Someone please help...

Okay so I started a thread yesterday in newbies but it seems to have died, bit like my mining lol…

So here is where I’m at…

I am using guiminer (is this possible?) Anyone using it?

I have linked to the pool is a geek and when I use the suggested port it registers my hashes but on th gui I only get stales…

Then if I use port 3333 the miner registers accepted shares but the pool says I am not active and wont register anything…

When I use port 3333 I do not change the url because when I do (add the startum part) it will not start and gives me errors…

What am I doing wrong here?

I have tried other pools but get the same result… Oh incidentally when I was switched between the ports a single share would get registered on is a geek website… So I have 2 shares on there now but the miner said I had a couple hundred!

Its so strange! Grrrrrrrrrr

Some more info… I just tried cgminer on it’s own and I could get it to start by using the http://feathercoin.is-a-geek:3333 url and port combination… But if I use the 8341 port cgminer wont start and windows shuts it down…

So this is defo looking like a ports issue… Do I need to open any oprts my end? Is there some remedy for this? Anyone had the same problem?

Just tried with this stratum+tcp://feathercoin.is-a-geek.com:3333

and it loaded up… But still there are no shares being accepted, but then no stales either…

The last comment is thread 1 being disabled, which doesn’t sound good… It does show my hashrate, so it is working, mny gpu that is…

Out of curiosity I just reinstalled the bitminter client and I entered my details and off it went without a hitch, super easy…

What the hell am I doing wrong with the others?

Any ideas at all would be appreciated…

SUCCESS, well kind of… I am getting shares and they are registering… The miner says I am getting 530kh ish, but the shares seem to be slow, is that normal for feathercoin? I opnly have 8 so far… In bitminter I would have maybe 30 or something in that time, maybe more.

Anyway the worst is over thank god! lol

ShadowEW

A little disheartening that no-one has managed to or offered to help you so far, BUT, I can try and offer a little help. :3

So far, due to the lower difficulty, I’ve noticed I’m getting a lot more shares come through, and rather than boosting my khash I’ve noticed that increasing the number of threads I have running greatly benefits and pushes out a lot more accepted shares.

In cgminer, it’s usually towards the bottom of your cgminer.conf
[code]“gpu-threads” : “x”,[/code]
Play around with this value and try to find a good balance between your khash and accepted share count.

In reaper, it’s found within the litecoin.conf as
[code]threads_per_gpu x[/code]
Again, play around with the value and find what’s optimal.

In cgminer my 7970s run best on “5”, in Reaper “16”.

Hope I’ve been some help. ^^;

[quote name=“ShadowEW” post=“586” timestamp=“1367580197”]
A little disheartening that no-one has managed to or offered to help you so far, BUT, I can try and offer a little help. :3

So far, due to the lower difficulty, I’ve noticed I’m getting a lot more shares come through, and rather than boosting my khash I’ve noticed that increasing the number of threads I have running greatly benefits and pushes out a lot more accepted shares.

In cgminer, it’s usually towards the bottom of your cgminer.conf
[code]“gpu-threads” : “x”,[/code]
Play around with this value and try to find a good balance between your khash and accepted share count.

In reaper, it’s found within the litecoin.conf as
[code]threads_per_gpu x[/code]
Again, play around with the value and find what’s optimal.

In cgminer my 7970s run best on “5”, in Reaper “16”.

Hope I’ve been some help. ^^;
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Sorry for the late reply mate and thanks for your comment, it did get a little disheartening when I had made about 10 posts for no return… Started to think I smelled, lol…

Anyway as an update I have got it working a lot better than it was but I have noticed some odd things… Like when I had the intensity at anything above 13 it gets worse, suprisingly, lol

I am currently overclocking to the max and squeezing out 554khash… I thought I would be able to do better…

Now as for your kind advice, I am running guiminer scrypt alpha… The only one I could get to work… But it is actually pretty stable and easy to use…

So any way there is an option for gpu threads, is this the number you are referring too? Btw I have a 7970 for comparisons sake…

Can I change that number considering I only have one gpu?

Thanks again for the reply.

I have now put it to the low usage 7970 settings and I am getting around 590khash… Shares seem to be coming in better… Where do you think I can tweak it from here?

I tried the gpu threads thing but that crashed the comp in the end, lol… I tried 5 and things went slow, so I tried 2 and that was better than 5 but still slower… Not sure if that is the same thing you were talking about…

Still you do not know the releif I got from actually sorting it out finally, I still don’t know what the issue was…

ShadowEW

[quote name=“snaz31” post=“651” timestamp=“1367589359”]
[quote author=ShadowEW link=topic=155.msg586#msg586 date=1367580197]
A little disheartening that no-one has managed to or offered to help you so far, BUT, I can try and offer a little help. :3

So far, due to the lower difficulty, I’ve noticed I’m getting a lot more shares come through, and rather than boosting my khash I’ve noticed that increasing the number of threads I have running greatly benefits and pushes out a lot more accepted shares.

In cgminer, it’s usually towards the bottom of your cgminer.conf
[code]“gpu-threads” : “x”,[/code]
Play around with this value and try to find a good balance between your khash and accepted share count.

In reaper, it’s found within the litecoin.conf as
[code]threads_per_gpu x[/code]
Again, play around with the value and find what’s optimal.

In cgminer my 7970s run best on “5”, in Reaper “16”.

