Greetings to all the people behind WinMiner, and all who read this.
First of all, I'd like to say 'thank you', it's been a good 20 days aboard (mostly good), thank you for the product and all that you have done so far. We, the guys with 2GB VGA memory "notsobad" cards (
), or those with second to none technical skills with miners (I guess), do appreciate the existence of your creation. As you get small part of our computational work - this is happy relationship and I hope it will be more so. This it why I am writing. There are some questions I'd like to address, feel free to respond or ignore me, I mean no ones harm, please forgive my English, it is not my native and not as good as I like it to be, if I offend with some words or misuse them - sorry in advance. Oh - and there are some pictures too. So...
1. sgminer and unrecognized option and all things already said here - will not repeat, but it will be great. Back in the days when bitcoins was so easily mined and dwell in between 5 and 20$ and was sold for that
- I've had some pretty good results with sgminer. Pretty consistent. Yes - consistensy, onward...
2. The estimated profit numbers - ALL over the place for me. With many miners and coins. And winminer is looking me in the eyes and tells me lies. May be it is just me, but I do have 2 monitors and keep an eye on both Winminer GUI and miner command prompt window while reading - the hashrate stays (relatively) constant, but even on 1 session - the expected reward swings sometimes 300% back and forth and back again. Most of the time more like 50 to 100%, which is irritating enough, so to want to do something about it. Is it from the miner, is it from the pool, is it from me, should i move to other miner, what can I do...? The picture below shows mining KRB in 18 minutes time - same hashrate, once it is showing 1.90$/day profit, after a very short while - 1.01$/day. Then back up again. And have seen like 0.60$/day. In a matter of minutes. Why? What number is the real number I get. How can i make decision on what to mine with what to mine if I don't have proper information. Should I take it off the list of currencies i mine? How can I take it off if it is my "best" coin? What
is then my best coin?
BTW showing KRB as experiencing largest fluctuations of numbers shown with it. There are more currencies with similar behavior. Today I looked around some mining calculators around the net and putting in my hardware i get like 0.44$/day with KRB. Not that will complain if you give me, like 1.20$/day for something that costs 0.44$/day, but it is not good, generally speaking, and if it is showing 1.20 and I get 0.44 is ... well, not good. You get my point.
First image is from 03.08.2017, when i start thinking about writing you about this, so made some screenshots, to back up my words.
http://imgur.com/a/vxAB9And 3 hours ago, still auto on choosing what/where/with what to mine
http://imgur.com/a/pIBJ93. I know you guys work on this hard, and I see progress and things added, refined and polished. I salute you for your work. But some things are rough. Basic ones. Look at the picture below. It is me, spontaneously zooming my days work, random day, on the website, 'Statistics' tab, 12 hours interval, took the same 03.08.2017 for example, but when scroll back and forth it's more or less the same every day. "
The WinMiner software analyzes each systems and automatically determines which miner to use and which coin to mine .... in order to maximize the return." . Well, it tries. But sometimes misses I guess. I have not been on the computer at this time. The bar interval is 10 minutes, as it illustrates better (I think). And for those using speech engines tired of reading will sum it up - there are HUGE differences in profit, from 0.00087$ in 10 minutes, trough 0.009$ in 10 minutes, to 0.015$ in 10 minutes (for faster readers - count the zeros). The difference (for 10 minutes work in 6 hours interval) is 17.35 times. Or in percentage - 1735%. Bit of a scary number. This cannot be explained with the program bench-marking, the internet gone, or the price of the specific coin up or down. If the pool we're connected goes off I've seen winminer starting again, so it is not that too.
http://imgur.com/a/19BWoFor me - it's the program choosing not the best job there is. Or it is an issue connected with the one I spoke earlier (p.2). That goes again choosing not the best job there is and so on and on...
4. Here is another, this time suggestion, I think no one have mentioned it and can be pretty useful. It can resolve partially at least (or for the most part) "numbers" and "consistency" deviations. And can be beneficial to us all.
The program (winminer) does collect data while it works. It's on the statistics page on the website. I doubt that is all from the logs. Or that it can be all from logs. So it is possible to collect, and split up, and visualize for a given period of time "anyone's" specific hardware configuration's work. For the day, may be better I think, or whatever suits you. For that period for - what WAS the most profitable coin, or miner, or coin/miner duo that have worked on YOUR machine. With something visual, like bars with numbers, horizontal with different length, for a fair (statistically) amount of time. Like "for the last 24 hours you've had X, Y, Z coins mined (with corresponding miner, and/or any other info) AND for that 24 hours you have mined coin X at rate 0.0065$ per 10 minutes, coin Y at rate 0.0059$ per 10 minutes, coin Z... etc. You get it? I will not post a picture of 'stacked bar chart'
, if someone needs one - Microsoft Word / Insert menu/ Charts or google it. This way one can decide
for real what is more profitable for his hardware to mine. For that moment in time, at least. Because honestly - I never got those 2.22$/day from the second picture. Nor the 1.57$/day.
The reason writing for the last more than hour is - now I have my machine, and for 20 hours per day it does nothing, and I am using it with WinMiner. Since the ETH became... well... hard to mine - there are a lot of nice not so expensive 2GB VGA cards around me, if I am able to evaluate the possible profit of a card with WinMiner I can build relatively inexpensive rig and give it a go. WinMiner is a very welcome option for me, esp. with the ability to choose what to mine with what miner to mine, backups are awesome, but all in the end for me goes to simple calculation - if I invest thousands of $$ in 8 cards rig it will mater how fast those come back. It will no longer be a matter of 1.20 or 1.50$/day
But I need reliable Winminer for that.
Well, you said "help and feedback". This is me, helping and feed-backing. Good night all. With ClathmoreDualEthBlake on R9 270X at the moment - signing off.
because among other things changed the new version it seems nullifies some preferences - in my case allowed miners list. Not sure about that, will check next update. And also more importantly - it seems you have been playing with miners. I've noticed it, when got home from work and found sgminer screen stuck black and apparently frozen, and behind it winminer doing nothing. Until recently when sgminer was tested and rejected it was like dosprompt windows popping up, giving error inside and closing, and next miner (sometimes other sgminer) took place until good one gets to work. Now it seems while bench-marking when it's sgminer's time - it crashes with "send/don't send" message, and not rolling on until that message is closed manually with "oh f#@$ off" button. Hold on, I'll clear the benchmark results to force it again and try capturing it.
