Quote from: BobbyJones on March 08, 2018, 07:36:48 PM

hello everyone

some help please . I'm trying to mine with my Nvidia . downloaded the xmr stak nvida
followed this post completely https://sajostwistedtech.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/get-started-dero/
every time i try and launch to start mining , it crashes after a second

any idea what i can try ?
should i try changeing some more info on the config ?

thank you

I'm not going to read the instructions in the link you provided because time.

Xmr-stak is notoriously tricky to optimize. It's not the best choice of miner if you are new to this, and if you have to follow a guide to the letter then I'm going to assume you are, indeed, new to this.

However, you already have it and trying to explain anything else would be too painful so here's the quick-n-dirty way to get xmr-stak working, if not optimized. Also note that I am assuming - from context - that you only want to use an Nvidia GPU, and not both the GPU and CPU (optimizing the cpu.txt file is even more difficult, so let's not for now).

1. Delete nvidia.txt.
2. Run cmd.exe as Administrator - note that you must always run xmr-stak as Administrator - and change to the directory where you have xmr-stak. If you put the folder on the desktop then the command you'll enter will look something like: cd c:\users\\desktop\; where is the name you use to log-in to your computer and the other should be self-explanatory.
3. Have your dero address and the url:port of the pool you want to connect to handy; you could just open the existing config.txt file and pull it from there, since both those values should be stored there already.
4. Run this command next: xmr-stak --noCPU --noAMD
5. You will be asked a bunch of questions which I don't remember all of because I haven't had to do this in awhile, but essentially you want to choose 'monero' as the currency, enter your DERO address and url:port, don't use Nicehash, don't use SSL.
6. That should do it for now, but to make this process easier you'll want to create a batch file that has content similar to the following:

Code:

@echo off
cd\users\jsj\desktop\mining\xmr-stak
xmr-stak -c config-dero1.txt --noCPU --noAMD
pause

Note that I have different config files for each pool/currency, and select which one using the -c switch followed by the config file name.