lolMiner 1.05: Further improved Beam Hash III speed and some fixes

[Joseph12]

                        Lol Miner v1.05

This is the announcement thread for lolMiner 1.05 a multi algorithm Equihash / Beam & Grin miner with focus on AMD GPUs (OpenCL based).
Note it will run on most Nvidia GPUs, too but the speed and stability may vary.


Downloads:
Lol Miner 1.05 for Windows
Lol Miner 1.05 for Linux


Driver Requirement:
Windows: Adrenaline 19.1 & newer (pre Navi) / 19.10.02 & newer (Navi), Linux: 18.10 & newer (RX 390, Fury, 470-580),  18.50 & newer (Vega, VII), 19.30 & newer (Navi)
Note: New Beam Hash III may support Blockchain drivers (untested)

Algorithms:

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Algorithm     Solvers for Memory Size
Beam Hash I        3G / 4G
Beam Hash II       3G / 4G
Beam Hash III      6G
Cuckatoo-31        4G / 8G / 16G
Cuckatoo-32        4G / 8G / 16G
Cuckaroo-30CTX     8G
CuckarooD-29       4G / 6G
CuckarooM-29       6G / 8G
ZelHash            3G / 4G
Equihash 144/5     2G
Equihash 192/7     3G / 4G
Equihash 210/9     2G
Changelog

Version 1.03

• New Beam Hash III 4G solver, replaces the 6G solver on AMD Vega GPUs and earlier (+5 - 8% performance on RX 580 & Vega GPUs)
• New Beam Hash III 6G solver on ROCm and for AMD Navi GPUs (+8-10% performance on Navi cards)
• Fixed a bug with the API (--apiport) crashing the miner in Windows on startup

Version 1.02

• Disabled Beam Hash III auto switcher. --coin BEAM now pointing to --algo BEAM-III - this should resolve some config problems
• Fixed a bug that made the miner not starting BEAM-III on RX 550 4G GPUs
• Fixed a bug that made the miner not start mining Cortex
• Fixed a bug with Beam Hash I 3G solver (miners did not find it)
• Fixed a bug not writing a log file when --log on was given
• Fixed a bug with parameter --digits (was missing in 1.0 and 1.01)
• Re-Enabled parameter --port, but with a big red deprecation warning. Will resolve some 1.0 config problems

Version 1.01

• Improved performance of Beam Hash III on all 6G+ cards (by about 4-5%)
• Added 3G* / 4G solver for Beam Hash III (will not work in Windows 10 and some older AMD cards)
• Fixed an issue with mining Beam Hash III to NiceHash
• --tls now allowed to be used multiple times to configure it for each pool separately
• If found the miner will now load the user_config.json file per default again (fixes issues with minerstat)
• Fixed temperature and power monitoring for VII and Navi on Windows 10 (Fan speed may still be broken ... work in progress)

Version 1.0

• lolMiner got a restructure how to configure it and also features a 2nd, more simple config file format.
• Added optimizes solvers for Beam Hash III for AMD & Nvidia cards. Use --coin BEAM to auto switch from BeamHash II to BeamHash III on fork (approx June 28th, requires 8G card) or select Beam Hash III solver manually with --algo BEAM-III (requires 6G card)[/size]
• Added performance improved (+ >10%) GRIN-C29M solver for 8G GPUs
• Added Cuckaroo-30 solver to mine Cortex Ai (--coin CTXC or --algo C30CTX) for all 8G and higher GPUs
• Added support for non-integer difficulty on Grin
• Reactivated support for Beam Hash I including support for personalization strings.
• AMD Navi does now work on all supported algorithms
• Removed Grin Auto-Switcher (C31 is obsolete now and the switcher would not work on next Grin fork)
• Removed support for MNX (Minex Coin project is dead / abandoned by developers)
• Added temperature, consumption and fan speed readings in API and long statistics
• Internal bug fixes