a 1024x768 window.
Basically I want to be able to play simpler 3d games while continuing to mine so as to always consume as close to 100% of available GPU resources.
I just can't stand the thought of wasting an entire GPU on a game that doesn't need it. I really don't need MSAA or 8x antialiasing to enjoy my games.
March 12, 2011, 12:26:14 PM
You have to try for yourself to see if it results in better performance with your card. -w 64 or 128, with and without -v.
March 12, 2011, 11:58:10 AM
Sorry for bumping, but:
What that mean? Should i add it?
-v -w128 [suggested for Radeons]
What that mean? Should i add it?
March 11, 2011, 04:57:22 PM
Sure, I'll include that in the next version.
can you add timestamps like this in console tab:
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Running command: poclbm.exe --user=
can you add timestamps like this in console tab:
Quote
11/03/2011 17:21:05 Running command: poclbm.exe --user=
March 11, 2011, 01:59:55 PM
Quote
Running command: poclbm.exe --user=
can you add timestamps like this in console tab:
Quote
11/03/2011 17:21:05 Running command: poclbm.exe --user=
March 11, 2011, 01:53:10 PM
-v -w128 [suggested for Radeons]
What that mean? Should i add it?
March 11, 2011, 07:52:09 AM
As someone reading a lot of posts and who is new to the scene, thank you for an excellent alpha gui.
Glad you're enjoying it
The dropbox of common flags is a good idea; I listed the Radeon one in the tooltip because I felt that was the most common case. I found -f1 was hardly even worth using (gives me 184MHash instead of 182MHash) but it could be included. Please add the -4way flag by default to the cpu miners, or have a drop down box of common flags like:
Unfortunately, the -4way flag isn't supported right now, because the miner the GUI uses is poclbm which is purely an OpenCL miner. When you are CPU mining on it, it is actually running OpenCL code on your CPU which is the reason it's not as efficient as code specifically written for CPU. If you ask me it's pretty cool that it works at all
It would be significant work to add a second miner to the GUI that supports 4way - not only do I have to integrate it into the code, I have to keep it updated, test it, and include it in the package. Which is not to say I won't do it - only that as the difficulty increases I question whether CPU mining will be a viable option in the future. Certainly writing lots of code to benefit the poorest miners is a questionable method of getting donations
March 11, 2011, 04:26:47 AM
As someone reading a lot of posts and who is new to the scene, thank you for an excellent alpha gui.
Suggestion:
Please add the -4way flag by default to the cpu miners, or have a drop down box of common flags like:
dropbox:
-4way [SSE2 optmizations]
-v -w128 [suggested for Radeons]
-v -w128 -f1 [if you don't mind desktop lag]
etc.
Thank you!
Donations
19vg91RrXPMdWydgxv4R6TRfMjruVgoG6o
Suggestion:
Please add the -4way flag by default to the cpu miners, or have a drop down box of common flags like:
dropbox:
-4way [SSE2 optmizations]
-v -w128 [suggested for Radeons]
-v -w128 -f1 [if you don't mind desktop lag]
etc.
Thank you!
Donations
19vg91RrXPMdWydgxv4R6TRfMjruVgoG6o
March 11, 2011, 03:53:33 AM
Does anyone know how to limit how much the Miner uses on my GTX 260?
EDIT: Found out I put "-w ##" in extra flags. (I wanted to keep my temps down, I average 61C and generating 30Mhashes)
EDIT: Found out I put "-w ##" in extra flags. (I wanted to keep my temps down, I average 61C and generating 30Mhashes)
Maybe someone could pay you bitcoin for having do Folding@Home ?
30mhash is is really worth it ?
March 08, 2011, 12:47:47 AM
Does anyone know how to limit how much the Miner uses on my GTX 260?
EDIT: Found out I put "-w ##" in extra flags. (I wanted to keep my temps down, I average 61C and generating 30Mhashes)
EDIT: Found out I put "-w ##" in extra flags. (I wanted to keep my temps down, I average 61C and generating 30Mhashes)
March 08, 2011, 12:29:13 AM
Another option...
http://www.overclock.net/folding-home-guides-tutorials/384733-30-second-dummy-plug.html
Hehe, thanks but I already build 5 of those for folding.http://www.overclock.net/folding-home-guides-tutorials/384733-30-second-dummy-plug.html
I had an hdmi plugged into both. /will try again/
Edit : problem was driver clusterfuck
March 07, 2011, 03:44:08 PM
March 07, 2011, 02:29:32 PM
yes, it does,
i guess you haven't plugged a monitor into your 2nd card, you'll need todo that on windows to activate the card in CCC.
give it a try.
i guess you haven't plugged a monitor into your 2nd card, you'll need todo that on windows to activate the card in CCC.
give it a try.
March 07, 2011, 01:58:52 PM
Does it support multiple card ? or am I doing something wrong ?
I have a 4770 and 5870 it only show one "cypress" (the 4770)
I have a 4770 and 5870 it only show one "cypress" (the 4770)
March 07, 2011, 07:59:51 AM
Ah, that makes sense. The GPU miner needs a percent or two of CPU in order to prepare work and send it to the GPU, and if a CPU miner is hogging all the resources then it won't be able to keep the GPU busy.
Ah, I figured it out. For some reason running a cpu miner at the same time caused the speed to drop, but only when the console window running the GPU miner was in the background.
Since the gui didn't have the console window it got treated as always being in the background and wouldn't run at full capacity.
I didn't notice it before because I always had the GPU miner in the foreground.
That's odd... you're using the same flags in both cases? If so, can you try running the poclbm.exe that comes with the GUI and see if that does the same thing? I don't have an Nvidia card to test on but I haven't heard of anyone else with your problem.
Ah, I figured it out. For some reason running a cpu miner at the same time caused the speed to drop, but only when the console window running the GPU miner was in the background.
Since the gui didn't have the console window it got treated as always being in the background and wouldn't run at full capacity.
I didn't notice it before because I always had the GPU miner in the foreground.
March 06, 2011, 11:14:00 PM
That's odd... you're using the same flags in both cases? If so, can you try running the poclbm.exe that comes with the GUI and see if that does the same thing? I don't have an Nvidia card to test on but I haven't heard of anyone else with your problem.
Ah, I figured it out. For some reason running a cpu miner at the same time caused the speed to drop, but only when the console window running the GPU miner was in the background.
Since the gui didn't have the console window it got treated as always being in the background and wouldn't run at full capacity.
I didn't notice it before because I always had the GPU miner in the foreground.
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