AMD GPU about nheqminer HOT 22 CLOSED

I get "Fail OCL" spam error message when attempting to use AMD GPU here

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Try use -t 0 -od 0

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If your using an older card like that you need to use the 15.12 drivers.

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Subject: Re: [nicehash/nheqminer] AMD GPU (#31)

I'm getting 0 Sols/sec with AMD GPU mining for on a R7 260x . I'm running with just the GPU switch and it is detecting the card properly at the beginning. Mining with the cpu switch works fine, and the gpu switch works fine on my nvidia system. Is there a certain version of the amd driver that must be installed for this to work? The switches I'm using are nheqminer.exe -l stratum.zcash.nicehash.com:3357 -u mypublicaddress -t 0 -od 0 Attached is a screenshot of my no sols.

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Me to, it says this just before the spam. Price is so high, really wanted to get my GPUs on it as well.

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I got a capture right before it where it said no OpenCL GPU's detected

I'm using latest WHQL Drivers on Win 7 X64

I also tried deleting the .bin file as described in instructions and it had no effect

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Fixed it! Put a bat file in the same folder as 'nheqminer.exe'. Nicehash haven't set the working directory correctly. Est. over $20 a day! GPUs 10C cooler.

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@aaronsace -- can you elaborate on what the bat file contains? I have been using a bat file to launch mine from the beginning, Perhaps is the directory I'm using?

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@Eyedol-X -- it needs to build a bin file per gpu. Put the files in 'c:\nheqminer' then put 'cd c:\nheqminer' on the first line of the bat. Call 'nheqminer.exe' without the full path.

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@aaronsace My GPU is being detected as "(OCL_XMP) TODO" -- still fails with the batch and call using same directory you indicated -- any suggestions?

Batch File

cd c:\nheqminer
Call nheqminer.exe -l usa -u BTCADDRESS -od 0 1 2 3

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Seems like it's not detecting your cards properly. You tried downloading the drivers from here?http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64

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looks like I got it working with my RX480's -- still working on my R9390 system, drivers were out of date.

Thanks!

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Some more info: have to be careful to pay attention to the platform ID setting. On one of my systems I had to define -op as the default 0 was my iGPU on one of my systems.

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AMD Radeon HD5450:

nheqminer_v0.3a_suprnova>nheqminer_suprnova -u zenbooster.censored -p censored -t 0 -od 0

    ==================== www.nicehash.com ====================
            Equihash CPU&GPU Miner for Suprnova v0.3a
    Thanks to Zcash developers for providing base of the code.
        Special thanks to tromp and xenoncat for providing
             optimized CPU and CUDA equihash solvers.
    ==================== www.nicehash.com ====================

Setting log level to 2
[2016-10-29 08:52:20.788917][0x00001024]: Using SSE2: YES
[2016-10-29 08:52:20.798917][0x00001024]: Using AVX: NO
[2016-10-29 08:52:20.808917][0x00001024]: Using AVX2: NO
[2016-10-29 08:52:20.818917][0x00001a50]: stratum | Starting miner
[2016-10-29 08:52:20.828917][0x00001398]: miner#0 | Starting thread #0 (OCL_XMP) TODO
[2016-10-29 08:52:20.838917][0x00001a50]: stratum | Connecting to stratum server zec-eu.suprnova.cc:2142
[2016-10-29 08:52:21.008917][0x00001a50]: stratum | Connected!
[2016-10-29 08:52:21.068917][0x00001a50]: stratum | Subscribed to stratum server
[2016-10-29 08:52:21.078917][0x00001a50]: miner | Extranonce is c2b5010000000000000000000001b5c3
[2016-10-29 08:52:21.148918][0x00001a50]: stratum | ←[35mTarget set to 00f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0←[0m
[2016-10-29 08:52:21.168918][0x00001a50]: stratum | ←[36mReceived new job #183←[0m
found 1 devices
Using device 0 as GPU 0
compiling ...
source: 41162 bytes
[2016-10-29 08:52:21.408918][0x00001a50]: stratum | Authorized worker zenbooster.censored
[2016-10-29 08:52:31.320932][0x00001024]: ←[33mSpeed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s←[0m
[2016-10-29 08:52:43.516950][0x00001024]: ←[33mSpeed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s←[0m
[2016-10-29 08:52:59.368972][0x00001024]: ←[33mSpeed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s←[0m
[2016-10-29 08:53:13.196992][0x00001024]: ←[33mSpeed [300 sec]: 0 I/s, 0 Sols/s←[0m

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Sorry if this is a dumb question but I have an R9 380 on Windows, single core CPU. I used the command line nheqminer.exe -l usa -u 13cii8BfnKbZkGUQM2Qgz42zzdMo6fYk5d -t 2 -od 0

How can I verify that I am actually using the GPU at all? When it started up things scrolled by fast but I was not sure it said anything about using the GPU. It definitely mentioned the CPU, couldn't tell if it said anything about GPU. Would it just error out if I said od and it couldn't find a GPU?

Thanks.

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@zenbooster thanks, by turning off threads I was able to confirm it is GPU mining, but it seems to be going much faster with the CPU on also, so I put it back to the original command line. But I believe AMD mining is working also (maybe not as much faster as CPU mining as I would have thought though -- I was looking at 5.5 I/s, 10.7 Sols/s on the GPU, now with CPU on also it changed to 12.2 I/s, 23.6 Sols/s (should have bought nVidia lol)).
EDIT: whoops I do have dual core of course LOL, not single core. changed to 4 threads.

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GPU mining has much more potential; I hope they update it soon.

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AMD GPU is not optimized at this time, only CUDA has been with 0.3a

2x 1070's is hashing more than 4x 480's or 4x 390s

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Yeah why no new release yet! It's been 7 days! We need an AMD GPU miner!

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There is; just not optimized yet.

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I'm getting 0 Sols/sec with AMD GPU mining for on a R7 260x . I'm running with just the GPU switch and it is detecting the card properly at the beginning. Mining with the cpu switch works fine, and the gpu switch works fine on my nvidia system. Is there a certain version of the amd driver that must be installed for this to work? The switches I'm using are nheqminer.exe -l stratum.zcash.nicehash.com:3357 -u mypublicaddress -t 0 -od 0 Attached is a screenshot of my no sols.

And another of my card detection.

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Thanks molitar, I found somebody mention the 15.11 drivers for another miner and suspected as much. I appreciate the confirmation though. I wish they'd add something about this in the FAQ or the official nicehash getting started page.

Update#1: I clean un-installed the old amd drivers, rebooted, and installed the 15.12 drivers, rebooted again and I'm still getting 0 Sols/sec on GPU mining. I don't think the drivers are the only problem. Anything else you can think of that might be causing the issue like OS version, or other applications that might be interfering with it?

Update#2: Just for giggles I tried the 15.11 drivers as well with the same 0 Sols/sec results. I think I will start a new thread as my problem is obviously different than the person that started this thread.

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AMD (OpenCL) solver are dropped from nheqminer.
Closing issue...

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