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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: GMiner v2.11 Equihash/CuckooCycle/Ethash/ProgPoW/KAWPOW
by
DanGB
on 27/06/2020, 20:20:20 UTC

+ support BeamHashIII algorithm for Nvidia GPUs (for auto-switching use algo --beamhash)



I just tested the newest gminer update.  I pointed it to a test pool that is already past block 777777 (so on BeamHashIII) and got 18-19 Sol/s with my 1070ti's (using the same Afterburner settings as with BeamHashII).  Now the interesting thing is that I then pointed it to my node (so still BeamHashII) to solo mine and I was getting 18-19 Sol/s on there too.  I then ran against my node the previous gminer version that I had been running and it got 40+ Sol/s as I expected (again, no changes in Afterburner settings).  Any idea why I am seeing very low hashrate while mining BeamHashII with this latest version?


We figured out what the issue is.  If you test BeamHashIII on a test pool and it is past block 777777, gminer creates a 0k file in the miner folder.  With this file there, gminer will continue to run on BeamHashIII even if you go back to a regular mainnet pool that has not yet hit block 777777.  To get your hashrate back and to have it actually mine on BeamHashII again, you must delete that 0k file.