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XMR-Stak may not update system configuration files if hardware is added or removed

Marvin Parsons 6 years ago 0

Assuming I'm correct here, (still somewhat very newb), I thought this may be useful info for people having difficulty getting XMR-Stak to mine with all their gpus.

If you run XMR-Stak without any configuration files present it creates them.

The 2 files it can create based on your computer configuration are cpu.txt and either nvidia.txt or amd.txt. If you don't have a pool.txt file in the directory, on first run it will ask you relevant questions and create that as well.

If you then add or remove a video card or upgrade your CPU it will still use the info initially created in those configuration files which will of course be wrong.

When you make changes to your computer that would affect the GPU or CPU info you should delete the file(s) relevant to those changes so XMR-Stak can create new ones on the next run.

I was having issues getting it to use my 1050ti until I discovered it was trying to use a card that had never been in that rig before. I'd copied the folder over to that rig from my computer not realizing I had to delete those files so it could recreate them for the different system.