HI,
I'm running : PowerColor PCS R9 290 , bios jumper moved right (on performance) on 8GB system RAM with the following settings:
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1;
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100;
"intensity" : "18",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "512",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "27000"
cgminer shows me 380-400 KHs with average of: 378 KHs and zero HW errors for more than 3 hours. So I guess it's stable.
Question for more experienced; Is this good enough ?
Also I am on stratum+tcp://stratum.vtcpool.co.uk:3333.
But the pool is never showing me more then 300KHs and is very annoingly getting me logged out after a really short period of time, and then again measuring average hash rate.
After running for 2 hours I received a payment of only: 0.13VTC.
According to the mining calculator this is very poor. Is it something wrong with the pool? Any recommendations for a better pool?
Topic: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread - page 18. (Read 264281 times)
you are a f#&% lifesaver. I have been asking all weekend. No one had a solution because I guess so few downloaded the newest version. My last resort was to reread the README tonight when I got a chance. Of course its in the readme !!
Not sure if its just me being noob but I realized that compiling latest vertminer in linux, you HAVE to specify --nscrypt or I get the share is above target error 100%. It doesn't default to nscrypt? I assume?
This is getting me an average of 344kh/s with an ASUS R9 280X.
Vm1L8ygvYke8XjzXYMeSPZSRSpPhSzKxRZ
Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://vtc.coinvention.net:4333 -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-powertune -20 --temp-target 65 --temp-overheat 75 --temp-cutoff 80 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1000 --thread-concurrency 8191
Vm1L8ygvYke8XjzXYMeSPZSRSpPhSzKxRZ
which model do you have? the 3 slot version or the 2 slot? (the 3 slot is v2, the non v2 version is the 2 slot one)
I have the 3 slot one and can get nowhere near that, lucky with 280/300
Is there some reason you guys with the R9 280 have been setting the power tune to negative 20? The way I have seen a few of the examples on here they say --gpu-powertune -20 that actually sets it negative unless you get rid of the "-" in front of the 20....might be why some of you have poor speeds
Not sure if its just me being noob but I realized that compiling latest vertminer in linux, you HAVE to specify --nscrypt or I get the share is above target error 100%. It doesn't default to nscrypt? I assume?
PLease Help. I have tried everything I can think of...NO HARDWARE ERRORS JUST REJECTED SHARES
Using XUbuntu 12.10 and Sapphire R9 270 [not the X] 2GB RAM
I have been using Cgminer 3.7.2 for months with no problem so Im not a newbie to mining but I have tried everything with my settings on VERTMINER 0.5.4pre2
Is it possible I didnt compile it correctly ? I am new to Linux but supplied all the prerequisite libraries/files and it seemed to build correctly. Vertminer executes fine.
Here is Vertminer script:
!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0 export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100 export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1 cd /home/xxxxxxxugh/vertminer ./vertminer -w 256 --scrypt -I 12 --gpu-threads 2 --thread-concurrency 6336 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 965 --gpu-memclock 1500 -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3361 -u hxxxx7.huxxxys77 -p a
This is what happens when I run Vertminer [ 5mins] I have tried letting it run for 1/2hr doesnt help
vertminer version 0.5.4pre2 - Started: [2014-02-16 14:45:25]
(5s):41.90K (avg):47.09Kh/s | A:0 R:160 HW:0 WU:44.7/m ST: 2 SS: 0 (-nan%) NB: 0 PA: 5 PR: 3 LW: 78 GF: 2 RF: 0 Connected to east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com diff 32 with stratum as user hu Block: 2081235e... Diff:130 Started: [14:49:16] Best share: 126
Using XUbuntu 12.10 and Sapphire R9 270 [not the X] 2GB RAM
I have been using Cgminer 3.7.2 for months with no problem so Im not a newbie to mining but I have tried everything with my settings on VERTMINER 0.5.4pre2
Is it possible I didnt compile it correctly ? I am new to Linux but supplied all the prerequisite libraries/files and it seemed to build correctly. Vertminer executes fine.
