The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread - page 30.

debido666

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Quote from: Sinyk7 on February 06, 2014, 02:24:53 PM

Quote from: debido666 on February 06, 2014, 02:07:26 PM

Quote from: Sinyk7 on February 06, 2014, 12:59:04 PM

I spent a couple hours last night trying to get my ASUS R9 270X HW error free and I could not find a TC setting that worked for it. Considering the lack of temperature and fan controls since i ported it into BAMT, I decided to move that rig back to scrypt for now. I don't know if the issue is with the R9 series cards, that card itself or the fact that I ported it to BAMT, but there's obviously issues and I hope that maybe a vertminer specific bamt version will be made someday.

I'm not having any problems. Vertminer 0.5.3 PowerColor PCS+ R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 TC 9995 I 12 G 1 Gap 2 Stock Clock. Temp stuff working fine. Downclocks/downvolts when it can not meet desired temp. Runs 72C.

Are you running vertminer within bamt though or on windows. Also, what hashrate are you getting with those settings? My issue is my 270x is in a rig with a few 7950's that run at -g 1 not 2, so this setting won't really work for me.

vertminer 0.5.3 on windows 8.1, one thread because the card only has 2 GB. ~160 KH/s ~160 WU. Computer has 8 GB ram. At going rate, ~1 coin per day.

Sinyk7

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Quote from: debido666 on February 06, 2014, 02:07:26 PM

Quote from: Sinyk7 on February 06, 2014, 12:59:04 PM

I spent a couple hours last night trying to get my ASUS R9 270X HW error free and I could not find a TC setting that worked for it. Considering the lack of temperature and fan controls since i ported it into BAMT, I decided to move that rig back to scrypt for now. I don't know if the issue is with the R9 series cards, that card itself or the fact that I ported it to BAMT, but there's obviously issues and I hope that maybe a vertminer specific bamt version will be made someday.

I'm not having any problems. Vertminer 0.5.3 PowerColor PCS+ R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 TC 9995 I 12 G 1 Gap 2 Stock Clock. Temp stuff working fine. Downclocks/downvolts when it can not meet desired temp. Runs 72C.

Are you running vertminer within BAMT though or on windows? I was running in BAMT Also, what hashrate are you getting with those settings?

adaseb

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The card was not overheating. IT was on -i 12.

It ran 10C lower than my regular doge coin script.

debido666

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Quote from: pinkie31 on February 06, 2014, 02:12:00 PM

hELLO, could anybody help, ive got my gtx 660 (i know its shit) hashing at 90 , is there anyway of getting my even shittier gt240 going?? I am using cudaminer.

I'd go here and ask.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-cudaminer-ccminer-cuda-based-mining-applications-windowslinuxmacosx-167229

pinkie31

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hELLO, could anybody help, ive got my gtx 660 (i know its shit) hashing at 90 , is there anyway of getting my even shittier gt240 going?? I am using cudaminer.

debido666

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Quote from: Sinyk7 on February 06, 2014, 12:59:04 PM

I spent a couple hours last night trying to get my ASUS R9 270X HW error free and I could not find a TC setting that worked for it. Considering the lack of temperature and fan controls since i ported it into BAMT, I decided to move that rig back to scrypt for now. I don't know if the issue is with the R9 series cards, that card itself or the fact that I ported it to BAMT, but there's obviously issues and I hope that maybe a vertminer specific bamt version will be made someday.

I'm not having any problems. Vertminer 0.5.3 PowerColor PCS+ R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 TC 9995 I 12 G 1 Gap 2 Stock Clock. Temp stuff working fine. Downclocks/downvolts when it can not meet desired temp. Runs 72C.

cyiwin

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Quote from: adaseb on February 06, 2014, 01:36:24 PM

WARNING!

Mine VTC at your own risk. Don't mine if you don't have warranty on your GPU.

Last night one of my GPUs started going CRAZY. Fan went to max speed, and in vertminer the temp was 511C.

