gpu mining option not really working?

[DrekerboyStudio]

Hi ive been testing this builder for some time and its amazing!!! but now ive been testing the gpu miner option but it doesnt seem to work? it startsup and i injected it in notepad so I watch the taskmanager to monitor it. after some time you will see the gpu percentage go up to around 35% and then immediatly it stops and doesnt use the gpu at all after that. ive tried this with NVIDIA card and with AMD card and on the AMD is the only one that does this because NVIDIA doesnt even do that it just never uses the gpu at all. stealth is turned off, cpu mining is off, installation is off, ive tried multiple drivers for it older versions and newer versions, on the newest version it gives error that the driver got a timeout. on the older versions it doesnt give you the error but it will only use the gpu for that one second. am I doing something wrong? any tips maybe?

[UnamSanctam]

What algorithm/coin are you trying to mine? Also, for most algorithms it should only show between 0-5% GPU usage since it doesn't use any CUDA cores to do any work. What you should check to make sure that it's working is the VRAM and memory clock. If you use something like Process Hacker and double-click the mining process and then check the GPU tab and if it's using a few GB of VRAM (GPU Memory) then it's working. I also have an Ethash GPU miner as well depending on what you're planning to mine: https://github.com/UnamSanctam/SilentETHMiner/

[DrekerboyStudio]

Hi it doesnt use any GPU when you start the exe it takes some time to run it then it will run the injected exe in my case I did notepad, then after about one minute you see notepad using about 35% gpu for one second and then It stops using the GPU at all. I'm mining XMR. btw it will use about 75% RAM all the time after the GPU of 35% spike.

[UnamSanctam]

Yes it should do that, it should only use a bit of GPU when it's initializing and then run at 0%. Check the GPU Memory with Process Hacker like how I said in my earlier reply and you should see if it's working or not.

[DrekerboyStudio]

I did, same thing the spike happens and then nothing. even after days of testing multiple things and letting it run for hours straight it also never showed up in my mining pool, also not in the history that it even connected for a second. I made a version that only mines cpu with the exact same settings and that does show up in the mining pool.

[UnamSanctam]

The spike happens in the Process Hacker GPU memory? Also, which GPU do you have?

[DrekerboyStudio]

Yes the GPU spike of 35% happens also in Process Hacker and after that nothing uses the GPU anymore. after that spike the GPU wont be used anymore but notepad will start using 75% of RAM i dont know why but this will not go down. its an older model AMD XFX R7900 GHOST, its just for testing. I also tried with multiple NVIDIA cards newer ones also but there it doesnt seem to even use any GPU at all and also I let it ran with NVIDIA GPU for hours for each single card. it only seems to even do anything with the AMD card but only that spike and then nothing.

[UnamSanctam]

Firstly, I'm pretty sure the RandomX (Monero) GPU algorithm requires above 4 GB of GPU Memory but Monero GPU mining isn't very profitable compared to other GPU mining so there's not a lot of information about it.

Secondly, RandomX will use about 2-4 GB of RAM so 75% could be correct depending on how much RAM you have.

Thirdly, can you screenshot the GPU Tab like this to show the activity?

[DrekerboyStudio]

I know it is not profitable, it is just a friend wanted to mine xmr on big scale in his warehouse and asked me to test it out for him thats why I know I shouldnt be using this builder for that sort of stuff but I had this one and wanted to try first if it even worked.

[UnamSanctam]

And you don't have 'Stealth' or anything enabled, right?

[DrekerboyStudio]

nope

[DrekerboyStudio]

If im the onlyone that has this problem its okay

[UnamSanctam]

Could you try and run this and see if the same happens? TESTGPU.zip

[DrekerboyStudio]

same thing happened its probably just me that has this problem, its okay still love your work!

[DrekerboyStudio]

Should I close the issue for you?

[UnamSanctam]

Ok, sure you can do that. Also just as a final thing, I recommend mining Monero on the CPU and Ethereum on the GPU at the same time for maximum profit on systems that have both.

[DrekerboyStudio]

Thanks for the tip, I will be testing that!