Quote from: jmayniac on May 21, 2018, 06:52:14 PM

Quote from: HashAuger on May 21, 2018, 06:31:19 PM

I've only seen the issue of the software getting detached from a mining process once and that was when Windows Update took control of my desktop to notify of the latest Creator's Update. If it is happening multiple times, please let me know which mining software and algorithms are being used so I can look into it further.

I had it happen on both my 1070 cards with Neoscrypt-hsr very often, so I disabled that algorithm. I just had it happen on both on my 1060s and 1070s with ccminer-phi mining Lyra2v2.

As for the configuration, I have a standard 6 card righ with 2x 1060s, 2x 1070s and 2x 1080s. It's just difficult to get a handle on what to enable and what not to as there is a A LOT of conflicting information out there. It doesn't help that my cards don't like to be overclocked at all, so I am mostly stock settings. Maybe some tips on on using the program would be good. Such as the information you gave me before. Right now, I'm not seeing any difference at all in what pools I select, they all are about the same. To get any meaningful data though, I would have to run this for a week, but I am a small miner and the prices and difficulties change daily, so that isn't really an option. What works this week will change completely by next week. I understand what the program is doing, but it's just difficult for a small miner like myself to find the right combination of pools and algos as it is all a moving target. Some better reporting would help though.

Thanks for the info. Just to clarify the issue with the miner processes: the software still shows a miner panel as being active for a card even though the underlying process has exited. Are there any crashes reported for those cards in the error logs/Output panel or does this occur when the software is switching algorithms? Does the software start another process for the affected cards (so multiple panels are visible for the same card) or is it just that one panel for each card?

Have you tried using a different miner for Neoscrypt. You could manually change the preferred miner to the second fastest miner instead of disabling the algorithm all together. Similarly, you may want to change the preferred miner for lyra2v2 to Nanashi or something newer due to the age of ccminer-phi. Enough people have had problems with the older variants of ccminer that I am leaning towards disabling them by default
in a future release.

I understand your frustration abut the configuration issues. As a developer it can be a challenge to accomodate different types of users - especially in an area such as this that is so dependent on third-party tools and services. You might want try using just one pool to start out with to determine which algorithms work best on your cards and then maybe enable another pool or two after a couple of days. This will allow you to build bigger shares in new coins even though you will still be switching algorithms based on estimated earnings. Based on feedback from this thread and elsewhere, a lot of new users prefer Blaze, but I still think smaller pools can offer comparable returns for people who dont mind slower payouts. However, it can take a while to evaluate their performance due to the slower rate at which they mine new coins.