GPU plotter doesnt start.
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Remove jminer folder from the desktop, go here https://github.com/dawallet/burstwindowswallet/releases/ and install the Wallet Burstcoin_Wallet_AIO_Setup_0.3.9.exe
This will come with 3 applications that u gonna use to mine, one of them is jminer.
After the installation the location of the Burst Wallet will be in users>%appData%>roaming>Burst Wallet
Before u use jminer launch the Burst Wallet application first and on the taskbar of the wallet u will see something like "start mining". Click on it and select ur pool and add the reward assignment with ur passphrase into it and then Start mining using CPU or GPU (openCL).
When it will start u can close the cmd windows (this just for the wallet to setup the jminer.property in the jminer folder).
U don't have to use the wallet if u want to mine and then u can go to the jminer folder located in appData and u can just make a shortcut of the batch file and run.
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Alright. We are getting somehwere. Seems like it is mining now.
Now the only Problem is, that the Burst Client only seems to find the Plots that it wrote by the included plotter.
It doesnt show me the Plots on my other two 8tb HDDs
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@PummelHummel START BLOCK means its mining the current block. So welcome into mining. Now just leave ur computer mining, and thats it.
To make jminer see the plots put the plots in a folder u call Burst
So the location would be for example E:/Burst/plots
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Thanks! Got the miner to mine the 8tb HDDs.
But when mining the big Plots the PC gets very unresponsive and switches to a black screen from tim to time.
The mininn process seems to be reading really slow and finally aborts by giving me the message "Not enaugh System resources to run the service" (or something like that in German)
I am on an i3, 8gb of Ram and a R9 270 GPU
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No one can help u unless u provide a bigger screen. I asked about this 3 times now. We don't see anything buddy. Make it bigger.
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Is seems like the Forum is compressing the Images...
Lets try this:
http://fs5.directupload.net/images/170301/joltcuxa.jpg
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Don't forget to set the device ID (gpu ID) in the jminer property file. gpuPlotter can tell u the platform ID and ur device ID that u should use in mining if u are gpu mining. Maybe because ur rig is trying to mine on an integrated gpu hence u need to chose the r9 instead.
When u start jminer u will get the info as well about what device it uses.
What kind of drives do u have? Can u post here ur rig specification?
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The miner gives me this information:
http://fs5.directupload.net/images/170301/kb6itq5x.png
So in the properties I left it on
platformId=0
deviceId=0I have 2 HGST 8TB. But for now I am only trying to bring one of them to work.
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@PummelHummel said in GPU plotter doesnt start.:
HGST 8TB
I am not pro with drives but a Helium drive should not read at a speed of 6 MB/s. Maybe someone more competent will come to assist u, I have no clue what is going on with ur reading speed.
Can u show us ur plot file? Just paste here the exact name of the file.
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3863229165860700817_0_29491200_8192
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@PummelHummel This plot i not optimized and it will do no good with ur drive. Better use xplotter to plot this drive, as u have 8TB make it in small chunks like per 2 TB. The reason is because if the plots will be corrupted it will be a pain in the a$$ for u to plot an 8TB drive again so to avoid this u can easily delete the plot that is corrupted and U will need only to plot 2TB file then.
We gonna create optimized plots for ur drive. Open xplotter folder in appData - roaming - Burst Wallet.
U gonna see a file called RunThisAsAdmin. Edit this and u should see some command with some numbers, u gonna see something like this:
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 3863229165860700817 -sn 0 -n 1843200 -t 8 -path D:\plots -mem 8Gid = Ur burst wallet ID which is 3863229165860700817
sn = Start Nounce (since we gonna start fresh u put 0 here)
n = Nounces u want to plot for ur drive (We gonna create 4 plots each 2TB. 1GB = 4096 nounces. 2TB = 4096 x 200GB = 819200)
t = Number of processor threads or core u have. If u have 8 core u put 8, if u have 4 u put 4 etc.
path = path of the plot u want to put (in this case put ur drive path E or D or F)
mem = Ur RAM memory available that u want it to use. If u have 16 GB RAM just use 8 its enough.8TB is equal to 3 276 800 nounces (that's the max ur drive can fit, so we gonna split this in 4 parts, each plot gonna have 819.200 nounces)
First plot - Run xplotter under these settings:
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 3863229165860700817 -sn 0 -n 819200 -t 8 -path D:\Burst\plots -mem 8GFor the second plot - Run xplotter under these settings:
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 3863229165860700817 -sn 819201 -n 1638401 -t 8 -path D:\Burst\plots -mem 8GTo avoid plot overlap our start nounce for the second plot will be 819201 because we continue the plot and plots CANNOT have the same nounce ID (+1) so just add this with 819200 to get the end nounce (n) which is 1638401
Third plot - Run xplotter under these settings:
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 3863229165860700817 -sn 1638402 -n 2457602 -t 8 -path D:\Burst\plots -mem 8GWe start with 1638402 and we end with (1638402 + 819200 = 2457602)
Last plot - Under these setting:
XPlotter_avx.exe -id 3863229165860700817 -sn 2457603 -n 3276800 -t 8 -path D:\Burst\plots -mem 8GWe ended the nounce with 3276800 because that's the number of nounces ur drive can fit in.
U run xplotter ONE BY ONE until plots are done. And then start mining again to see the difference of reading the plots and mining. Have fun
PS: DONT FORGET TO RUN XPLOTTER AS ADMIN
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Thanks for your effort. I really appreciate it!
But Plotting 2TB with my CPU takes ~24h. Also its 4 times slower than with my GPU. This cannot be the way to go right?
I mean if this is the only way to get working plots why is there a GPU Plotter?
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@PummelHummel Ofc it takes time ;) Everything here takes time :)
U can try to use gpuPlotter in Direct mode but I don't guaranty u that u gonna get an optimized plot. I don't like gpuPlotter for some reason and I like more CPU plotter even if it takes time that's the price u pay to get an ready optimized plot to be mined. Using gpuPlotter in buffer mode does not optimize ur plots hence still u have to use another application to optimize plots, for me that is a waste of time to do a job twice instead of 1 time already.
One way or another u need to have ur plots optimized if u want to mine properly with benefits. Or u use gpu plotting and u use another program to optimize those plots (u gonna do 2 jobs so u already losing time) , Or u use Xplotter and u create optimized plot already in one time. Ur choice to make :3
And gpuPlotter requires u to know what u are doing because u need to figure out what will be the best settings for ur GPU in the devices txt file.
If ur GPU is connected to a screen, u can already forget about GPU plotting :), because that gpu loses his potential in plotting while he is busy powering ur screen. So in result u gonna get flashing screen to black while using gpu plotting.
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Alright, right now I am plotting a 1 TB in direct mode with my GPU it is plotting on 20000 nonces which is 4 times faster than with my CPU.
In a few hours we will see if the GPU miner will be working any better.
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@PummelHummel After plotting can u paste here the name of the file generated by the gpuPlotter. I would like to see if it's optimized or not. Why didn't u plot 2TB? :) U want to split in into 8?
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I just wantet to plot something that I can try out before going to bed. And then letting it run over night.
Also out of 8tb there is only 7,25 TB of actual volume so I have not decided which size I will be going for. I always thought the bigger the better.
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@PummelHummel bigger out? plot? Nope, big does not mean good xd. Like i said if ur plot will be corrupted some day u gonna have to replot again, so big takes time but small chunks quick to replace.
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@pr0cesor thank you very much for your input. I made a lot of progress since yesterday. It seems like it is reading way faster now where it is optimized.
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@PummelHummel Ofc it is. That's why we call it optimized plots =D