Here is Vertminer script:
!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0 export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100 export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1 cd /home/xxxxxxxugh/vertminer ./vertminer -w 256 --scrypt -I 12 --gpu-threads 2 --thread-concurrency 6336 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 965 --gpu-memclock 1500 -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3361 -u hxxxx7.huxxxys77 -p a
This is what happens when I run Vertminer [ 5mins] I have tried letting it run for 1/2hr doesnt help
vertminer version 0.5.4pre2 - Started: [2014-02-16 14:45:25]
(5s):41.90K (avg):47.09Kh/s | A:0 R:160 HW:0 WU:44.7/m ST: 2 SS: 0 (-nan%) NB: 0 PA: 5 PR: 3 LW: 78 GF: 2 RF: 0 Connected to east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com diff 32 with stratum as user hu Block: 2081235e... Diff:130 Started: [14:49:16] Best share: 126
Edit:
I moved the intensity to 19 and it gives a stable hash of 423. At 20, it still works but pc starts to lag and I can't do anything else
Updated:
With Sapphire R9 290x BF ed, I'm using the below to get stable 436 KH with zero hardware error. Any other setting and tons of HW errors start coming in. I think the thread concurrency did it for me. Has to be 2816*8 for this card. Don't ask me why (though I'm a computer engineer; just not very upto speed with AMD chipset). Also I run the fan at fixed speed of 75% from Trixx to keep temperature below 75C.
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o -u -p -I 20 --lookup-gap 2 -w 256 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --thread-concurrency 22528
I moved the intensity to 19 and it gives a stable hash of 423. At 20, it still works but pc starts to lag and I can't do anything else
Updated:
With Sapphire R9 290x BF ed, I'm using the below to get stable 436 KH with zero hardware error. Any other setting and tons of HW errors start coming in. I think the thread concurrency did it for me. Has to be 2816*8 for this card. Don't ask me why (though I'm a computer engineer; just not very upto speed with AMD chipset). Also I run the fan at fixed speed of 75% from Trixx to keep temperature below 75C.
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o
I'm running these same settings, but also trying to mine with an A10-7850K at the same time, and vertminer gives me a black screen. It starts up, it mines, but the UI is not there. I am also running The Stilt's improved Litecoin BIOS for my Radeon R9 290X.
Here's my bat file.
Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o-u -p -I 19,11 --lookup-gap 2 -g 1 -w 256 -d 1,0 --thread-concurrency 22528,5120
I'm gonna try running without the iGPU for now, which allows me to see the UI.
Whenever I try a bat file enabling only one GPU, whether I do -d 1 or -d 0, it chooses the iGPU, effectively keeping me from hashing with only the R9 290X.
Got over 230KH for R9 270X:
-I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 6720 -g 2 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 70 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-100 --shaders 1280
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51141759/btc/vert_result.png
If I helped, make a tip :-)
-I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 6720 -g 2 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 70 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-100 --shaders 1280
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51141759/btc/vert_result.png
If I helped, make a tip :-)
-I 19 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 16192 -g 1 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 70 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-100 --shaders 1280 --lookup-gap 0 --no-submit-stale
Code:
{
"pools" : [
{
"name" : "http://q30.qhor.net:9171",
"url" : "http://q30.qhor.net:9171",
"user" : "",
"pass" : "",
"pool-priority" : "0"
}
],
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"expiry" : "1",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "1000,1000",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500,1500",
"intensity" : "13,13",
"worksize" : "256,256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8191,8191"
}Thats the created bin-file: scrypt140202Tahitiglg2tc4032w256l4.bin
Vertminer doesnt apply any of these conf-settings, even not if i type this in a command line. Why?
Quote
vertminer.exe --expiry 1 --gpu-threads 2 --gpu-engine 1000,1000 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 --gpu-vddc 1.094,1.094 --intensity 13,13 --worksize 256,256 --lookup-gap 2,2 --thread-concurrency 8191,8191 -o http://q30.qhor.net:9171 -u walletaddress -p any
No problems on another computer, why?
