OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 303.

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Quote from: The Mafia on June 09, 2013, 06:48:52 AM

Quote from: philips on June 09, 2013, 06:33:19 AM

Quote from: The Mafia on June 09, 2013, 06:13:33 AM

Why would you run 12.8 when 13.4 works perfectly fine? Were 7000 cards even out when 12.8 was released? Did you ever consider that you are using drivers that were never intended for that card? Have you also considered that it is why they have released newer drivers? To fix issues?

Actually 7xxx cards are supported since 11.12 (8.921) drivers.
Also AMD interest is in fixing gaming issues.

A newer driver could be better at gaming, but not necessarily at mining.
In fact, older drivers = better drivers.

Maybe try Linux? It's so easy.

I am on the friggin Linux since 2000.

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My machine is also my workstation, and I need Windows. It worked before on Win7 - it's why it now doesn't that's making my mind boggle.

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Quote from: philips on June 09, 2013, 06:33:19 AM

Quote from: The Mafia on June 09, 2013, 06:13:33 AM

Why would you run 12.8 when 13.4 works perfectly fine? Were 7000 cards even out when 12.8 was released? Did you ever consider that you are using drivers that were never intended for that card? Have you also considered that it is why they have released newer drivers? To fix issues?

Actually 7xxx cards are supported since 11.12 (8.921) drivers.
Also AMD interest is in fixing gaming issues.

A newer driver could be better at gaming, but not necessarily at mining.
In fact, older drivers = better drivers.

Maybe try Linux? It's so easy.

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Quote from: The Mafia on June 09, 2013, 06:13:33 AM

Why would you run 12.8 when 13.4 works perfectly fine? Were 7000 cards even out when 12.8 was released? Did you ever consider that you are using drivers that were never intended for that card? Have you also considered that it is why they have released newer drivers? To fix issues?

Actually 7xxx cards are supported since 11.12 (8.921) drivers.
Also AMD interest is in fixing gaming issues.

A newer driver could be better at gaming, but not necessarily at mining.
In fact, older drivers = better drivers.

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Quote from: The Mafia on June 09, 2013, 06:22:04 AM

Quote from: streetuff on June 09, 2013, 06:15:23 AM

12.8 = august 2012.... so yes. 7xxx cards where already out at that time...

Why don't you at least try 13.4? They release later drivers for a reason.

There is also a good AMD removal tool on their site to clear old drivers. I suggest you run that before installing updated drivers to eliminate any other issues.

well i use AMD-APP-SDK-v2.7-lnx32.tar on my 7870...

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Quote from: The Mafia on June 09, 2013, 06:13:33 AM

Why would you run 12.8 when 13.4 works perfectly fine?

cgminer just crashes under 13.4 - I've wiped and reinstalled Windows a couple of times trying this. 12.10 is the same. 13.2 is the same. 12.8 is the only one I can (could) get to run reliably.

With anything but 12.8 cgminer craps out on initial start (about then it builds the .bin files).

I must be missing something - I'm running a fresh 7x64 install, Windows updated, ATI drivers, cgminer. Nothing else.

Board is an Asus P8B WS (C206 chipset), i5-3350P@defualt speed, 12GB DDR3-1600 RAM, Asus HD7850, Gigabyte HD7950, Sapphire HD6970.

These three cards worked OK on a SABERTOOTH 990FX with a [email protected], but I changed to bring power consumption down (the AMD chip and board were using ~100W more at the wall than the Intel setup).

If I can't get this working I think I'll have to go back to the AMD. But I want to see if there's something strange with cgminer, and maybe help bug hunt before I nuke this install?

The Mafia

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Quote from: streetuff on June 09, 2013, 06:15:23 AM

12.8 = august 2012.... so yes. 7xxx cards where already out at that time...

Why don't you at least try 13.4? They release later drivers for a reason.

There is also a good AMD removal tool on their site to clear old drivers. I suggest you run that before installing updated drivers to eliminate any other issues.

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12.8 = august 2012.... so yes. 7xxx cards where already out at that time...

