How do I know if I am correctly solo mining? My cards are all hashing, but the cmd line keeps refreshing with “new block detected on network” and then the block changes.

I have been having trouble solo mining. My client cgminerbis finding and rejecting blocks instantly despite following everything in the guide. Do i need to set my wallet file to mine as well? If so what settings do i adjust?

How do I know if I am correctly solo mining? My cards are all hashing, but the cmd line keeps refreshing with “new block detected on network” and then the block changes.

In case you missed it I edited my post with some details that might help. I encountered the same issues with cgminer that you did and that link helped me construct working batch files for my hardware. Having one thing off in your batch file can crash everything, so minding your “grammar” when constructing it is paramount.

EDIT: Incidentally, is this information on batch files stickied anywhere else in this forum? Getting to people to mine as much as they can as often as they can is key in pushing FTC up to big boy territory with BTC and LTC 8)

EDIT 2: Yes there is. Check out the mining sub-forum in addition to the above links. If you are still having trouble that is the place to go.

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I believe cgminer dropped support for scrypt mining after 3.7.2, so I would look for that version. Incidentally that is what I use and it seems to be stabler and more efficient than guiminer.
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Thanks but I just downloaded that version and its crashing again. Is there something else it could be?
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A number of factors could be affecting you. Cgminer doesnt like having less than 2gb of ram. If you have more than that i would look at the software angle. Did you uninstall your drivers completely before reinstall? Is your batch file set up with the proper hardware specs (shaders, thread concurrency, etc)? Is your batch file syntax correct? As in it properly points at your account? And have you reset since switching versions of cgminer?

EDIT: If it helps, this is an approximation of my batch file:

“setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
cgminer --scrypt --device 0 -o https://coinotron.com:3337 -u myaccount.miner -p mypassword -I 14 -g 1 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8000 --shaders 1536”

Also here is a link to setting up cgminer that helped me: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=7722.0

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Hey thanks i figured out how to link it to my wallet, however now im haing another issue.

GUIminer started going slow so i thought i would try CGminer cause people say its faster.

Everytime i run the .bat file it instantly closes. Is there something i am doing wrong? I tried reinstalling my graphics driver but still nothing.

The version of CGminer is 3.8.4 and this is what I wrote this in my notepad

cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool.fcpool.com :3334 -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --intensity 13

Any ideas?

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I believe cgminer dropped support for scrypt mining after 3.7.2, so I would look for that version. Incidentally that is what I use and it seems to be stabler and more efficient than guiminer.