Yeah I dropped it to I=11 (HW=0), although hash rate has dropped. How do I find out how many coins/day I should expect?
http://www.verters.com/vertcoin-mining-calculator 
As a complete mining newbie, I have some questions (this is the run window: http://imgur.com/mNZFN1I):
Hashrate is the amount of work your card is doing. Your pool should give you an estimate on how many coins/day you can expect. You don't need to worry about nodes if you're just mining.- What is the hash rate?
- How often/random is the acquisition of coins?
- What is a node?
Also, you probably want to drop the intensity down a notch, as your miner is showing HW errors (HW: 53). This appears to be having a negative impact on your WU (work units), which is the actual indicator of work done - should be about 90% of hashrate, yours is less than half.
Yeah I dropped it to I=11 (HW=0), although hash rate has dropped. How do I find out how many coins/day I should expect? On irc the bot says around 1VTC
thanks
i tried this but I can't get any to be accepted by the pool
i'll tip whoever can get me a working setting
using cgminer for VERT
You can't get CGminer to work for Vert. You need Vertminer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5n70hj3izjj64y1/vertminer-0.5.3.zipi tried this but I can't get any to be accepted by the pool
i'll tip whoever can get me a working setting
using cgminer for VERT
There's a link to the special version of cgminer
As a complete mining newbie, I have some questions (this is the run window: http://imgur.com/mNZFN1I):
Hashrate is the amount of work your card is doing. Your pool should give you an estimate on how many coins/day you can expect. You don't need to worry about nodes if you're just mining.- What is the hash rate?
- How often/random is the acquisition of coins?
- What is a node?
Also, you probably want to drop the intensity down a notch, as your miner is showing HW errors (HW: 53). This appears to be having a negative impact on your WU (work units), which is the actual indicator of work done - should be about 90% of hashrate, yours is less than half.
As a complete mining newbie, I have some questions (this is the run window: http://imgur.com/mNZFN1I):
- What is the hash rate?
- How often/random is the acquisition of coins?
- What is a node?
WU varies between 650 and 750. No HW or rejects. Pool difficulty varries.
Yeah I see that ... its the same for me. You notice that the Pool difficulty is not varying but increasing. Based on your screenshot you just restarted and miner and having small shares. First the pool difficulty start with 16 and you could have very high WU even higher than hashrate. When it stabalize after few minutes to difficulty 128 and above the WU seems max out at 90% of Hashrate.
Below screenshot is R9 290 Elpida.
--no-submit-stale --gpu-vddc 1 --gpu-fan 100 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --thread-concurrency 24000 -g 1 -I 20 --worksize 512 --gpu-powertune +20 --lookup-gap 2
It seems to me modded Vertcoin-CGMinerAleks_NR3 is more stable than buggy vertminer-0.5.2. Verminer after crash cannot restart fresh like cgminer and need reboot Windows.
BTW vertminer options need to change --scrypt to --scrypt-vert
With Sapphire R9 290x BF ed, I'm using the below to get stable 436 KH with zero hardware error. Any other setting and tons of HW errors start coming in. I think the thread concurrency did it for me. Has to be 2816*8 for this card. Don't ask me why (though I'm a computer engineer; just not very upto speed with AMD chipset). Also I run the fan at fixed speed of 75% from Trixx to keep temperature below 75C.
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o -u -p -I 20 --lookup-gap 2 -w 256 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --thread-concurrency 22528
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
COLOR 0A
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o
I have the Sapphire R9 290X BF4 Ed. (53G) and I'm getting about the same hash of 440k at stock 1000/1250 (no power tune). If I try to OC @ 1100/1400, hash goes down to about 365K. This seems to be the best setting so far for mine...
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o 127.0.0.1:PORT -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 22528 -I 20 -g 1 -w 256
On this PC I have an i7-4770k OC'd to 45x/39x mem @1600. No change in hash with mem @ 2133.
