Topic: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread - page 12. (Read 264278 times)

i have experimented with vertminer-0.5.2 and vertminer-0.5.2
although i don't have that much experience or knowledge with cgminer i got 1 ATI card a couple months back lol
i have read the readme's though

so what i have settled on is max intensity for 0.5.2 (which is 18) or 13 or 14 (has lower max setting) on newer ver. i think for the newer build but i am pretty much using the older one.

i noticed people comment that work size does not get changed in the bin file.. seems like 256 is hard coded regardless of your conf setting
which is weird because the guy in the first post says use 512 lol

anyway i thought i'd try and max out as much dedicated memory usage i could for mining on my 7950
on my Powercolor PCS+ 7950 i have reached as close to the limit as i can get with 2,806mb used dedicated memory (according to GPU-Z)
and what i did to do that was i started watching for hardware errors.. if i got even 1 error then my config is not good and i kept checking..
then i grabbed the Windows x64 Calculator (what i am mining on) and i multiplied my stream processor count to get the highest number thread concurrency i could (without errors or crashing)
what i noticed is lower settings tended to cause hardware errors, even if running fast..
there seems to be straps so to speak where the speed has a sweet spot and if you go above or below it produces more and more errors.
the lower strap is useless for me and gives me errors and the higher one gives same speeds but no errors.. no idea what it's like from card to card / model / brand
270 kh/s seems to be my max hash speed i think for 0.5.2 using thread concurrency 22400
to get that i calculated my stream processor count 1792 x 13 (14 uses to much ram and miner will not run) so what i did then to squeeze a bit more out of it was
i divided the 1792 by 2 to get 896 and added that to (1792x13) 23296 + 896 = 22400 (2,806mb out of 3gb dedicated gpu dram used at that setting) hashing at 270kh/s

So this setup and method i used and my config works great on any scrypt coin too.. i can't seem to find any way to make it go faster with no errors.
Lastly i have experimented with or with out using a DVI plug into my screen.. i use my Intel 4770k integrated Graphics to run my primary desktop
and have tested disabling the 2nd desktop used by the dedicated miner.. the gpu map command will not do anything if no dummy plug or monitor plug is inserted.

uhh also i recently got my hands on cgwatcher and it's bad ass ! ..it's a great program and i heard about it before but it was way better than i had expected, check it out guys

so i don't know what people will think of my setup or methodology here for config testing ..i am not expert on AMD/ATI mining lol
but i think i read something before in the readme files about trying to multiply the SP count for thread concurrency with the goal of using up the GPU ram.

my conf file i use (i reserve the right to tinker with it more and change it later lol) ..again

My best, discovered settings for MSI R9 270 OC Gaming 2GB on Win 7 64bit Ultimate, 8GB DDR3.


"intensity" : "20",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "1000",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"shaders" : "800",
"thread-concurrency" : "12300",
"expiry" : "30",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"scan-time" : "1"

No HW, avg speed 208 KH/s.

hi all,

any optimised settings for a 5970 dualgpu card availeble???

Tried running the settings, keeps giving me this. http://s18.postimg.org/e1w15r2ax/error.png

This is the way I have my miner setup, did I screw any settings up such as a misplaced comma or something?
http://s30.postimg.org/t3hu1485d/settings.png

i dunno i looked at that guys post history and he's a noob.
he has no track record or post history for posting cgminer mods and has not demonstrated any tech knowledge about it either..

i looked at what the guy uploaded and the dll's are not the same as vertminer-0.5.2 and vertminer-0.5.3
some are missing and some are added extra.. so far i am not sure with some quick checking and i would advise people to avoid it !
the main .exe is 200kbs larger than vertminer 053 but i think that is just because it has debug info compiled into it..
one thing i noticed is that this guys new build he is posting was last modified on January 11th 2014
and vertminer-0.5.3 was last modified February 25th 2014.

the guy has no changelog either or source code.. i see no benefit and a large risk..
why is Opencl.dll in there ?
and hey i have compiled using Zlib more than a decade ago and i never felt the need to have two zlib dll's either.. whats up with that ? lol

avoid..

edit:
also the folder inside the zip file is called "Vertcoin-CGMinerAleks_NR3"

edit2:
i meant i first compiled (not coded Zlib) more than 10 years ago so am familiar with it.
i also have made major contributions to code project open zip project yrs ago used all over in things like HL1 and HL2 etc.
i also detected and had removed another virus from a torrent site yesterday too.. i find them non stop.
I use a variety of methods to look for malware.. first stop is looking at the header with a hex editor..
then i go from there using peid, ollydbg hex compare tools.. all kinds of crap including sandbox software with custom anti-malware plugins.
and of course it never hurts to stop by virus total either.

also i quit checking up on that guys new miner.. it seemed suspicious and or slapped together by a noob with no source code or explanation in any way, so no thanks.
it may be clean it may not is my call.. i don;t know for sure.. i would say avoid it unless he can post more info and source code etc

https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/2b08ba21a708e70f49f01538ee64f9dc4320de2db9b3609e1a27b4d1da88afa0/analysis/

im not sure about this one. anyone can confirm ?

