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so ive tried for the past 8 hours to use cgminer bfgminer and sgminer to try and mine litecoin but on my earnings screen my worker shows no shares and no hashrate. ive looked at configs for my GPU and tried using those but i still get nothing. in the console it appears to be hashing away and other times i get "share above target". any ideas what im doing wrong? im at my wits end.

R9 290X GPU

cgminer version 3.7.2 - Started: [2017-12-13 05:06:12]
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ALL (10s):635.1K (avg):680.8Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:502.5/m
ST: 2 SS: 0 NB: 8 LW: 43 GF: 0 RF: 0
Connected to prohashing.com diff 65.5K with stratum as user guitarguy1133
Block: 65de6b18... Diff:3.03M Started: [05:07:19] Best share: 619
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[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0: 70.0C 3315RPM | 676.2K/715.7Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU: 502.5/m I:20
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[2017-12-13 05:07:09] Share above target
[2017-12-13 05:07:10] ALL (10s):639.4K (avg):691.3Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:553
.8/m
[2017-12-13 05:07:15] Share above target
[2017-12-13 05:07:17] Share above target
[2017-12-13 05:07:18] GPU0 69.0C 3297RPM | (10s):670.2K (avg):817.0Kh/s | A:0
R:0 HW:0 WU:603.0/m I:20
[2017-12-13 05:07:19] New block: 65de6b18b84380a1346118c3e23e22a807ab1c7970ee18
57c0922b70a98bd043... diff 3.03M
[2017-12-13 05:07:19] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2017-12-13 05:07:19] Work update message received
[2017-12-13 05:07:20] ALL (10s):635.1K (avg):680.8Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:502
.5/m


{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333",
"user" : "guitarguy1133",
"pass" : "n=guitarguy1133"
}
]
,
"scrypt" : true,
"intensity" : "20",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "512",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "24550",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "0",
"gpu-fan" : "0",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "90",
"temp-target" : "85",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "10",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"per-device-stats" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "1",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

as far as i am aware PH is a ASIC only pool, your GPU's will not work here.

The weird thing is that I actually earned some litecoin... i was able to manage 1 share about 10 mins ago... weird. maybe i got lucky.

guitarguy1133 wrote:so ive tried for the past 8 hours to use cgminer bfgminer and sgminer to try and mine litecoin but on my earnings screen my worker shows no shares and no hashrate. ive looked at configs for my GPU and tried using those but i still get nothing. in the console it appears to be hashing away and other times i get "share above target". any ideas what im doing wrong? im at my wits end.

R9 290X GPU

cgminer version 3.7.2 - Started: [2017-12-13 05:06:12]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALL (10s):635.1K (avg):680.8Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:502.5/m
ST: 2 SS: 0 NB: 8 LW: 43 GF: 0 RF: 0
Connected to prohashing.com diff 65.5K with stratum as user guitarguy1133
Block: 65de6b18... Diff:3.03M Started: [05:07:19] Best share: 619
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0: 70.0C 3315RPM | 676.2K/715.7Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU: 502.5/m I:20
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[2017-12-13 05:07:09] Share above target
[2017-12-13 05:07:10] ALL (10s):639.4K (avg):691.3Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:553
.8/m
[2017-12-13 05:07:15] Share above target
[2017-12-13 05:07:17] Share above target
[2017-12-13 05:07:18] GPU0 69.0C 3297RPM | (10s):670.2K (avg):817.0Kh/s | A:0
R:0 HW:0 WU:603.0/m I:20
[2017-12-13 05:07:19] New block: 65de6b18b84380a1346118c3e23e22a807ab1c7970ee18
57c0922b70a98bd043... diff 3.03M
[2017-12-13 05:07:19] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2017-12-13 05:07:19] Work update message received
[2017-12-13 05:07:20] ALL (10s):635.1K (avg):680.8Kh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:502
.5/m


{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333",
"user" : "guitarguy1133",
"pass" : "n=guitarguy1133"
}
]
,
"scrypt" : true,
"intensity" : "20",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "512",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "24550",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "0",
"gpu-fan" : "0",
"gpu-memclock" : "0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "90",
"temp-target" : "85",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "10",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"per-device-stats" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "1",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

The starting difficulty for the pool is 65536, which is extremely difficult for a GPU. It will take hours to find a single share.

You're still earning the same amount of money as if you were using a lower starting difficulty, but the variance will be high.

In addition, as someone above said, GPUs are horrible for mining scrypt or x11. I recommend finding an Ethereum mining pool, where your GPU will be much more profitable.