mining on windows

[AcidD]

@digga said in mining on windows:

Thanks Acid, I tried nsgminer yesterday and got the following

All devices disabled, cannot mine!

When i tried version 0.9.2 - the app just crashes.

hmmm that could be a driver issue you need to install the AMD OpenCL drivers as well as others like the AMD SDK etc

[ghostlander]

nsgminer -k neoscrypt_vliwp -g 1 -w 128 -I 13

Should do better on a HD58x0

[digga]

@ghostlander said in mining on windows:

nsgminer -k neoscrypt_vliwp -g 1 -w 128 -I 13

Should do better on a HD58x0

i’ve now installed AMD openCl drivers, AMD SDK and it still comes back with “All devices disabled, cannot mine!”

Any ideas?

[ChekaZ]

@digga Its a driver error. You need to downgrade to 14.7 RC3 I believe.

[digga]

@chekaz ah alright, if that’s the reason I think i’ll leave it :)

thanks

[wrapper]

@digga Its worth having a go (trying differn’t drivers). It’s really the tricky part of getting mining going on Windows or Linux … The hardest thing is finding the driver and then then all reboots installing it.

Make sure you boot to safe mode and run the ati / amd clean-up utility, before installing the driver.

[ghostlander]

If mining with older cards on Windows 7/8, use either v15.7.1 if you also do some regular work there or v14.7 RC3 if just mining.

[digga]

@ghostlander Thanks. I’ve downgraded the driver to give it a whirl.

This suggests a hash rate of 43 ?

nsgminer v0.9.3 - NeoScrypt : [2017-11-29 09:38:36] - [ 0 days 00:06:29]

5s: 43.2 avg: 35.7 u: 0.0 KH/s | A:0 R:0 S:0 HW:0 WU:0.00/m
ST:2 DW:18 GW:9 LW:39 GF:0 NB:2 AS:0 RF:0 E:0.00
Connected to hidden
Block: 0x4739B80F8AC91BCF… #1984123 [09:43:07] Diff:428K Best:0

[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
OCL 0: 66.0C 2353RPM | 36.2 35.7 0.0 KH/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m

[09:38:35] Probing for an alive pool
[09:38:36] The network difficulty has been set to 456607
[09:38:36] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[09:38:53] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[09:39:48] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[09:39:48] Pool 0 is hiding block contents from us
[09:40:43] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[09:41:37] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[09:42:33] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[09:43:07] The network difficulty has been set to 428070
[09:43:07] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[09:44:02] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[09:44:57] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart

i’m using this:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
“C:\nsgminer-win64-0.9.3\nsgminer.exe” -k neoscrypt_vliwp -g 1 -w 128 -I 13

Should I be able to get more than this on my card?

[Lordas]

Very good with such old card, basic settings and such temp.

[ghostlander]

@digga Should be higher. Delete old *.bin files after changing the drivers or OpenCL SDK. You can also try the neoscrypt_vliw kernel with an increased intensity.

[digga]

@ghostlander what .bin files are you referring to ?

[ghostlander]

@digga Compiled kernels named like neoscryptvliwpBeaverCreekgw128l8.bin