Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 441. (Read 5805983 times)

While having issues with cgminer, guiminer ran fine - apart from the miserable 20%+ stale/DOA rate, that's why I wanted to try cgminer out, and it worked great the first time I ran it with half the DOA/Stale rate. But only once, not worked properly since then. I'm wiping & reinstalling the latest AMD drivers now.....fingers crossed.

Also, the first time I ran it it detected all my cards and I could change all settings on the fly, after a reboot that just a show & go cmd window.

pat. try reaper to see if it will run. you might have opencl issue. reinstall driver if neither program detects your cards. happenee to me randomly before. reaper would only show cpu and cgminer would suddenly quit on start

Yup, checked and double checked. Erased and replaced - still the same. Just ran sfc too - no problems......

Might try going back to the latest AMD drivers again, but I had the same problem with those too.....

Weird.

Still might be worth it to check your cgminer folder against the cgminer archive file you downloaded.

Yeah, I thought that, but I've already set my AV to ignore all my mining bits & bobs as I'd heard they can cause some problems. So far I've reinstalled my AMD stuff after completely wiping it all with driver sweeper, reinstalled cgminer, reconfigured my conf file - but still the disappearing cmd window continues......

I'm flumoxed man.

I  had this happen in the past when my AV software removed some cgminer files. It happened while cgminer was running. After that I setup the AV software to ignore the entire directory and re-downloaded cgminer and extracted into that directory. Funny thing is cgminer ran for weeks prior to that, so the definitions must have gotten updated and a scan got me. False positive of course...

Edit: Look for missing files in your cgminer folder (check against the archived file contents).

Hi Twmz,

Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing......as administrator too.....UAC is off etc. The black window will not go away UNTIL I run cgminer - then phoom! Gone.

This ain't normal......lol

Run:  cmd

A black window with a prompt will pop up and not go away.  At that prompt, run cgminer. 

Thanks for the reply ckolivas,

Yup, tried that too - still disappears too quickly to read it....even with the -T flag.  Been a few years since I used DOS, but I'm sure this is right:

START Users\\Desktop\Mining\cgminer-2.9.4-win32\cgminer.exe

The miner starts, then I get a very fast error message and it closes......

I'm doing something stupidly wrong here.........

No problem it has been almost exactly the same here (whenever RH 5.2 came out 98-99??) since I went linux but you have definitely taken those linux skills to a level I have not got too yet..

Is it possible to implement/integrate stratum direct for solo mining. Or write/rewrite the proxy to launch with cgminer?

I know how to borrow stratum or longpoll, but I do not prefer to.

Windows

Wondering if it is possible. Thank you

Heh, sorry, it's been 13 years since I used windows in any capacity...

And for those of you young enough to not remember that abomination they now call it a cmd window.

Start cgminer from a dos prompt instead of a bat file or clicking on it and the dos prompt wont disappear... Also add -T and it will just scroll the text output instead of formatting it.

Hi guys,

Sorry if this sounds a bit noobish, but I can't find the answer anywhere. My problem is this: I can run cgminer on my rig (headless) no problem, but I get a "devices don't match/multiple monitors/ run gpu map" error when I start it, and I'm unable to change/apply any settings apart from intensity, even if I put them in my config file it won't load them. Also, by the time I start to read the above error message it's gone! so I never get a chance to read it entirely. This is also true when I start cgminer with the -n flag, it briefly flashes the result on screen before disappearing, not giving me a chance to read the result. If I add the "pause" command it scrolls past the results and asks me to press any key to continue. I've tried using the logfile.txt command but it's blank.

Is there any way to keep the cgminer window open long enough for me to read it? It's strange, as the very first time I set cgminer up it worked a treat, but after a reboot it's never been the same. I'm quite new to this game, and very new to cgminer, so any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Specs & stuff:

WIN7 64bit
11.12 drivers
2.1 SDK (I'm told these are the best to use?)

HD5970 in top slot
HD5870 in second & third slot

Config:

,
"intensity" : "7,7,7,7",
"vectors" : "2,2,2,2",
"auto-fan" : true,
"worksize" : "128,128,128,128",
"kernel" : "phatk,phatk,phatk,phatk",
"lookup-gap" : "0,0,0,0",
"thread-concurrency" : "0,0,0,0",
"shaders" : "0,0,0,0",
"gpu-engine" : "940,940,820,820",
"gpu-fan" : "50-100,50-100,50-100,50-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "300,300,300,300",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0,0,0,0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0,0,0,0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000,0.000,0.000,0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95,95,95,95",
"temp-overheat" : "90,90,90,90",
"temp-target" : "85,85,85,85",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "1",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

Thanks in advance someone.......

I already made about 50BTC from a few generous poolops showing their support for me implementing stratum, since it's clearly benefiting the pools even more than it is the miners.  That's some battle GBT has ahead since it's currently at zero... Anyway if someone does donate for GBT in the interim, please tell me that's what you're donating for, since I can't set up a wallet address right now.

Post two bitcoin addresses, one for donations from those who want to show support for stratum, and the other for showing support of GBT.  That way people can "vote" with their wallets.

So by including support for GBT, you're making it an option for potential miners, but secretly hoping it goes away. Sounds like you've already made up your mind.

Actually I somewhat wish people would donate more for stratum support and no one donated for GBT support and I could disable that steaming pile of shit protocol. I might just disable it by default and add a command line to enable it instead. This is the reason I implemented stratum support first, to demonstrate how much better it actually was and show my support for the superior pool mining protocol, and I was hoping gbt would just go away.