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Quote from: -ck on June 07, 2013, 05:27:25 AM

Quote from: pengoau on June 07, 2013, 05:23:14 AM

hey guys

I have 3 gpus in my system 1 apu and 2 dedicated gpus, how can i startup cgminer with the third gpu (gpu 2) turned off? I tried setting intensity to 0 but that doesn't work.

Do I specify it via the -d switch? If so what is the syntax?

Thanks

-d 0-1 --remove-disabled

this tell cgminer, to use only the first two and remove the third, right?

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Quote from: HellDiverUK on June 09, 2013, 06:08:33 AM

Quote from: -ck on June 09, 2013, 06:05:21 AM

Quote from: HellDiverUK on June 09, 2013, 06:02:48 AM

3.1.1 and 3.2.1 are running my i5-3350P at 80% CPU. 3 GPUs (7850, 7950, 6970). Eventually locks up the machine, solid. Was OK with 2.11.4. Running 7x64 with 12.8 drivers.

That's driver and sdk related, nothing to do with cgminer - it caches bin files generated the first time you run it and will run the same ever more on that cgminer even if you change drivers, so you almost certainly changed drivers between cgminer versions.

It's a fresh install yesterday. Fresh install of drivers, Windows updated. Just copied my cgminer.conf in to a freshly extracted cgminer archive. New .bins are generated.

Do you still think it's drivers? The 12.8 drivers worked OK before reinstall (was running an AMD chip before).

Yeah, I do.

Why would you run 12.8 when 13.4 works perfectly fine? Were 7000 cards even out when 12.8 was released? Did you ever consider that you are using drivers that were never intended for that card? Have you also considered that it is why they have released newer drivers? To fix issues?

I have a core2duo 1.8ghz running 3x 7950s with no CPU usage issues. 13.4. Then I ditched windows 7 for Ubuntu and got even more hashes. Used 13.4 there too.

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Quote from: -ck on June 09, 2013, 06:05:21 AM

Quote from: HellDiverUK on June 09, 2013, 06:02:48 AM

3.1.1 and 3.2.1 are running my i5-3350P at 80% CPU. 3 GPUs (7850, 7950, 6970). Eventually locks up the machine, solid. Was OK with 2.11.4. Running 7x64 with 12.8 drivers.

That's driver and sdk related, nothing to do with cgminer - it caches bin files generated the first time you run it and will run the same ever more on that cgminer even if you change drivers, so you almost certainly changed drivers between cgminer versions.

It's a fresh install yesterday. Fresh install of drivers, Windows updated. Just copied my cgminer.conf in to a freshly extracted cgminer archive. New .bins are generated.

Do you still think it's drivers? The 12.8 drivers worked OK before reinstall (was running an AMD chip before).

-ck

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Quote from: HellDiverUK on June 09, 2013, 06:02:48 AM

3.1.1 and 3.2.1 are running my i5-3350P at 80% CPU. 3 GPUs (7850, 7950, 6970). Eventually locks up the machine, solid. Was OK with 2.11.4. Running 7x64 with 12.8 drivers.

That's driver and sdk related, nothing to do with cgminer - it caches bin files generated the first time you run it and will run the same ever more on that cgminer even if you change drivers, so you almost certainly changed drivers between cgminer versions.

HellDiverUK

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3.1.1 and 3.2.1 are running my i5-3350P at 80% CPU. 3 GPUs (7850, 7950, 6970). Eventually locks up the machine, solid. Was OK with 2.11.4. Running 7x64 with 12.8 drivers.

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Quote from: streetuff on June 09, 2013, 05:48:22 AM

Quote from: GuiltySpark343 on June 08, 2013, 09:53:49 PM

What level of CPU usage are people getting using CGMiner 3.1.1?

I've got a Win7 x64 setup with a Core i5-3570k and getting about 25% CPU usage, hashing with just one USB Block Erupter.

http://pastebin.com/HUhNYA6g

96.3% idle at 800MHz cpu usage...

3% on a raspberry pi

Running 9 x cairnsmore fpga's via a couple of USB hubs.....

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Quote from: GuiltySpark343 on June 08, 2013, 09:53:49 PM

What level of CPU usage are people getting using CGMiner 3.1.1?