The new location for modified cgminer:

https://mega.co.nz/#!eRFijaZS!VAOdKNeNvsqUdhqbDt3FMMR5bBUHAiJjE6F7MYX1ZNY

the OP will be modified soon to reflect this.

I have gigabyte rev2 280x and asus 280x DC2T, no matter what options I use, still get like 1hw / 1-2hours, sometimes less. tried lower TC, lower gpu, but it never gets resolved. Did anyone have few hw's and then completely no hw ? Using -g 1 the hashrate dropped about 20-25%. Normal scrypt gigabyte does about 735-740kh, asus 780kh, vert 350 for giga, 380-390 asus

I've been changing my settings to try to get rid of the hw errors. But for some reason what kind of setting I try it steel seems to get HW errors.

I have 4 280x toxics, tried 8191/8182/8193 and tried 1100/1500 1070/1500 1040/1500etc etc

anyone could help me here or has the same cards?


setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 200 (tried 100 also)
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
vertminer.exe -o stratum+tcp[Suspicious link removed].poolz.net:3333 -u troj.1 -p 2 -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192

My afterburner settings atm:
core voltage 1131
core clock 1100
memory clock 1500

could anyone help me out here, I keep getting HW errors

i tried i get worse results ....

first card at 2 k/hash and second at 50 k/hash

scrap the shaders, try -g 1, change inensity to 13 for a try, set your gpu engine and memclock per card. Give 8193 thread-concurrency a try.

so anyone

5850 or 5XXX is not best for script N mining as the bandwidth is only 256 bit. script N mining needs a lot of memory access.

Mining 2 x 5850s with 4gb ram only getting 260kh/s anyone doing better than that

"intensity" : "12",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "4096",
"shaders" : "1440",
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"gpu-engine" : "765-896",
"gpu-fan" : "50-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1200",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.050",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"temp-cutoff" : "90",

Don't forget the -shaders option set accordingly to your GPU to optimize the efficiency of your mining

Hello im kinda new to adabtive n scrypt ....

when i try to mine i get this problem where one of my cards have really low hash rate ....

i would like someone to help me with this problem ...

i got 2 amd 7790

where they both should get around 80 k/hash



my setting


setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://x -u x -p x -g 2 -w 49,49 --thread-concurrency 4000,4000 --shaders 896,896 -I 15

Try lowering thread-concurrency and/or intensity? You can also run vertminer with --verbose to get a more detailed error message.

I will give 5 darkcoins(its what I have) to whoever helps me get vertminer working. I've tried several settings but nothing I do works. Vertminer just crashes, refuses to start, tells me there's no pools, or gives me some sort error no matter what I try. I've deleted almost every settings combo I've tried so I can't replicate the variety of errors I've received. All I want is for the damn thing to just work, while I would greatly appreciate settings advice functionality is much more important to me.

GPU 0: Gigabyte R9 270
GPU 1: Gigabyte R9 270
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750K Trinity 3.4GHz quad core
RAM: 8 Gb(4Gb x2) 2133 Mhz Gskill Sniper
Motherboard: Gigabyte AMD FM2+/FM2 A88X (GA-F2A88X-UP4)
Operating system: Windows 7 64 bit
Catalsk Driver version: 13.12
Vert miner version: 0.5.2

These are my settings for the Kalroth Version of Cgminer(I deleted all the failed vertminer settings except for the pools). How exactly would I change these settings to get them to work on vertminer?


Bat File:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
timeout /t 4
cgminer.exe --scrypt --thread-concurrency 21568 --no-submit-stale --gpu-engine 1145 --gpu-memclock 1500 --lookup-gap 2 --temp-target 72 --auto-fan


Conf File:
{
"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://p2pool.get-vert.com:9171",
                "user" : "wallet receive address",
                "pass" : "password"
        },
        {
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://us-east.pool.vertcoin.io:9171",
                "user" : "wallet receive address",
                "pass" : "password"
        }
]
,
"intensity" : "17",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8193",
"temp-cutoff" : "90",
"expiry" : "1",
"failover-only" : true,
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"device" : "0, 1",
"gpu-threads" : "2"
}