Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective
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Phew - guess I’m all alone on this one (Windows + Nvidia) (Currently using two Nvidia Quadro FX 580 on Windows 7 64 bit)
So… this is how far I got.
Step 1 - download wallet
Paper Wallet (I prefer this option always - better to have it be forgotten than stolen)
https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/7794/ftc-paper-wallet
Desktop Wallet (follow link, scroll down, download the wallet you need)
(https://www.feathercoin.com/#dls)
Step 2 - Install Wallet (for desktop wallet)
Install the wallet and let it sit for a while, it needs to update to the latest block. If you never used a wallet before, you have to wait until it updates all 4 years FTC has been out for. Which… is taking some time.
Step 3 - Install Miner
This is where it gets tricky if you are a complete nub scrub such as I
At first I was thinking CGMiner was the way to go - but that only supports AMD and not so much Nvidia
The correct miner to grab is the following even tho last update has been 2yr+
Step 4 - Sign up for a Mining Pool
You will need to sign up to a mining pool as you cannot mine alone (if you are mining alone you are more advanced than what this thread is for)
Give-Me-Coins.com has a Feathercoin/Neoscrypt pool for people to join. Just create/register an account and create a new worker.
Don’t forget to grab the pool URL which is very important for the next step
Step 5 - Create BAT file
Go to the miner folder that you downloaded - in there, create a .txt file for now, this is where you put in credentials + GPU settings (how your machine will run) and then when it’s set - change it to All Settings with a .BAT extension
The example settings I’m using are the following for OVERCLOCKING GRAPHICS CARD
nsgminer
–neoscrypt
-g 1
-w 128
-I 8
–gpu-engine 1000
–gpu-memclock 1500
-o stratum+tcp://examplescrypt.examplepool.com:exampleport
-O exampleusername.exampleworker:examplepassword
These settings are for VANILLA PERFORMANCE
nsgminer
–neoscrypt
-g 1
-w 128
-I 8
-o stratum+tcp://examplescrypt.examplepool.com:exampleport
-O exampleusername.exampleworker:examplepasswordAccording to a previous thread
"–thread-concurrency (neoscrypt),
–shaders (g 1),
–vectors are not used for NeoScrypt (w 128).
–intensity or -I is the primary performance optimiser. May be set between 8 and 20 according to your video card’s memory size. For example, -I 16 means (2 ^ 16) GPU threads each of 32768 bytes = 2,147,483,648 bytes or 2Gb.
There are some configuration tweaks available in neoscrypt.cl which might deliver a little bit of additional performance."Last part is a flat out lie and takes you to a 500 website that no one took care of.
Step 6 - Install MSI Afterburner
This is to overclock and or monitor your desktop/server - if you got to this step you are further than I am and are already mining as that is the only reason you would want MSI Afterburner. Works for both AMD and Nvidia graphics cards however it does not work for BOTH - also you might run into issues if you don’t have your graphics cards up to date drivers wise.
This is as far as I got so far. Still haven’t gotten to mining but then again I’m setting this up at work and would rather not mine while working.
Please do add to this thread - current documentation is not dummy-proof.
Thanks,
Pump that D
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Wow - thanks Aksimet or whatever your name is for marking this thread as spam!
I really - really - really appreciate it.
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Sorry about the spam protection inconvenience, probably due to external links, your comment was noted.
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No worries - I can understand how it looks like spam, edited it like 5 times in a matter of 2 minutes.
Quick question, the settings that I am using in the BAT file for the miner are the following
nsgminer.exe
–neoscrypt
-g 1
-w 128
-I 8
–gpu-engine 1000
–gpu-memclock 1500
-o stratum+tcp://examplescrypt.examplepool.com:exampleport
-O exampleusername.exampleworker:examplepasswordHow do I tell if it’s not working??
Right now it’s opening the command line and it runs a few lines and then goes blank. Not sure if I should be giving it more time or if it’s crapping out because I’m pushing the settings too much??
If it’s not working would it crash the computer, i.e. blue screen of death?
