GTX 1080 OC settings PIL applied to all cards

Hello Gents,

I am news to mining and I have been trying to activate the “enlargement pill” for the 1080s only but for some reason, the setting gets applied to all cards and they stop mining.

After rebooting, the miner does not start and generates the following error


17:59:24 Nvidia Driver: 470.86
17:59:25 Failed to initialize miner on GPU3: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB [0000:05:00.0]: unspecified launch failure
17:59:25 Failed to initialize miner on GPU4: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB [0000:06:00.0]: unspecified launch failure
17:59:25 Failed to initialize miner on GPU5: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB [0000:07:00.0]: unspecified launch failure
17:59:25 Failed to initialize miner on GPU6: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB [0000:08:00.0]: unspecified launch failure
17:59:26 Connected to daggerhashimoto.eu.nicehash.com:3353 [172.65.200.133]
17:59:26 Subscribed to Stratum Server
17:59:26 Set Extra Nonce: 94e891
17:59:26 Authorized on Stratum Server
17:59:26 New Job: 00000000520ef5d4 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:26 Started Mining on GPU0: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB [0000:01:00.0]

17:59:26 Started Mining on GPU1: COLORFUL NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB [0000:02:00.0]
17:59:26 Started Mining on GPU2: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB [0000:03:00.0]
17:59:26 New Job: 00000000520ef5d5 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:27 New Job: 00000000520ef5d6 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:27 New Job: 00000000520ef5d7 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:28 New Job: 00000000520ef5d8 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:28 New Job: 00000000520ef5d9 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:29 New Job: 00000000520ef5da Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:30 New Job: 00000000520ef5db Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:31 New Job: 00000000520ef5dc Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:32 New Job: 00000000520ef5dd Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:33 New Job: 00000000520ef5de Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:34 New Job: 00000000520ef5df Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:35 New Job: 00000000520ef5e0 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:36 New Job: 00000000520ef5e1 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:37 New Job: 00000000520ef5e2 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:37 New Job: 00000000520ef5e3 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:38 New Job: 00000000520ef5e4 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:39 New Job: 00000000520ef5e5 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:40 New Job: 00000000520ef5e6 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:41 New Job: 00000000520ef5e7 Epoch: #461 Diff: 1.061G
17:59:41 Error on GPU0: unspecified launch failure
17:59:41 Stopped Mining on GPU0
17:59:41 Error on GPU2: unspecified launch failure
17:59:41 Stopped Mining on GPU2
17:59:41 Error on GPU1: unspecified launch failure
17:59:41 Stopped Mining on GPU1
17:59:42 Miner terminated, watchdog will restart process after 10 seconds

What I am missing or doing wong? Could you please guide me to the right direction?

Thanks a lot!

Use the miners memory tweak option instead of the pill, you can specify which cards to apply it to in the miner config, more stable than using the pill as well.

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Thank you for your input. I will try to Google my way into how to tweak the miners memory. Any link would be extremely helpful :slight_smile: ThankYA


You can ususally go to the doc linked a the bottom for more parameter details.
Here are my 1080’s

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Wonderful @bobc5025 :slight_smile: I will try your settings and get back to you with my results!
Appreciate your support mate.

Hello @bobc5025, I went through the documentation as you recommended and I learned that “mt”:“6” (applies tweak mode #6 to all cards that support the functionality). Which means that the
ETHlargementPill is applied to all supported Pascal GPUs with GDDR5 or GDDR5X memory.

Thank you & @keaton_hiveon for guiding me on this!
Merry Christrmas and Happy 2022 :christmas_tree: :christmas_tree: :christmas_tree:

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Mt is different and gets more hash then the pill you can also dial it back on one card if needed. If you use commas like I did you can specify which cards are which level of mt. The pill hasn’t been updated in years when I last checked it.

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Sure thing :+1:

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