How to mine VCT(Verticoin)

[Silver_Pharaoh]

yes + you can use the force and run cgwatcher on this as per my orig post


torin just give it a bit of time, it should level up then

0 Stales then

Mcxnow has it's own kinda coin: mcxBUX, you can payban ppl and buy account upgrades and stuff

 

[dyckah]

having issues currently with getting my second 280x to get over 300kh/s on vertcoin atm.
tried a whole bunch of different clock settings, i manage to get 300kh/s with 1000/1500, and with 1000/1800.
any higher on the core clock, and hash falls. anywhere in between, or lower on the ram clock, and hash falls.
my other 280x runs 340kh/s with 1000/1800.
got the normal 280x setup otherwise though, g2, w256, i13, tc8192.
any ideas for me here? would like to have it doing 320-330kh/s

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

having issues currently with getting my second 280x to get over 300kh/s on vertcoin atm.
tried a whole bunch of different clock settings, i manage to get 300kh/s with 1000/1500, and with 1000/1800.
any higher on the core clock, and hash falls. anywhere in between, or lower on the ram clock, and hash falls.
my other 280x runs 340kh/s with 1000/1800.
got the normal 280x setup otherwise though, g2, w256, i13, tc8192.
any ideas for me here? would like to have it doing 320-330kh/s

Make sure you lower the TC down from your original cgminer settings.
This modded cgminer seems to need lower TC..

Try higher intensity, I use -I 17 when I want to go full tilt.

 

[dyckah]

Make sure you lower the TC down from your original cgminer settings.
This modded cgminer seems to need lower TC..

Try higher intensity, I use -I 17 when I want to go full tilt.

One of my 280x does just fine(340kh) at 8192. Just the other one won't go.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

One of my 280x does just fine(340kh) at 8192. Just the other one won't go.

Well did you at least lower the TC just to see if it works??

 

[torin3]

torin just give it a bit of time, it should level up then

I'm thinking I may still have something wrong. The chart for the last 8 hours peaks at 433 Kh/s and seems to be averaging about 385 Kh/s.

In that same time, I've gotten between confirmed and unconfirmed, 0.506 VTC. Which should give me about 1.5 VTC, or about .01 BTC per 24 hours. That is actually a little less than I've been getting at middlecoin. So, if I can't get this fixed, I'm going to move back to MC.

I am running from a batch file. Should I try the config?

Also, I am getting an error that (from memory) says I can't select the kernel in my settings, and it is only partially loading them. Is it somehow losing the pool settings for my second card?

Edit: And of course, checking right before heading to bed, I see the dashboard say I've got 629Kh/s.....

 

[dyckah]

Well did you at least lower the TC just to see if it works??

Rebooting fixed the issue.
330kh from one card, 340kh from the other.

 

[ivanlabrie]

Getting 345kh/s out of my GTX 780 at 1306mhz core and 1824mhz mem. (damn I didn't notice my mem was so high xD...stock mem at 1500mhz is pretty darn close though)

Settings: cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -d 0 -H 2 -C 1 -l T12x20 -i 0 -o stratum+tcp://s.ny.vertco.in:3333 -u ivanlabrie.1 -p x

Feel free to mine for me if it helps lol

 

[ZL1]

I'm thinking I may still have something wrong. The chart for the last 8 hours peaks at 433 Kh/s and seems to be averaging about 385 Kh/s.

In that same time, I've gotten between confirmed and unconfirmed, 0.506 VTC. Which should give me about 1.5 VTC, or about .01 BTC per 24 hours. That is actually a little less than I've been getting at middlecoin. So, if I can't get this fixed, I'm going to move back to MC.

I am running from a batch file. Should I try the config?

Also, I am getting an error that (from memory) says I can't select the kernel in my settings, and it is only partially loading them. Is it somehow losing the pool settings for my second card?

Edit: And of course, checking right before heading to bed, I see the dashboard say I've got 629Kh/s.....

torin configs are always better, more fine tuning options and easier to organize too
btw verticoin miner cames with a default config makes it easier to get started with configs

 

[torin3]

I get the same error loading from the config file.

This is the error:

[2014-02-07 08:10:57] Invalid config option --kernel: Cannot specify a kernel with scrypt
[2014-02-07 08:10:57] Started vertminer 0.5.2
[2014-02-07 08:10:57] Loaded configuration file vertminer.conf
[2014-02-07 08:10:57] Error in configuration file, partially loaded.

It still run though, either from bat or config.

 

[ZL1]

don't run the bat, start by exe
do you have ?