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@pumperbumper said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
No worries - I can understand how it looks like spam, edited it like 5 times in a matter of 2 minutes.
Quick question, the settings that I am using in the BAT file for the miner are the following
nsgminer.exe
–neoscrypt
-g 1
-w 128
-I 8
–gpu-engine 1000
–gpu-memclock 1500
-o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336
-O pumperdumper.ftcworker:awdxqezc132How do I tell if it’s not working??
Right now it’s opening the command line and it runs a few lines and then goes blank. Not sure if I should be giving it more time or if it’s crapping out because I’m pushing the settings too much??
If it’s not working would it crash the computer, i.e. blue screen of death?
Hey, welcome to FTC :)
So far all looks good… only thing i look at is the gpu engine and mem clock… i found when i did this it created drama and stopped things from working!!!
Also at this early stage i would recommend the change to ccminer… i have found it to give a better kh/s than NSG… don’t know why!!! (anyone help with that?)
For reference… i used to mine with a gtx780 using NSG. the following is my launch.bat file text
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
nsgminer.exe --neoscrypt -w 128 -g 1 -I 18 -o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -O Gooders.1:x
pauseCould change the -W - I setting to something a little lower (see url below) and see if it runs, if it does then its your config file :)
For the right -W and -I setting for your card, have a look on here for your gpu and then add it into your file.
http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8659/nsgminer-config-collection
I’m heading home for the evening but if you want that lot breaking down let me know… the first 5 lines of my bat file i have no idea what that was for, i was advised to add it.
Happy mining :)
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@gooders said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
@pumperbumper said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
No worries - I can understand how it looks like spam, edited it like 5 times in a matter of 2 minutes.
Quick question, the settings that I am using in the BAT file for the miner are the following
nsgminer.exe
–neoscrypt
-g 1
-w 128
-I 8
–gpu-engine 1000
–gpu-memclock 1500
-o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336
-O pumperdumper.ftcworker:awdxqezc132How do I tell if it’s not working??
Right now it’s opening the command line and it runs a few lines and then goes blank. Not sure if I should be giving it more time or if it’s crapping out because I’m pushing the settings too much??
If it’s not working would it crash the computer, i.e. blue screen of death?
Hey, welcome to FTC :)
So far all looks good… only thing i look at is the gpu engine and mem clock… i found when i did this it created drama and stopped things from working!!!
Also at this early stage i would recommend the change to ccminer… i have found it to give a better kh/s than NSG… don’t know why!!! (anyone help with that?)
For reference… i used to mine with a gtx780 using NSG. the following is my launch.bat file text
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
nsgminer.exe --neoscrypt -w 128 -g 1 -I 18 -o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -O Gooders.1:x
pauseCould change the -W - I setting to something a little lower (see url below) and see if it runs, if it does then its your config file :)
For the right -W and -I setting for your card, have a look on here for your gpu and then add it into your file.
http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8659/nsgminer-config-collection
I’m heading home for the evening but if you want that lot breaking down let me know… the first 5 lines of my bat file i have no idea what that was for, i was advised to add it.
Happy mining :)
Thank you so much for posting!!!
I’m headed home as well - but I will definitely take a look when I get home and put your suggestions to use, really appreciate your foresight and tips.
Cheers!!
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@pumperbumper said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
@gooders said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
@pumperbumper said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
No worries - I can understand how it looks like spam, edited it like 5 times in a matter of 2 minutes.
Quick question, the settings that I am using in the BAT file for the miner are the following
nsgminer.exe
–neoscrypt
-g 1
-w 128
-I 8
–gpu-engine 1000
–gpu-memclock 1500
-o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336
-O pumperdumper.ftcworker:awdxqezc132How do I tell if it’s not working??
Right now it’s opening the command line and it runs a few lines and then goes blank. Not sure if I should be giving it more time or if it’s crapping out because I’m pushing the settings too much??
If it’s not working would it crash the computer, i.e. blue screen of death?
Hey, welcome to FTC :)
So far all looks good… only thing i look at is the gpu engine and mem clock… i found when i did this it created drama and stopped things from working!!!
