Please take our apologies about the lack of forum activity in the last month. We have our plates full when the new version enters "pre-release limbo" and is time to squeeze out the bugs, so our policy is generally to "block out" the outside world for a few weeks and concentrate on our main job - making PhoenixMiner better.
With that being said - the first beta of the 4.2 is ready. You can download
PhoenixMiner 4.2a from here:
https://mega.nz/#F!HAU3WKoR!Z7yCqiDhDg47HYAO1VGB-A (MEGA)
If you want to check the integrity of the downloaded file, please use the following hashes:
File: PhoenixMiner_4.2a_Windows.zip
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SHA-1: 79196d8316093630c8e929bac494ab432811b7eb
SHA-256: 27be501456b40b06a96bbe1f765d693da6cc5c19849fd5f808aabfdd363263ed
SHA-512: 452b5fec50a83f4f8f8c888223f16a340087b8befefd0e7fff643627ea7e23a7c24de2ad0fbec0aff9fc58b98c4b60e25d506d5d23f33e3aaba19f8f4e4c32e4
File: PhoenixMiner_4.2a_Linux.tar.gz
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SHA-1: 417f6457315c01ecadffc803ae604293f8616169
SHA-256: a82c5c13be0a1cb516daa09fc57b97a43630b9fb789bdc9e6b2e3a9b33a49c97
SHA-512: 6fb1337d5b97c5720754aa795b883d1bd7b455d96b33d9df5fe380ca53d432b8f51eecd3c840632f2ee05cc54c03979005e628ddf8eeab5a1733aff7923648d7
Here are the changes for this release:
- Added support for dual mining Ethash and Blake2s on Nvidia GPUs
- Added experimental support for ProgPOW mining of Bitcoin Interest (BCI). Note that the kernels are not optimized and only work on AMD. You must add -coin bci to the command line (or COIN: bci to your epools.txt file) in order to mine BCI.
- Added support for EthereumStratum/2.0.0 protocol (use -proto 5 if the pool requires it).
- AMD hardware control code was rewritten, now should be more stable and work on older cards too
- Added command-line option -fcm to set the way fans are controlled (AMD/Windows only). The possible values are 0 (auto; the default behavior), 1 (use VBIOS/driver), 2 (force custom control of the fans regardless of VBIOS/drivers fan curves, etc). Use -fcm 2 if the fans are not controlled properly or at all
- Added support for Radeon VII
- Added support for AMD drivers up to 19.3.1
- Added new command-line option -nvkernel to select the old (v1) or new (v2) CUDA kernels. The possible values are 0 (auto; the default), 1 (use the old v1 CUDA kernels from PhoenixMiner 3.5), 2 (use the new v2 kernels, which were introduced with PhoenixMiner 4.0). This was added because there were some complains that the new kernels are running slower on some Nvidia cards. Note that v1 CUDA kernels doesn't support dual mining.
- Increased the maximum supported DAG epoch to 329. This should be fine for at least a year or so.
- Added support for direct mining without DAG switching of Yocoin (YOC), Bitcoiin2Gen (B2G), Ethersocial (ESN), Atheios (ATH), and REOSC. See the -coin parameter in Readme.txt for more information.
- Other small improvements and fixes.
Here is an example command-line for mining BCI (ProgPOW) - be sure to change
YourBciWalletAddress with your actual BCI wallet address:
PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu-1.pool.bci-server.com:3869 -wal YourBciWalletAddress.Rig1 -coin bci -proto 1