RE: My first attempt at GPU mining (ETH)

[zeronumbers]

For nvidia there is optimized miner https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer

However it doesn't restart when error happens
But there is a program that would restart in case of error https://github.com/orkblutt/MinerLamp

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[ryn]

Thanks for the info, I'll check that out!

[ryn]

I can't figure out how to get ethminer set up or running, what file in the archive is for config and which do you run?

It says something about "This project uses CMake and Hunter package manager." on the website and I have never used anything like that =\

[zeronumbers]

Download ethminer-0.11.0-Windows.zip from https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases

then create bat file inside folder with ethminer.exe with settings, here is example

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
ethminer.exe --farm-recheck 200 -G -S eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -FS us1.ethermine.org:4444 -O (Your_Ethereum_Address).(RigName)

farm recheck can be changed to 2000, -g is for open cl, -u for cuda mining
your pool instead of

-S eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -FS us1.ethermine.org:4444

Here is a guide if you need http://zeronumbers.com/node/32

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Note that this miner will crash at some point and mining will stop so you need a way to restart it either bat file or a program that will watch miner and restart it in case of error.
Here is what I use: https://github.com/orkblutt/MinerLamp
Here is alternative: https://github.com/derubm/Ethminer_Watchdog

[ryn]

Thank You!

I got it working.