I read earlier here was another individual who had the same issue who posted on

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A word of warning. I don't know if it's really related, but after mining vertcoin for a few days, 2 of my rigs exhibited a problem. Some of the cards showed 511 C temp and 0 RPM, and then the computer froze. This then happened all the time even after many reboots, after I changed the risers around and changed riser power, it started working again.
2 of my 7950 with this problem, after this, did not hash over 580 KH/s on normal cgminer anymore (previously 620 KH/s steady). One of my 280X now seems to have stability issues and for some reason lower temperature, and auto-fan speed for this card is consistently lower than on all my other cards.

After I got this 511C error. I went straight to my old cgminer with my old config mining the old Doge Coin. After an hour, that exact GPU got the 511 C error. Computer completely frozen. It must of caused some permanent damage.

Makes me a little nervous since I'm all in VTC right now. I wonder how it could damage the equipment, do you think the temperature is getting too high and the fan isn't ramping correctly? I've had the 511C problem before while mining regular scrypt coins using cgminer 3.7.2 but it didn't permanently damage my card. It's been awhile but I think I got it working again by rebooting Windows. It may have been the time I had to disconnect the power, reseat the video card and the pcie power connectors.

Sinyk7

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I actually recall seeing that 511C before, but I don't remember which card it was on. I have actually switched all of my cards back to scrypt for the time being and i'm going to monitor them for issues.

adaseb

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Yes this was on one of my R9 270X cards.

This was using cgminer modded for Linux

Sinyk7

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Quote from: adaseb on February 06, 2014, 01:36:24 PM

WARNING!

Mine VTC at your own risk. Don't mine if you don't have warranty on your GPU.

Last night one of my GPUs started going CRAZY. Fan went to max speed, and in vertminer the temp was 511C.

I read earlier here was another individual who had the same issue who posted on

Quote

A word of warning. I don't know if it's really related, but after mining vertcoin for a few days, 2 of my rigs exhibited a problem. Some of the cards showed 511 C temp and 0 RPM, and then the computer froze. This then happened all the time even after many reboots, after I changed the risers around and changed riser power, it started working again.
2 of my 7950 with this problem, after this, did not hash over 580 KH/s on normal cgminer anymore (previously 620 KH/s steady). One of my 280X now seems to have stability issues and for some reason lower temperature, and auto-fan speed for this card is consistently lower than on all my other cards.

After I got this 511C error. I went straight to my old cgminer with my old config mining the old Doge Coin. After an hour, that exact GPU got the 511 C error. Computer completely frozen. It must of caused some permanent damage.

I wonder if however vertminer uses resources on your card is the reason my R9 270X wouldn't get stable.

adaseb

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WARNING!

Mine VTC at your own risk. Don't mine if you don't have warranty on your GPU.

Last night one of my GPUs started going CRAZY. Fan went to max speed, and in vertminer the temp was 511C.

I read earlier here was another individual who had the same issue who posted on

Quote

A word of warning. I don't know if it's really related, but after mining vertcoin for a few days, 2 of my rigs exhibited a problem. Some of the cards showed 511 C temp and 0 RPM, and then the computer froze. This then happened all the time even after many reboots, after I changed the risers around and changed riser power, it started working again.
2 of my 7950 with this problem, after this, did not hash over 580 KH/s on normal cgminer anymore (previously 620 KH/s steady). One of my 280X now seems to have stability issues and for some reason lower temperature, and auto-fan speed for this card is consistently lower than on all my other cards.

After I got this 511C error. I went straight to my old cgminer with my old config mining the old Doge Coin. After an hour, that exact GPU got the 511 C error. Computer completely frozen. It must of caused some permanent damage.

thrilled

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Quote from: executivul on February 06, 2014, 11:01:36 AM

Quote from: thrilled on February 06, 2014, 10:54:03 AM

I am clueless......

