New to mining.....be kind

[spauk]

I don't mine scrypt with GPU anymore but when I did months ago, sometimes the dynamic difficulty would get lower than 512 after a good while (several hours). It would go to 256. But to get good results solving blocks for most lower value/difficulty scrypt coins 1024 has been the best difficulty for my slower ASICs (about 1MH/s.)

[mrgoldy]

cgminer.exe -scrypt -o stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333 --user mrgoldy --pass :"scrypt"
pause

I tried cgminer(above), but it says below
it is detecting blocks, but keeps requesting work restart
Am I supposed to tell it to specifically use my CPU

cgminer version 4.10.0 - Started: [2017-06-06 20:48:50.307]
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(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s
A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:0.0/m
Connected to prohashing.com diff 4.1K with stratum as user mrgoldy
Block: 15a6768f... Diff:14K Started: [20:52:11.748] Best share: 0
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SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
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[2017-06-06 20:48:49.306] No devices detected!
[2017-06-06 20:48:49.306] Waiting for USB hotplug devices or press q to quit
[2017-06-06 20:48:49.306] Probing for an alive pool
[2017-06-06 20:48:49.431] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 4096
[2017-06-06 20:48:50.307] Network diff set to 10.6K
[2017-06-06 20:48:52.453] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2017-06-06 20:49:06.022] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2017-06-06 20:49:21.246] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2017-06-06 20:49:31.376] Network diff set to 75.6K
[2017-06-06 20:49:31.376] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 0
[2017-06-06 20:49:34.723] Network diff set to 5.95K
[2017-06-06 20:49:34.723] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 0
[2017-06-06 20:49:36.032] Network diff set to 11.2K
[2017-06-06 20:49:36.032] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 1686515
[2017-06-06 20:49:36.503] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2017-06-06 20:49:54.854] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2017-06-06 20:49:55.463] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block at height 1686516
[2017-06-06 20:50:11.034] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart

cgminer, sgminer, bfgminer, ccminer, minerd
this is all so confusing
I try to research what each one does or what it's best at, how do you know which miner is best for each device?

litecoinpool.org has a miner configuration, but list cg,sg,bfg as GPU, so how do you use your cg for CPU? or below use bfg for GPU/CPU?

then another site says
CGMiner is arguably the most famous and commonly used among Bitcoin miners at the moment.
CGMiner is based on the original code of CPU Miner.

BFGMiner is more or less the same as CGMiner.
The only major difference is that it doesn’t focus on GPUs like CGMiner but instead it is designed specifically for ASICs.

so cgminer is for CPU? but then bfgminer is the same but doesn't focus on GPUs?

I feel like there is so much conflicting information out there.

[GregoryGHarding]

password "scrypt" is wrong

a=scrypt is correct

[GregoryGHarding]

use minerd-multi by tpruvot @ https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi for CPU Mining, all others are for GPU or ASIC.
CGMiner lost CPU Compatibility many versions ago and focuses on AMD GPU's and ASIC's.
CCMiner is built for Nvidia GPU support
BFGMiner is a GPU miner for AMD

[mrgoldy]

use minerd-multi by tpruvot @ https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi for CPU Mining, all others are for GPU or ASIC.

That's what I thought, but lilbob said he used cgminer for CPU, which really confused me

[GregoryGHarding]

use minerd-multi by tpruvot @ https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi for CPU Mining, all others are for GPU or ASIC.

That's what I thought, but lilbob said he used cgminer for CPU, which really confused me

edited last post

[mrgoldy]

use minerd-multi by tpruvot @ https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi for CPU Mining, all others are for GPU or ASIC.
CGMiner lost CPU Compatibility many versions ago and focuses on AMD GPU's and ASIC's.
CCMiner is built for Nvidia GPU support
BFGMiner is a GPU miner for AMD

that makes so much more sense
that would explain why ccminer works with my Nvidia GTX765M
and why I've been having problems with CGMiner and BFGMiner

I have some ASICs currently en route to me, so it should be fun playing with CG or BFG to getting those working.

[GregoryGHarding]

glad to assist. that will be 2LTC. lol!

[mrgoldy]

LOL
When they start rolling in, I'll get back in touch with you

Just an FYI, I'm running
minerd-core-avx-i.exe
and
cpuminer-gw64-avx2.exe or cpuminer-gw64-corei7.exe or cpuminer-gw64-core2.exe

side by side, 1 thread each, and minerd is getting almost double the hashrate ~50kH/s vs 100kH/s
They produce the same numbers when ran alone one at time also

[GregoryGHarding]

LOL
When they start rolling in, I'll get back in touch with you

Just an FYI, I'm running
minerd-core-avx-i.exe
and
cpuminer-gw64-avx2.exe or cpuminer-gw64-corei7.exe or cpuminer-gw64-core2.exe

side by side, 1 thread each, and minerd is getting almost double the hashrate ~50kH/s vs 100kH/s
They produce the same numbers when ran alone one at time also

the x86 build will be faster from what ive read maybe thats your difference