I've got a Win7 x64 setup with a Core i5-3570k and getting about 25% CPU usage, hashing with just one USB Block Erupter.

http://pastebin.com/HUhNYA6g

96.3% idle at 800MHz cpu usage...

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Quote from: kano on May 26, 2013, 07:42:21 AM

Quote from: Paladin69 on May 26, 2013, 07:37:40 AM

Hi,

I haven't upgraded since 2.10.4 The latest version is very different. fpgaonly.exe is now replaced by nogpus.exe, I guess? The way you start the COM's must be different or something? Getting errors and nothing wants to start.

I used to type this...

cgminer-fpgaonly.exe -o http://www.xxx.com:port -u user_worker -p pass -S bitforce:\\.\COM3 -S bitforce:\\.\COM4 -S bitforce:\\.\COM5 -S bitforce:\\.\COM6 -S bitforce:\\.\COM7 -S bitforce:\\.\COM8 -S bitforce:\\.\COM9 -S bitforce:\\.\COM10 -S bitforce:\\.\COM11 -S bitforce:\\.\COM12 -S bitforce:\\.\COM13 -S bitforce:\\.\COM14 -S bitforce:\\.\COM15 -S bitforce:\\.\COM16 -S bitforce:\\.\COM17 -S bitforce:\\.\COM18 -S bitforce:\\.\COM19 -S bitforce:\\.\COM20 -S bitforce:\\.\COM21 -S noauto

Sorry the help files are just a sea of words to me. Can somebody look at the string above and tell me what to modify? This is for Windows.

With 3.1.1 Switch the driver with zadig and remove every -S except the last one (-S noauto)
... read README, FPGA-README

Are you sure -S noauto at the end is all I need? Remember the linux version is different from windows. Windows required me to input all those COM's one at a time.

Also, could somebody possibly just help me with the command lines on what to type? You say switch to the zadig driver, but the README is really confusing to me. 95% of what is talked about in there I'm sure doesn't relate to me.

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cgminer 3.2.1 is working wonderfully with my block erupter! I notice that my hardware failure is actually much lower with this version. This is a screenshot of cgminer with an uptime of about 1 day 2 hours 35 minutes.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0cen93laqkyh3e/cgminer3.2.1.png

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Quote from: os2sam on June 08, 2013, 10:53:13 PM

Quote from: Trongersoll on June 08, 2013, 10:09:12 PM

Quote from: GuiltySpark343 on June 08, 2013, 09:53:49 PM

What level of CPU usage are people getting using CGMiner 3.1.1?

I've got a Win7 x64 setup with a Core i7-3570k and getting about 25% CPU usage, hashing with just one USB Block Erupter.

I'm seeing about 60% on each of two cores. But the cpu is only runniing at 1Ghz so i don't expect much from it. running 4 erupters and a Radian 6570 GPU.

1Ghz Dual Core? never heard of such a thing.

I only got 10Mh/s out of the on board GPU so i put a small video card in the PCIe slot. getting a whopping 85Mh/s on the video card now. heh.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007ZT1FAI/ref=oh_details_o05_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Quote from: Trongersoll on June 08, 2013, 10:09:12 PM

Quote from: GuiltySpark343 on June 08, 2013, 09:53:49 PM

What level of CPU usage are people getting using CGMiner 3.1.1?

I've got a Win7 x64 setup with a Core i7-3570k and getting about 25% CPU usage, hashing with just one USB Block Erupter.

I'm seeing about 60% on each of two cores. But the cpu is only runniing at 1Ghz so i don't expect much from it. running 4 erupters and a Radian 6570 GPU.

1Ghz Dual Core? never heard of such a thing.

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Quote from: GuiltySpark343 on June 08, 2013, 09:53:49 PM

What level of CPU usage are people getting using CGMiner 3.1.1?

I've got a Win7 x64 setup with a Core i7-3570k and getting about 25% CPU usage, hashing with just one USB Block Erupter.

I'm seeing about 60% on each of two cores. But the cpu is only runniing at 1Ghz so i don't expect much from it. running 4 erupters and a Radian 6570 GPU.

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