I have 2 x Sapphire Tri-X 290x cards...

I am running the perfectly fine at 988 Khz each on any "normal" scrypt alt coin. Using I 20, 24600 thread conc, 1000 gpu engine. 1500 memory. This gives me NO HW at all.

Now I wanted to transition over to Vect coins... this has ended up in a total fail...

The miner I have currently has 4 gb ram.

Using anything higher then 8192 tc makes the cards go disabled. Using any intensity higher then 13 makes the HW run mad. Going i13 and tc 8192 gives me a hash rate of about 280khz per card which is way less it should be. Using intensity 19-20 gives me around 470khz but then the hardware errors are INSANE. I have tried to adjust the config file so many times and it all ends up with the same results.

I am using vectminer 0.5.3

I am in dire need of your help here!

Thanks in advance!

/T

Exactly the same here, TC 8192 gets me tons of HW errors at anything over I 13, can not run larger TC because of -4 error.
The solution is 8GB ram, but unfortunately my old Asus MBs only accept 2 ram modules and both slots are taken, memory is expensive, so I let these rigs run Doge.
Maybe Linux could help since ram requirements are different but I'm not in the mood to try it...

Hmmm more ram... well that can be solved... I have completely new motherboard and I think I have like 128 GB ram in 16 GB modules lying somewhere too

magikarp88

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Can anyone please help me?

Quote from: magikarp88 on February 06, 2014, 02:54:34 AM

http://i.imgur.com/ys4Ve1e.png

My conf is:

{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://mine1.coinmine.pl:6350",
"user" : "user.user",
"pass" : "pw"
}

]
,
"scrypt" : true
}

and my bat is

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer --scrypt --intensity 12 -g 1 -w 64 -o stratum+tcp://mine1.coinmine.pl:6350 -u user.user -p pw

I'm using a 6870 but shouldn't I be getting somewhere around 150 k/hs? How do I fix this?

Sinyk7

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I spent a couple hours last night trying to get my ASUS R9 270X HW error free and I could not find a TC setting that worked for it. Considering the lack of temperature and fan controls since i ported it into BAMT, I decided to move that rig back to scrypt for now. I don't know if the issue is with the R9 series cards, that card itself or the fact that I ported it to BAMT, but there's obviously issues and I hope that maybe a vertminer specific bamt version will be made someday.

paulo_thork

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is normal many STRATUM FROM POOL 0 REQUEST WORK RESTART in cgminer mod?

http://alojaimagens.com/images/b3bucrlokfbvfs6t9hbn.jpg

sharted

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Hi, just tried vertcoin for the first time and managed to get it optimized fairly quickly thanks to this thread. A couple of interesting points regarding my msi 2gb 7850 oc edition. As with most 7850 cards running normal scrypt coins 8192 is the best and perhaps the only tc that didn't give me hardware errors with intensity above 12. As for my xfx dd black edition 7950 my scrypt settings also remained the same except I lowered tc to 19712 and it seems to be optimal. Also, when using i=20 with the 7950 my hashrate dropped so i=19 seems to be optimal. With my 7950 I get about 310kh/s and the 7850 175 kh/s and no hardware errors at all. Here is my batch file with settings (7950,7850):

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://stratum.ecurie.io:3333 -u secret -p x --thread-concurrency 19712,8192 --intensity 19,17 --gpu-engine 1100,1000 --gpu-memclock 1500,1250 --gpu-powertune 20,0

Also worth noting that I also use the exact same settings for my 7850 with normal scrypt mining.

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Quote from: thrilled on February 06, 2014, 10:54:03 AM

I am clueless......

I have 2 x Sapphire Tri-X 290x cards...

I am running the perfectly fine at 988 Khz each on any "normal" scrypt alt coin. Using I 20, 24600 thread conc, 1000 gpu engine. 1500 memory. This gives me NO HW at all.

Now I wanted to transition over to Vect coins... this has ended up in a total fail...

