hello everyone, my cgminer shows a hashrate and accepted shares, but it doesnt show any gpu settings or options. I am running windows 7 32 bit, and the appropriate cgminer software with support for DCR, and my card is an MSI r9 280x gaming 3g twin frozr edition. my driver is the 13.11 amd driver. here is a screenshot of the problem. you can see where it says "GPU 0:" those fields are blank, but they shouldnt be. I also cannot access the gpu settings under [G]PU management. Do i need to do something further to get cgminer to configure my card better? thanks for any help you can provide!
When you click in the systray on the arrow up and then on the Radeon settings icon, will the software open or will it not and just issue an error like "no suitable driver..."? If it won't open then you have probably an iGPU which is activated. Disable it in BIOS and everything will work fine.
I think you need to install the AMD Display Library SDK which gives you more access to video card. (Thread Concurrency, fan speed etc.) Did you build cgminer yourself?
If he's running Windows and the latest driver it should all be kosher. Can you paste the contents of cgminer.conf (minus any passwords of course) and the command line you're using to start it up?
But i was running a previous version of cgminer that would let me access the fan speeds and all that stuff within the miner itself. yeah, im running windows 7 sp1 32 bit. I had no problems with cgminer and sgminer previously on this card. I don't have a conf file, but here is my .bat: cgminer.exe --blake256 -o http://dcr.pool.mn:4722 -u ** -p ** -I 12 --no-submit-stale --scan-time 2 --queue 0 **-username and password hidden.
The build you're using probably doesn't have ADL support enabled. Unfortunately, the 32 and 64 bit builds of cgminer were built by different people using different methods. There will be an RFP for improving the mining software/binaries/stack so improvements should be coming soon.
The RFP has been posted and some proposals have come in. Depends which is chosen, the timeline for it, etc. https://forum.decred.org/threads/rfp-5-mining-protocol-development-and-pool-integration.1054/