My ASUS monitor has 2 HDMI inputs so I can go into bios, enable IGPU, and connect HDMI out of ASRock Extreme4 mobo to HDMI(2) while HDMI out of 290x is on HDMI(1). While monitor is switched to HDMI(2) I can set fan speed to 50% via TRIXX to keep temp @ 80C and experience no video lag while mining.
My open case PC is using Sapphire 2x7950's and I'm getting about 530k (265K@) @ stock 925/1250 using...
vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o 127.0.0.1:PORT -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 21000 -I 18 -g 1 -w 256
Still playing around with settings but seems to be stable.
I managed to get my 2x R9 280x vapor x working @ 375kh/s each
here are my settings:
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://stratum12.dogehouse.org:9091 -u x -p x -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8192 --gpu-engine 1076,1072 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 ---temp-cutoff 85 --temp-overheat 80 --temp-target 75 --auto-fan
,
"intensity" : "13",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "70-80,70-80",
"gpu-engine" : "1076,1072",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500,1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "10,10",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"expiry" : "30",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"scan-time" : "5"
Temperatures are 59 for first and 70 degrees for the second one.
Any recomandations for some risers? I can't seem to make up my mind on what I see online.
here are my settings:
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://stratum12.dogehouse.org:9091 -u x -p x -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8192 --gpu-engine 1076,1072 --gpu-memclock 1500,1500 ---temp-cutoff 85 --temp-overheat 80 --temp-target 75 --auto-fan
,
"intensity" : "13",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-fan" : "70-80,70-80",
"gpu-engine" : "1076,1072",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500,1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "10,10",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"expiry" : "30",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"scan-time" : "5"
Temperatures are 59 for first and 70 degrees for the second one.
Any recomandations for some risers? I can't seem to make up my mind on what I see online.
Can share 3 more info?
1. Pool Difficulty for the Worker
2. Reject, Hardware Error, Working Unit
3. Miner version cgminer? verminer?
I notice my hashrate remains over 440kH for R290 but WU fluctuate depending on the pool difficulty for worker. When difficulty is below 32, WU is very close to 400. When the difficulty going up to 64,128 or even 256, the W.U. drop drastically to less than 380kH/s.
If you have 2 GPU most likely I guess your difficulty will be maximum at 256 or more and WU propably only 70% of 375x2 = 525kH/s if you are using traditional pool.
http://s28.postimg.org/mei9yoqot/bitcrush.jpg
WU varies between 650 and 750. No HW or rejects. Pool difficulty varries.
Got over 230KH for R9 270X:
-I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 6720 -g 2 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 70 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-100 --shaders 1280
If I helped, make a tip :-)
-I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 6720 -g 2 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-powertune 20 --temp-target 70 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 30-100 --shaders 1280
If I helped, make a tip :-)
Thx mate, you saved me some time! Will send some BTC your way soon
Seems stable so far:
thanks
i tried this but I can't get any to be accepted by the pool
i'll tip whoever can get me a working setting
using cgminer for VERT
You can't get CGminer to work for Vert. You need Vertminer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5n70hj3izjj64y1/vertminer-0.5.3.zip i tried this but I can't get any to be accepted by the pool
i'll tip whoever can get me a working setting
using cgminer for VERT
using 270s and can only get 5-10 in WU
}
any reason why?
Code:
{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338",
"user" : "swaneon.1",
"pass" : "pppp"
},
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338",
"user" : "swaneon.1",
"pass" : "pppp"
},
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338",
"user" : "swaneon.1",
"pass" : "pppp"
}
],
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-engine" : "1100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.125",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"temp-target" : "70",
"intensity" : "12",
"thread-concurrency" : "4448",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"any reason why?
Try dropping your engine and increasing your memclock.
I use the following:
engine 950
memclock 1400
threads 1
tc 14144
intensity 20
That gets me 205kh/s on 1100mV 270s. Average of 1436kh/s and WU ~1336/m.
thanks
i tried this but I can't get any to be accepted by the pool
i'll tip whoever can get me a working setting
using cgminer for VERT
How can I set vertminer to automaticly reconnect when there is an internet connection failure.. pretty much wasted entire night because it failed to connect
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