The miner I have currently has 4 gb ram.

Using anything higher then 8192 tc makes the cards go disabled. Using any intensity higher then 13 makes the HW run mad. Going i13 and tc 8192 gives me a hash rate of about 280khz per card which is way less it should be. Using intensity 19-20 gives me around 470khz but then the hardware errors are INSANE. I have tried to adjust the config file so many times and it all ends up with the same results.

I am using vectminer 0.5.3

I am in dire need of your help here!

Thanks in advance!

/T

Try to get a total of 8Gb ram. It's being overwritten too many times at the high concurrencies b/c you don't have enough of it. The fact that your program will run for a little bit instead of insta-crash seems to indicate ram being overwritten.

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Quote from: rarkep on February 05, 2014, 10:14:34 PM

I figured it was time for me to post since I can't figure it out after trying for quite some time.
I have two Diamond 7970s and I'm using the following .bat:

setx GPU_MAX_MEMORY_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
--gpu-engine 1010 --gpu-memclock 1440 -I 12 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 4096 -g 2 -w 512

It's giving me 225Kh/s. If I bump -i to 13 I get tons of HW errors. I've tried setting TC to 8192, 8191, or 8193 as others have said and it gives the this error:

Maximum buffer memory device 0 supports says 536870912
Your scrypt settings come to 1073610752
Error -61: clCreateBuffer (padbuffer8), decrease TC or increase LG

I've also tried setting -g to 1 or 3 and neither is better.
Tried playing with -w and nothing better

Anyone have any ideas?

Your 225 KH/s sounds nominal for a 7970, but try this: -I 13 --lookup-gap 2 -g 2 -w 188 --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 6112

Also try -w 256 to see if you can do that without the OpenCL compiler failing, or showing hw errs.

executivul

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Quote from: thrilled on February 06, 2014, 10:54:03 AM

I am clueless......

I have 2 x Sapphire Tri-X 290x cards...

I am running the perfectly fine at 988 Khz each on any "normal" scrypt alt coin. Using I 20, 24600 thread conc, 1000 gpu engine. 1500 memory. This gives me NO HW at all.

Now I wanted to transition over to Vect coins... this has ended up in a total fail...

The miner I have currently has 4 gb ram.

Using anything higher then 8192 tc makes the cards go disabled. Using any intensity higher then 13 makes the HW run mad. Going i13 and tc 8192 gives me a hash rate of about 280khz per card which is way less it should be. Using intensity 19-20 gives me around 470khz but then the hardware errors are INSANE. I have tried to adjust the config file so many times and it all ends up with the same results.

I am using vectminer 0.5.3

I am in dire need of your help here!

Thanks in advance!

/T

Exactly the same here, TC 8192 gets me tons of HW errors at anything over I 13, can not run larger TC because of -4 error.
The solution is 8GB ram, but unfortunately my old Asus MBs only accept 2 ram modules and both slots are taken, memory is expensive, so I let these rigs run Doge.
Maybe Linux could help since ram requirements are different but I'm not in the mood to try it...

thrilled

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I am clueless......

I have 2 x Sapphire Tri-X 290x cards...

I am running the perfectly fine at 988 Khz each on any "normal" scrypt alt coin. Using I 20, 24600 thread conc, 1000 gpu engine. 1500 memory. This gives me NO HW at all.

Now I wanted to transition over to Vect coins... this has ended up in a total fail...

The miner I have currently has 4 gb ram.

Using anything higher then 8192 tc makes the cards go disabled. Using any intensity higher then 13 makes the HW run mad. Going i13 and tc 8192 gives me a hash rate of about 280khz per card which is way less it should be. Using intensity 19-20 gives me around 470khz but then the hardware errors are INSANE. I have tried to adjust the config file so many times and it all ends up with the same results.

I am using vectminer 0.5.3

I am in dire need of your help here!

Thanks in advance!

/T

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