Best miner software for AMD GPU (crimson 17.7.1)

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mozempk
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Best miner software for AMD GPU (crimson 17.7.1)

Post by mozempk » Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:17 pm

Hi guys!
Im really new to mining,amateur level, moreover on prohashing.
But i really liked the site and the idea behind it (well played devs! :D ) one thing that i didnt find was a section advicing a miner software that would work here. But nevertheless i started mining (Scrypt) yesterday with the software i had got on my rig:
CPU: AMD FX8320
GPU: AMD Radeon RX480 Nitro 8GB
nsgminer (win-64) version 0.9.2
with these settings:

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setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
nsgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333 -u mozempk -p "a=scrypt" -g 2 -I 20 --shaders 2304 --thread-concurrency 9216 -w 256
everything was going fine until my pc crashed.
It rebooted and amd asked me to update the drivers to version (crimson) 17.7.1 wich i did, also hoping in an increse in hashrate... Silly me! :(
After that ANY miner wouldnt work anymore.

nsgminer's DW index skyrocketed and the instantaneous hashrate was always stuck at 0, while the average was at around 500-ish (i suppose KH/s, but that wasnt indicated) and obviously no accepted shares.
I also tried
sgminer (i believe all versions),wich newer versions do not seem (at least to my n00b eyes) to support Scrypt or X11, the latest i tried was: 5-6-0-general;
also tried
cgminer-3.7.7b-Neoscrypt
all of those with a combination of the settings described above but to no avail.
For the latest (sgminer and cgminer) the problem was different, i didnt get any DWs but only HW errors and the hashrate was way off,like 5+ MH/s while gpu load was at around 30%.
I dont think that i have messed up my card, temperatures were always under control (peeks of 75°C) and the power consumption stayed always under the 100-ish Watts.

So, after all this descriptive part here is my question:
Can you advice me a good miner software to mine here?
- Possibly a compiled version (im not scared of compiling my own software, i have access to a linux machine too in case that'd be necessary)
- Windows 64 Bit
- optimized for Scrypt and X11
- most importantly optimized for AMD GPUS
Or another solution to mine from this pool?
Thank you very much in advance!
Moze
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FRISKIE
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Re: Best miner software for AMD GPU (crimson 17.7.1)

Post by FRISKIE » Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:51 pm

Any reason you don't want to simply roll your GPU driver back to the previous version that worked?
mozempk
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Re: Best miner software for AMD GPU (crimson 17.7.1)

Post by mozempk » Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:47 am

Of course i could! But i'd rather try with a more up-to-date miner software as nsgminer (0.9.2) still crashed my pc after only 5 hours of mining!
You got any advice on this?

EDIT:
For what i have seen the most used miner software around is sgminer, the only one with consistent updates, but it seems it doesnt support scrypt anymore...
These are the kernels included in a more recent release: http://imgur.com/a/HdQ1u what should i choose for scrypt?
i tried psw and ckolivas, they didnt work.
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