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If you are mining Scrypt crypto currencies such as Litecoin or maybe DOGE, then you are most likely using cgminer as a mining software or something that relies on cgminer as a backend. The author of cgminer (Con Kolivas) however seems to have decided to continue support of cgminer only for ASIC mining for SHA-256 cryptos such as Bitcoin and version 3.7.2 is the last one for cgminer to support GPU mining for scrypt crypto coins. Furthermore the windows version of the last cgminer to support GPU mining has been removed from the official download location, you can however download cgminer 3.7.2 with GPU support for windows here.
More importantly, there are already some alternatives that are based around the original source code of cgminer 3.7.2, but add extra features and offer improvements that are not found in the original software. One such version based on cgminer 3.7.2 is Martin “Kalroth” Danielsen’s cgminer 3.7.2 that he calls cgminer 3.7.3 in order for the users to be able to differentiate between the original and his version. In cgminer 3.7.2 kalroth (cgminer 3.7.3) he has made changes to the visual interface to make it more user friendly and functionality that can help you squeeze a bit more performance out of your GPU mining hardware. Some of the notable differences include support for multiple pool load balancing, implementation for idle state for GPUs when there’s no work, two additional modes for controlling intensity – xintensity and rawintensity for additional performance, faster failover pool switching back delay and interface improvements such as uptime status or percentage of rejected shares and so on. Definitely something to try and see if you like this version of cgminer better than the original 3.7.2.
– You can download cgminer 3.7.3 karloth with GPU mining support for Windows OS here…
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Download cgminer 3.7.2 with GPU support for Windows
31, Jan 2014
It seems that the author of cgminer has removed the compiled Windows version of cgminer 3.7.2 from the official download location here and you may have a hard time finding it at a different safe location. The cgminer version 3.7.2 is the latest official version of cgminer with GPU mining support, all newer versions are designed for use only with SHA-256 ASIC miners for Bitcoins and will not work on GPUs for scrypt mining anymore. So if you are mining for Litecoin (LTC) or other alternative scrypt-based crypto currency you would need to download cgminer 3.7.2 in order to be able to use your graphics cards for mining it. The official download location only offers source code versions of the cgminer and that goes for cgminer 4.0 or newer only. So if you need to download cgminer 3.7.2 for Windows you can do so from the link below as we have provided a mirror location.
Example command line for Scrypt mining:
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://eu.multipool.us:7777 -u yourworker.1 -p password
Alternatively you can edit the cgminer.conf file with your mining settings and just run the cgminer.exe executable file to start mining.
– You can download cgminer 3.7.2 with GPU mining support for Windows OS here…
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If you are a miner that just wants to take a good profit if/while the Karlsen (KLS) craziness continues you might want to check out our quick tutorial on how to maximize your mining profit dual mining Karlsen (KLS) and Zilliqa (ZIL) with the latest Rigel miner 1.10.0 (Nvidia only) along with utilizing the Unmineable mining pool to autoconvert the mined KLS to Bitcoin (BTC) or KAS or any other of the supported crypto coins. This way you don’t have to rely on a local console Karlsen wallet or have to deal with exchanges to sell the mined coins. It is very similar to how NiceHash works, but NiceHash has not yet listed KLS, so there is no need to wait for them and you can act now. Apart from the Rigel miner, the latest GMiner (Nvidia only) has also added support for Karlsen and ZIL dual mining, and BzMiner, lolMiner and SRBMiner-Multi do support Karlsen only. We like the performance and ease of use of the Rigel miner and if you have used it for mining KAS on GPUs previously, then it is very easy to switch your config to mine Karlsen by changing the algorithm and the wallet address to a Karlsen one.
Here is command line example to get you started:
rigel -a karlsenhash+zil ^
-o [1]stratum+ssl://karlsenhash-eu.unmineable.com:4444 -u [1]BTC:WALLET_ADDRESS ^
-o [2]stratum+tcp://eu.crazypool.org:5005 -u [2]ZIL_WALLET_ADDRESS ^
-w WORKER_ID --log-file logs/miner.log --no-strict-ssl ^
--cclock 250 ^
--lock-cclock [1]1750 --lock-mclock [1]807 ^
--lock-cclock [2]1050 --mclock [2]1000
The above example is ready to be used and tweaked on RTX 3070 or similar GPUs, it uses the Unminable service with Bitcoin payouts (make sure you set your address) and Crazypool for ZIL mining (make sure you set your address), then also set your WORKER_ID as well. Just like KAS, Karlsen does not need much memory, so you can lower the clock to the minimum and keep the GPU clock higher utilizing the maximum offset your cards can sustain for reduced power usage.
You can check your mining status at:
For Unmineable: https://unmineable.com/coins/BTC/address/YOUR_BTC_WALLET_ADDRESS
For Crazypool: https://zil.crazypool.org/#/account/YOUR_ZIL_WALLET_ADDRESS
Make sure you set your mining wallet addresses in both of the above URLs in order to be able to see your own stats!