V1.6.8- New Monero algo added (normalv8)
- Small speed increase on some cards
- Fee is now ~0.85% for both normal mode and algo switching mode
- Faster miner startup
- Pools with different algos can now be used in pools.txt, miner will re-init on switch
- Added a new parameter for gpu tuning in gpu_conf : bralock
- Rewritten release of resources on miner shutdown/restart
- Added parameter --forcedshutdown if you don't want to release resources on exit
- Fixed bug when setting compute mode on more than 9 cards
- Fixed a bug showing bad date for 'connected since' and 'average share find time'
- Gpu hashrate watchdog now won't trigger if user is not connected to a pool
- reboot_script parameter removed and added 'reboot_script_min_rig_speed' and 'reboot_script_gpu_watchdog' instead
- Added more logging in gpu init part
- API parameters now have to be set in start.bat (--apienable, --apiport, --apirigname) , removed them from config.txt
- Press 'o' to switch to the previous pool from pools.txt
- If you add 'stratum+ssl://' before the pool address, TLS will be automatically enabled
+ Monero will fork on block 1685555 (that is approx Oct 18th). A new algo is introduced, use '
normalv8' for cryptonight_type
+ Fee is now equal for both normal and algo switching mode (~0.85%)
+ Miner now starts up a little bit faster
+ Pools can now use cryptonight_type, and if the next/previous pool algo isn't the current one, miner will restart with the correct settings
There is a short explanation on how to use this option on the first page and in the readme.txt
+ Added parameter
bralock in gpu_conf, it is a value from 1-256, it *may* give you a little speedup if you find the right value for your algo/gpu
+ Removed the reboot_script parameter, and instead made 2 new parameters :
"reboot_script_gpu_watchdog" : filename to a batch file in miner directory, if set it turns off built in miner reset procedure on gpu failure, and instead runs this script
"reboot_script_min_rig_speed" : filename to a batch file in miner directory, if set it turns off built in miner reset procedure on min_rig_speed trigger, and instead runs this script
+ API parameters removed from config file, so they don't have to be defined in every config separately.
Now you can set them in start.bat with :
--apienable (enable statistics API)
--apiport value (port where statistics API is reachable - default 21555)
--apirigname value (identifier name for your rig in statistics API)
+ Added possibility to switch to the previous pool from your pools list by pressing 'o'. If you get to the first pool on the list, and press 'o' it will go around, and jump to the last pool.
Also i implemented a temporary solution for the transition from V7 to V8 algo, so the miner can switch automatically when the fork happens.
You can read it
HERE on how to do it.
Basically you set the config for normalv8 in Config folder(intensity and everything else), enable the algo switching (by adding --usealgoswitching in start.bat), and create a temporary pools file, where you put 2 pools, the first one is the V7 pool, the second one is V8.
Set start.bat to use that temporary pools file, and when the time comes, miner will detect if the received job is for the new algo, and will switch to the next pool on the list, which in this case is the pool using the V8 algo.
Also the config-normalv8 settings will apply.