GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum! - page 68.

friendsofkim

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Better change ur graphics card if u want to mine.
The investment u make is worth more than u can think.

Mind me asking what you're earning at the moment with your 6870? I am tempted to buy a better GPU. Hard to know if it's worth the investment if difficulty is going to keep climbing (unpredictably as well.)

dishwara

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U cant do anything with ur 8400 graphics card. i had 9400gt card, mined for more than a month & i was getting 2.4Mhash/s & i over cloaked it to from 550mhz to 771 & got around 3.1Mhash/s. But system is very unstable. & only poclbm can able to mine with out lagging screens.
the total btc i got is less than 2. I did coz, i know i will mine in future, so to understand mining... i mined with that card.
just 3-4 days i got 6870 & getting 220Mhash/s.

Better change ur graphics card if u want to mine.
The investment u make is worth more than u can think.

friendsofkim

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U over cloaked ur graphics card?

Possible - I was getting screen lag while running the miner. Is there a way I can cap the MHash/s?

no_response

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as I saw many people complaining that they want it packed in 1 file
and others that don't have packing software and cba to download and install it

just an idea
or if you want some help I can do it for you

some time ago I used to hardcode an .exe file in another .exe file
it turned out to be quite a neat thing
like : pack several files (no matter what kind of files) into an .exe, then when you run the .exe it unpacks in the current dir or in %temp% and runs the new app

how I did this was store the whole .exe in an array in the source code
then, when run, just save the whole array into a file with extension .exe in binary mode
and we are done.

just my 0.02 btc
if you want it done PM me

dishwara

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Quote from: friendsofkim on March 01, 2011, 11:53:39 AM

Small (and pedantic) question: The status update in the lower left hand corner which tells me the number of shares accepted/rejected seems to come and go. Haven't seen it for a while now - can't see how to turn it back on. Is this intended behaviour or a bug perhaps?

Thanks

U over cloaked ur graphics card?

friendsofkim

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Small (and pedantic) question: The status update in the lower left hand corner which tells me the number of shares accepted/rejected seems to come and go. Haven't seen it for a while now - can't see how to turn it back on. Is this intended behaviour or a bug perhaps?

Thanks

new_in_this

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Quote from: BitLex on March 01, 2011, 10:39:13 AM

no, you don't even need to have a bictoin-client installed if you're running the miner on a pool.

Thanks for info. My error was then probably related to solo operation. (and after thinking, that's obvious

)

Quote from: BitLex on March 01, 2011, 10:39:13 AM

the extra flags are for miner parameters, like threads, frames, worksize and stuff

Cool, thanks, got it

BitLex

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Quote from: friendsofkim on March 01, 2011, 10:06:22 AM

Do I need to have the bitcoin client open for this to work? Sorry for the basic questions.

no, you don't even need to have a bictoin-client installed if you're running the miner on a pool.

Quote from: new_in_this on March 01, 2011, 10:13:27 AM

where i can read/find more about that extra flag field?

the extra flags are for miner parameters, like threads, frames, worksize and stuff

BiggieJohn

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testing this on both my machines. Works great on both.
1 x gts250
1 x HD6870

I'm not sure, but the hash rate might be slightly higher too.

new_in_this

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Quote from: friendsofkim on March 01, 2011, 10:06:22 AM

Do I need to have the bitcoin client open for this to work?

I was wondering this same and i received error when client was not running. In my case i had to open client in order to get guiminer working.
(feel free to correct me, i'm new to this and been reading&learning alot in few days)

EDIT:
@Kiv: where i can read/find more about that extra flag field?

friendsofkim

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I've got the GUI working on DeepBit with 1.6 Mhash/s (slow I know) - anyway, it's cool.

Do I need to have the bitcoin client open for this to work? Sorry for the basic questions.

friendsofkim

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I have an NVidia GeForce 8400 GS running on Windows XP, 32 bit.

GeForce driver is version 185.85

I tried to run the Mining GUI but got an error message saying OpenCL wasn't installed. I couldn't find the OpenCL Nvidia driver anywhere - does anyone know if it exists? I can only see stories about a developer's release in 2008.

Thanks

--
Edit: Found driver update on NVidia web site...

new_in_this

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Thanks for reply, this is very interesting and i have lot's to read and even more to understand.

~1.3Gh/sec Shocked

that's killer machine.

(sorry for going slightly OT..)

true

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This is true if you are part of a pool. You'll get a portion of block mining proportional to your work put into the pool (different pools have different rules, though).

If you are mining and connected to your local client, you'll get 50BTC when you generate a valid block. Generation is random. I haven't generated one yet since running ~1.3Gh/sec for the last week and a half.

new_in_this

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@Kiv:
Thanks for reply, got it now and understood

EDIT: i was wondering this: someone said that i should get .something BTC/hour and so far it says Difficulty 1 hashes: 2056 (been running ~10hours now and nothing yet?)

Kiv

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That's correct, you would see available devices in there and choose one. For example, on my PC I have:

Code:

[0] Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 
[1] Juniper

The first one is my CPU and will be slow to generate coins with (only a few MHash). The second one is my GPU and the one I want to use in the app. Juniper is the code name for the Radeon HD 57xx series of cards such as my HD 5770.

Other common code names would be Cypress for HD 58xx and Hemlock for HD 59xx.

Hope this helped, if not you can try to explain further.

Quote from: dishwara on February 28, 2011, 02:12:30 PM

in device , u see how many by clicking down arrow?

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Kiv

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Hi, if you see something like "162 MHash" in the bottom right corner of the app, it means it's running correctly. Look at the screenshot in the first post to see it. If you don't see that in yours I can try to help further.

In the client, Generate Coins will generate coins using the CPU only. Since CPU is so slow and it will use 100% of your CPU, probably this is not worth doing.

Quote from: new_in_this on February 28, 2011, 11:53:21 AM

Hi.

This is really noobie question:

1: I DL and install Bitcoin (made portforwarding)
2: I DL this miner app
3: I open guiminer.exe
4: I make solo pass and set path correctly
5: I create new miner
6: I set all details (localhost, user and pw using port 8332)
7: On guiminer i launch Bitcoin client (and wait it to start and do all downloading)
8: On guiminer solo i press Start mining

Is that all i need to do for attemting to get Bitcoins? Is it correctly working and do i need to set Extra flags?

That's all i can think of now, but maybe more questions later when i understand this better.

EDIT: i'm not sure did i understood fully, but when this guiminer is running using my GPU, should i enable Generate Coins option in bitcoin client?

dishwara

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in device , u see how many by clicking down arrow?

******

new_in_this

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Hi.

This is really noobie question:

1: I DL and install Bitcoin (made portforwarding)
2: I DL this miner app
3: I open guiminer.exe
4: I make solo pass and set path correctly
5: I create new miner
6: I set all details (localhost, user and pw using port 8332)
7: On guiminer i launch Bitcoin client (and wait it to start and do all downloading)
8: On guiminer solo i press Start mining

Is that all i need to do for attemting to get Bitcoins? Is it correctly working and do i need to set Extra flags?

That's all i can think of now, but maybe more questions later when i understand this better.

EDIT: i'm not sure did i understood fully, but when this guiminer is running using my GPU, should i enable Generate Coins option in bitcoin client?

theGECK

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Small donation made, and slight oddity to report.

Upon a computer crash, the only thing left in the folder where I extracted the GUI program was the tcl folder. The rest was gone. When running the shortcut that I had on my desktop, it would bring up a command window, and then report that no OpenCL devices were detected. I downloaded the newest version (nice improvements, btw) and it's working fine now. Probably just something related to the crash, but figured I'd put it here in case it happens to anybody else.

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