"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",

 

[xb1az3x]

Got mine setup in BAMT following these directions:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416572.msg4910890#msg4910890

There are a couple of errors in there though. The start.sh should be:

export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100 #if you mine with 280x or 7970, set this to 200
export CGMINER_BIN=/root/Downloads/vertminer-gpu/vertminer
$CGMINER_BIN --scrypt-vert \
--config "/home/user/Desktop/config.conf" \

And if you want to be able to use the BAMT web monitoring you need to add this to the config.conf:

"api-listen" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",

Is it normal for my stats to say I'm mining at 180KH/s but the pool sites are reporting 2-8KH/s? I am getting this an error on startup: "Error in configuration file, partially loaded." but cant figure out the problem.

My full config.conf(Radeon 7850):

{
"pools" : [
    {
        "url" : "stratum+tcp://s.ny.vertco.in:3333",
        "user" : "xxxxxxx",
        "pass" : "xxxxxxx"
    }
],
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : false,
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "77",
"gpu-fan" : "0-100",
"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "2048",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "60",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"gpu-engine" : "0-1100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"no-submit-stale" : true,
"queue" : "9",
"scan-time" : "15",
"scrypt" : true,
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

This is driving me nuts, everything on my end says 190KH/s and its saying 10KH/s on the pools end. Back to a multipool for me I think

 

[torin3]

don't run the bat, start by exe
do you have ?

"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",

I ran with the bat to be able to use the -T flag for logging. I am running from the exe normally.

Here is my config:

"intensity" : "13,13",
"vectors" : "1,1",
"worksize" : "256,256",
"kernel" : "scrypt,scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "6144,6144",
"shaders" : "0,0",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0,0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85,0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "0,0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0,0",
"gpu-powertune" : "-20,-20",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000,0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95,95",
"temp-overheat" : "85,85",
"temp-target" : "75,75",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "30",
"scrypt-vert" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"

 

[Luis_GT]

300khash per 7950, not bad

Edit... just noticed the hardware errors... down to 150khash per card with 0 hardware errors... eh

 

[torin3]

I created another worker account and each has its own pool config. If the hash rate doesn't go above 500 in the next 2 hours or so, I'll go ahead a switch back to middlecoin.

Going to see if they have a newer version of vertminer than 0.5.2....

 

[torin3]

Ok, after some more reading an experimentation, I think I've got a better grasp on what is going on.

Btw, cgminer 3.7.2 that has been modified to run VTC mining seems to be very much inferior to vertminer you get from the link at vertcoin.org.

On 7970s, it seems that you get hardware errors when you run over I 12. I don't know why I was getting hardware errors straight down to I 8 when starting with a batch file, but using vertminer.exe with the config set to I 12, I get 0 hardware errors.

Now the bad news. Running at I 12, I get about 250Kh/s, for a combined total with 2 cards of about 485/505Kh/s. This gets me about 2 VTC per day. When I was running at I 13, it would report in vertminer.exe that I was getting about 350Kh/s per card, but the pool reported pretty much the same numbers as I'm getting now at I 12. So, the hardware errors seem to cancel out the increase in hash rate.

Also, TC seems to need to be under 8192. I can run it from 1048 to 7168 with no real change in performance, but it crashes my video driver at 8192.

2 VTC is about the same as I was getting from from MC, assuming we are in the ballpark of 1 VTC = 0.0068 BTC. So, it looks like it is a wash, unless VTC improves against BTC for 7970s. Other cards seem to be doing better with VTC. I'll try with my 7870s that I'll be getting the rest of today. If they do better, I'll keep them on VTC for a while. But I'm going to switch my 7970s back to MC.

Thanks for the help everyone.

BTW, here is my current vertminer.conf file in case it help anybody else out. Seems to be my best settings

"intensity" : "12,12",
"vectors" : "1,1",
"worksize" : "256,256",
"kernel" : "scrypt,scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2,2",
"thread-concurrency" : "7168,7168",
"shaders" : "0,0",
"gpu-engine" : "0-0,0-0",
"gpu-fan" : "95-99,95-99",
"gpu-memclock" : "0,0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0,0",
"gpu-powertune" : "-20,-20",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000,0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95,95",
"temp-overheat" : "85,85",
"temp-target" : "75,75",
"load-balance" : true,
"failover-only" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "30",
"scrypt-vert" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"

 

[dyckah]

That's weird about the 7970's. Both my 280x, and my buddy's 280x don't throw hw errors with i13, tc8192, w256, g2. Best hashrate I could get were 330kh @1000/1500, and 340kh @1000/1800
Reports @ 600-750 on my pools website, at the current rate of things it looks like I should get 6+ vtc/day...
Had 3 confirmed vtc in the past 12 hours..

 

[torin3]

Maybe it would be worth it to flash my BIOS to to 280x.... I don't know.

 

[xb1az3x]

So my system is showing 180 Kh/s but the pool stats are showing me at anywhere from 30-60 Kh/s, is this normal?

 

[torin3]

So my system is showing 180 Kh/s but the pool stats are showing me at anywhere from 30-60 Kh/s, is this normal?

Do you have any hardware errors? I found that when I was having them, I would get less Kh/s in the pool than the miner was showing me.