Hope I’ve been some help. ^^;
[/quote]

Sorry for the late reply mate and thanks for your comment, it did get a little disheartening when I had made about 10 posts for no return… Started to think I smelled, lol…

Anyway as an update I have got it working a lot better than it was but I have noticed some odd things… Like when I had the intensity at anything above 13 it gets worse, suprisingly, lol

I am currently overclocking to the max and squeezing out 554khash… I thought I would be able to do better…

Now as for your kind advice, I am running guiminer scrypt alpha… The only one I could get to work… But it is actually pretty stable and easy to use…

So any way there is an option for gpu threads, is this the number you are referring too? Btw I have a 7970 for comparisons sake…

Can I change that number considering I only have one gpu?

Thanks again for the reply.
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In the GUI you use it’s called ‘GPU Threads’.

I use 2 7970s and can eek 600khash each out of them at the moment and that seems to be my max.

This is my cgminer bat for my 7970s (XFX DD):
[code]color 0D
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer -T --verbose -o pool -u user.worker -p password --scrypt --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 8192 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-memclock 1790 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 20-100 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-target 80 --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 [/code]

Unfortunately I can’t offer you any advice for Reaper at present as I have nothing to hand (haven’t tried Reaper with my 7970s on FTC yet) but, I can update this post, reply to you a little later this evening when I get home and give you my config/findings if you’d like. ^^

It’s also worth noting that the Intensity limit for 7970s (Of any brand) IS 13. You won’t have a pleasant mining experience with values 14-20. The 7950 is the best mining GPU at present and can be pushed to I=20. :P

And that the ‘setx’ commands I have in my batch allows 100% of the GPU to be used. It’s a messy fix (and because Microsoft are pretty lazy) but it does the trick of letting you tweak that little bit more from 79xx GPUs.
Just run those two commands from cmd before your miner.

Edit: You might not notice any difference at all from those two setx commands, that’s actually quite normal and I guess it’s more reliant on the exact build of Windows you use. Reported improvements vary from 1kash to over 100khash xD

[quote name=“ShadowEW” post=“660” timestamp=“1367590580”]
[quote author=snaz31 link=topic=155.msg651#msg651 date=1367589359]
[quote author=ShadowEW link=topic=155.msg586#msg586 date=1367580197]
A little disheartening that no-one has managed to or offered to help you so far, BUT, I can try and offer a little help. :3

So far, due to the lower difficulty, I’ve noticed I’m getting a lot more shares come through, and rather than boosting my khash I’ve noticed that increasing the number of threads I have running greatly benefits and pushes out a lot more accepted shares.

In cgminer, it’s usually towards the bottom of your cgminer.conf
[code]“gpu-threads” : “x”,[/code]
Play around with this value and try to find a good balance between your khash and accepted share count.

In reaper, it’s found within the litecoin.conf as
[code]threads_per_gpu x[/code]
Again, play around with the value and find what’s optimal.

In cgminer my 7970s run best on “5”, in Reaper “16”.

Hope I’ve been some help. ^^;
[/quote]

Sorry for the late reply mate and thanks for your comment, it did get a little disheartening when I had made about 10 posts for no return… Started to think I smelled, lol…

Anyway as an update I have got it working a lot better than it was but I have noticed some odd things… Like when I had the intensity at anything above 13 it gets worse, suprisingly, lol

I am currently overclocking to the max and squeezing out 554khash… I thought I would be able to do better…

Now as for your kind advice, I am running guiminer scrypt alpha… The only one I could get to work… But it is actually pretty stable and easy to use…

So any way there is an option for gpu threads, is this the number you are referring too? Btw I have a 7970 for comparisons sake…

Can I change that number considering I only have one gpu?

Thanks again for the reply.
[/quote]

In the GUI you use it’s called ‘GPU Threads’.

I use 2 7970s and can eek 600khash each out of them at the moment and that seems to be my max.

This is my cgminer bat for my 7970s (XFX DD):
[code]color 0D
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer -T --verbose -o pool -u user.worker -p password --scrypt --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 8192 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-memclock 1790 --auto-fan --gpu-fan 20-100 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-target 80 --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2 [/code]

Unfortunately I can’t offer you any advice for Reaper at present as I have nothing to hand (haven’t tried Reaper with my 7970s on FTC yet) but, I can update this post, reply to you a little later this evening when I get home and give you my config/findings if you’d like. ^^

It’s also worth noting that the Intensity limit for 7970s (Of any brand) IS 13. You won’t have a pleasant mining experience with values 14-20. The 7950 is the best mining GPU at present and can be pushed to I=20. :P

And that the ‘setx’ commands I have in my batch allows 100% of the GPU to be used. It’s a messy fix (and because Microsoft are pretty lazy) but it does the trick of letting you tweak that little bit more from 79xx GPUs.
Just run those two commands from cmd before your miner.

Edit: You might not notice any difference at all from those two setx commands, that’s actually quite normal and I guess it’s more reliant on the exact build of Windows you use. Reported improvements vary from 1kash to over 100khash xD
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Cheers for the advice dude, to be honest I have no idea which miner I’m using within guiminer… It is whatever the default one is… And if you are pushing 600 that isn’t too far from the 590 I’m getting at the moment so I am content with that…

Yeah I made a boo boo mate… I chose the 7970 because I heard it hashes faster than the 7950 but then when everything is factored in the 7950 becomes the much better choice…

Oh well, you live and learn and I will be purchasing a few 7950’s soon, I think GPU mining is long from dead :)…

I think I will keep the 7970 for gaming and just mine with it on the side, once I get the 7950’s.

I will probably bust a brain vessel when I have to get multiple gpus up and running! lol…

Cheers for your advice and look forward to chatting again soon, and may the feathercoin FLY! Pun intended… lol

ShadowEW

Having really bad luck with these 7970s and Reaper, I just cannot get any form of stability. Cgminer has also developed a lot of issues for me now and it’s only on FTC pools… Maybe the end is nigh before I even got anywhere x: