@captinkid

I will give those settings a try!

Thank you Captin!

Oh!
SNAP!

Game over...

I just pointed the old beatup XFX R7800 at a 500GB M.2 NVME drive and its writing at about 600MB/s with an occasional dip to the 200's.

I think we have a whole new plan here. I am going to round robin this little monster to a few M.2 drives and see what happens. I will copy from one M.2 drive while it writes a second M.2 drive.

Time for some batch file magic.....

Thank you Haitch!

I went to the parts cabinet, pulled out an old beat up XFX R7800, placed it into the machine.

Then I wrote a spreadsheet that made a batch file of 100Gb slices....

md K:\Burst\Plot
md K:\drive_3
C:\gpuplotgenerator\gpuplotgenerator.exe generate direct K:\Burst\Plot\6262946287884840000_60620800_409600_8192
C:\gpuplotgenerator\gpuplotgenerator.exe generate direct K:\Burst\Plot\6262946287884840000_61030400_409600_8192
C:\gpuplotgenerator\gpuplotgenerator.exe generate direct K:\Burst\Plot\6262946287884840000_61440000_409600_8192
C:\gpuplotgenerator\gpuplotgenerator.exe generate direct K:\Burst\Plot\6262946287884840000_61849600_409600_8192
C:\gpuplotgenerator\gpuplotgenerator.exe generate direct K:\Burst\Plot\6262946287884840000_62259200_409600_8192

and set it to run.

Card settings are: 0 0 1024 128 2048

I am running gpuplotgenerator V4.0.3

It's knocking out 12,000k+ nonces and sustaining >100MB/s...

It's a happy card. I will beat my head against the wall with the 1080 a little later tonight :)

Hello DarkBane & Hatch,

Don't worry, you won't insult me :) I appreciate your time and effort!

I agree, something's not going well! I am...

1. Using gpuplotgenerator
2. Running in an admin window on a Ryzen 1700x w/64GB on a Zotac 1080 8GB Card (Have spare card, same model, swapped cards no change)
3. Run a batch file to build 100GB plots
4. Run in direct mode
5. Write out to a regular NON-SMR drive (8GB drive, same result w/ 6x8GB hardware array)
6. I did change the ID number
7. Will try your settings Darkbane and see how we do. I have tried everything else :)

BTW the 1080s are still returnable and I have a pair of 580's coming in so we can experiment on this.

Questions & comments welcome.. This has been a heck of a ride fighting with this 1080 card the last 5 days.

Has anyone on the forum been able to find the "magic settings" to get a Nvidia 1080 to Plot at sustained high speed under windows 10?

All of my efforts have come to failure (starting a 46,000+ nonces... then dwindling down to 2800 nonces). I think I am going to bag it and get an RX 580 and call it a day. Everyone who seems to be happy on this forum with a high speed plotting setup seems to be running an AMD GPU.

Do I have it right? Questions/comments welcome. Maybe I can save someone else the same trouble! :)