I am aware of the difficulty issue. The only miner NiceHash uses where my limited capacity is easily able to track difficulty is CUDA, and at a difficulty of 512 with CUDA I am making less on my test machine with the latest version than I was from version 1.7.5.12, and as I said, from other research I've conducted, this is based on a virtual memory allocation issue I'm not smart enough to understand. But that doesn't even matter anymore because my funders won't sign off on a miner that comes with a legal notice like the one the latest version does. So yes, for once and for all, the version does matter. In this particular case.

It would be so nice if people read what I was writing, or if they weren't willing to bother to do so, then at least wouldn't bother replying.