Also at this early stage i would recommend the change to ccminer… i have found it to give a better kh/s than NSG… don’t know why!!! (anyone help with that?)
For reference… i used to mine with a gtx780 using NSG. the following is my launch.bat file text
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
nsgminer.exe --neoscrypt -w 128 -g 1 -I 18 -o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336 -O Gooders.1:x
pauseCould change the -W - I setting to something a little lower (see url below) and see if it runs, if it does then its your config file :)
For the right -W and -I setting for your card, have a look on here for your gpu and then add it into your file.
http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8659/nsgminer-config-collection
I’m heading home for the evening but if you want that lot breaking down let me know… the first 5 lines of my bat file i have no idea what that was for, i was advised to add it.
Happy mining :)
Thank you so much for posting!!!
I’m headed home as well - but I will definitely take a look when I get home and put your suggestions to use, really appreciate your foresight and tips.
Cheers!!
No worries :)
I’m a noob too, but i spent 4 days sorting/syncing the wallet (i would start there because of Give me coins-will need wallet address for settings) and at least a day sorting the miner out so all i can do is post what i found and how i did it! If it saves you the days of drama i had its got to be a win! I’m sure if i am wrong or there is a better way someone will jump and say something!
EDIT: everyone is friendly here… forums are fairly active and there is some REALLY knowledgeable members in here… if you get stuck with the GMC pool, ask here or the pool slack chat system is really good… guy “khaos” in there is awesome… any drama and its sorted quickly with no fuss… he’s answered my stupid/noob questions and helped me!
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Morning!
I’m looking for CC Miner - but the only thing I could find was this GitHub
https://github.com/ghostlander/ccminer-neoscrypt
I download it - unzip it - but then the install file is asking for a default program to open with?
Unsure whether this is the right GitHub to download - from everything I’ve read, it is specifically for Neo algo and doesn’t support any other algo’s.
I’m gonna look around and see if I can find a different download section.
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https://github.com/ghostlander/ccminer-neoscrypt/releases
download the zipfile ccminer-neoscrypt-win-1.5.80.zip
extract itrun one of the versions of CCminer depending on your config and cards…there should be 4 EXE.s in there.
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Thank you for that - I downloaded it, but stuck at this point.
I took a screenshot of what I’m seeing
Left side is NSGMiner - I can see the .exe files there - however i can’t see the same on the right. All the files on the right require a default program to open with.
Just a heads up - will update the top posts on this thread tonight - gotta switch priorities for a few hours.
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@acidd said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
https://github.com/ghostlander/ccminer-neoscrypt/releases
download the zipfile ccminer-neoscrypt-win-1.5.80.zip
extract itrun one of the versions of CCminer depending on your config and cards…there should be 4 EXE.s in there.
Making me question what version i have now! i’m not using that one!
my .exe file is ccminer-x64-75
^if that means anything?
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@pumperbumper said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
Thank you for that - I downloaded it, but stuck at this point.
I took a screenshot of what I’m seeing
Left side is NSGMiner - I can see the .exe files there - however i can’t see the same on the right. All the files on the right require a default program to open with.
Just a heads up - will update the top posts on this thread tonight - gotta switch priorities for a few hours.
hmmm maybe i need to test the neoscrypt version…urhm
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@pumperbumper said in Need Help! - Mining FTC - Newbie Perspective:
These settings are for VANILLA PERFORMANCE
nsgminer
–neoscrypt
-g 1
-w 128
-I 8
-o stratum+tcp://examplescrypt.examplepool.com:exampleport
-O exampleusername.exampleworker:examplepasswordHello all. Mining newbie here, apologizes for the dull questions.
If I’m mining VIA the give-me-coins pool, then I’d have to replace:
-o stratum+tcp://examplescrypt.examplepool.com:exampleport
with:
-o stratum+tcp://ftc-neo.give-me-coins.com:3336
Right?I would have to put my give-me-coins username in the place of exampleusername?
Thank you all in advance. :)
