10-18-2011, 02:29 PM
How to Start Mining
OK, I think I've come up with a good method for this. Here's the download for the tools. (Very tiny)
http://in-uo.net/download/mINer.zip
You'll want to unzip the miner folder into the c:\ drive like this: c:\miner
If it's not unzipped there, it won't work unless you edit the .bat files to use the new path.
Inside, there are 8 files and you can ignore the .exe files since they can't be run by themselves. (hide.exe and bitcoin-miner.exe)
There are 6 batch (.bat) files; Three of them have " - hidden" in the file name. These hidden ones will open the process in the background if you don't want their window to show up.
Now, I would *never* imply adding these .bat files to other computers' startup folders to have them mine for you. That would be downright dishonest of me. But I can't stop you of course.
There are three options:
CPU+GPU : Will use 100% of your CPU and GPU and lag the crap out of your computer.
GPU Only : Uses GPU only and skips the CPU completely. Very little system lag unless you try playing a game that uses your graphics card.
CPU Only : Mostly useless since the CPU gives very low returns compared to the GPU and the CPU+GPU one will work for computers without a GPU, but I figured I'd include it.
To start mining, just run the appropriate batch file after making whatever modifications you need. ( :: is the comment syntax)
A really useful modifier is -t which lets you set the number of CPU threads/cores to use. So, if you have two, you could use -t 1 to only use half of the CPU.
By default all the .bat files are set up to mine as an anonymous user that I made: donations{at}in-uo.net_anon
If you run the batch files provided, you will mine anonymously and not show up on the leader boards I'm working on, so If you want your contributions to show up, right-click the .bat file, click "Edit" and replace the _anon with _yourname.
PM me or post here and I'll make a user for you. (There's an 8 character limit on username)
OK, I think I've come up with a good method for this. Here's the download for the tools. (Very tiny)
http://in-uo.net/download/mINer.zip
You'll want to unzip the miner folder into the c:\ drive like this: c:\miner
If it's not unzipped there, it won't work unless you edit the .bat files to use the new path.
Inside, there are 8 files and you can ignore the .exe files since they can't be run by themselves. (hide.exe and bitcoin-miner.exe)
There are 6 batch (.bat) files; Three of them have " - hidden" in the file name. These hidden ones will open the process in the background if you don't want their window to show up.
Now, I would *never* imply adding these .bat files to other computers' startup folders to have them mine for you. That would be downright dishonest of me. But I can't stop you of course.
There are three options:
CPU+GPU : Will use 100% of your CPU and GPU and lag the crap out of your computer.
GPU Only : Uses GPU only and skips the CPU completely. Very little system lag unless you try playing a game that uses your graphics card.
CPU Only : Mostly useless since the CPU gives very low returns compared to the GPU and the CPU+GPU one will work for computers without a GPU, but I figured I'd include it.
To start mining, just run the appropriate batch file after making whatever modifications you need. ( :: is the comment syntax)
A really useful modifier is -t which lets you set the number of CPU threads/cores to use. So, if you have two, you could use -t 1 to only use half of the CPU.
- I usually run the CPU+GPU.bat file with only 1/2 of my processor cores running and I hardly notice a difference in system performance
By default all the .bat files are set up to mine as an anonymous user that I made: donations{at}in-uo.net_anon
If you run the batch files provided, you will mine anonymously and not show up on the leader boards I'm working on, so If you want your contributions to show up, right-click the .bat file, click "Edit" and replace the _anon with _yourname.
PM me or post here and I'll make a user for you. (There's an 8 character limit on username)