NiceHash Miner

• Introduction
• What are the benefits?
• Features
• Requirements
• How to get&run it?
• Where is the profit coming from?
• How to run NiceHash Miner only when profitability is high enough?
• Additional options
• Troubleshooting
• How to report bugs and issues?

Introduction

NiceHash Miner is a continuation of NiceHash Miner Legacy. This version is intended for beginners or experienced miners that want the quickest updates and highest hashrates, and are okay with customization of the antivirus. Please check out quick guide about NiceHash Miner, so that your experience will be even better.

Please follow us on Twitter @NiceHashMining or on our Blog for updates on new versions and other important information.

What are the benefits?

NiceHash Miner is an advanced auto-miner that supports the latest algorithms and miners. No need to go through tons of configuration files, various mining software versions, configuration tuning or cryptocurrency coins market analysis. Auto-tuning for best performance and efficiency, automatic selection and runtime automatic switching to most profitable cryptocurrency algorithm are all integrated into NiceHash Miner and will enable you seamless, joyful and profitable mining experience.

Features

• Easy one-click CPU mining for CPUs that support at least AES (only works on Windows x64).
• Easy one-click GPU mining for NVIDIA GPUs using microarchitecture (compute capability) SM 5.3+.
• Easy one-click GPU mining for AMD GPUs using any AMD GPU devices that supports OpenCL.
• Full 100% LHR Unlock with selected plugins.
• Integrated support for Simple Multi-Algorithm. Always mine most profitable algorithm.
• Integrated benchmarking tool. Run it only once before you start mining and after every hardware/driver/software upgrade.
• Watch-feature - automatically restart miner if crashed or hanged.
• Display current rate and your balance in real time.
• Auto update notifications.
• Much more...

Requirements

• Windows 10 or newer operating system 64-bit
• [Note: Windows 10 is recommended and will provide you a much better user experience]
• For CPU mining a modern CPU with AES support
• For AMD mining any AMD GPU with OpenCL support
• For NVIDIA mining any NVIDIA GPU with Compute capability (SM) 5.3 or newer
• up-to-date patches for OS
• up-to-date drivers for all GPUs
• Reliable internet connectivity
• For GPU Mining, paging file size of 60% of your total GPU VRAM memory
• Personal Mining wallet (you can create one by registering on NiceHash page)

How to get&run it?

All you have to do is download zip package or installer exe from the releases page. If you choose installer just run it and follow the instructions. In case of zip package extract it and run the miner. After that enter your Bitcoin wallet address where you want to get your coins sent at - and you are ready to start mining and maximizing your profit.

Note: Windows 10 with .NET Framework 6.0 or higher and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015 are required. However, if you encounter any issues when starting application (application would fail to start or errors/warnings about missing DLL files are displayed) you should download and install Microsoft .NET Framework 6.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015 (vcredist_x64.exe) (after installation a reboot might be required).

Detailed instructions:

• Download binaries from here: https://github.com/nicehash/NiceHashMiner/releases

1. Installer
   • Run installer file (nhm_windows_3.x.y.z.exe)
   • Follow the instructions
2. Zip archive
   • Extract zip archive
   • Run NiceHashMiner.exe

• Make sure you select your own personal Bitcoin wallet to receive payments, see Bitcoin wallet guidelines and instructions here: https://www.nicehash.com/support/general-help/wallet/how-to-use-nicehash-wallet.
• You will receive Bitcoin payments according to our payments schedule: https://www.nicehash.com/support/mining-help/earnings-and-payments/when-and-how-do-you-get-paid

Where is the profit coming from?

As a back-end NiceHash Miner relies on the NiceHash.com service. By running NiceHash Miner you're essentially selling the hashing power of your CPUs & GPUs to hashing power buyers. Those are using the hashing power to mine various cryptocurrency coins and support decentralized blockchain networks - similar to cloud computing - only that by running NiceHash Miner you're actually being a provider for the cryptocurrency mining hashing power. You are being part of a global compute power network, empowering decentralized digital currencies.

How to run NiceHash Miner only when profitability is high enough?

Profitability of mining can go up and down that may be unprofitable to mine especially places with high electricity cost. By using the "MinimumProfit" settings, NiceHashMiner will stop mining if the current profits are below the minimum amount (in USD). This will help you mine during "profitable" times only.

Additional options

Go to 'Settings' tab. Alternatively, you can manually modify \configs\General.json for general settings and \configs\device_settings_XXX.json (XXX is your device UUID) files for device benchmark settings (close NiceHash Miner first).

General settings

Benchmark settings (per device)

Examples:

{
    "Name": "NBMiner",
    "PluginUUID": "03f80500-94ec-11ea-a64d-17be303ea466",
    "PluginVersion": "11.0",
    "AlgorithmIDs": "KAWPOW",
    "Speeds": [
      8841376.5
    ],
    "ExtraLaunchParameters": "",
    "Enabled": true,
    "PowerUsage": 113.81357777777778
}

Troubleshooting

My NVIDIA video card(s) is/are not detected.

Make sure to install latest official NVIDIA drivers from here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx Also check whether your card has Compute capability (version) 3.0+, check here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#GPUs_supported

My AMD video card(s) is/are not detected.

Make sure to install latest official AMD drivers from here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download Also check whether your card supports OpenCL, check "OpenCL" column here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

When uninstalling or reinstalling display drivers we suggest you to use Guru 3D Display Driver Uninstaller. This utility will make sure you get a clean driver state. You can download it here. If you are using Windows 10, the AMD installer utility is sometimes unable to install drivers, therefore you have to install them manually. Download and run diver installer, let it extract the archive and then cancel it when prompted to execute actual install. After this go to Control Panel / System / Device Manager, Right click on your GPU, choose to Update driver manually and point to c:\AMD[driver version] folder to finish the manual driver installation.

Google Chrome is blocking the download of the application

Google Chrome falsely flags NiceHash Miner as a potentially unwanted program and thus prevents you from saving the program archive on your computer. This is an issue with Google Chrome and not with NiceHash Miner. Use another browser such as Firefox or Edge to download the file instead. Also, read 'My anti-virus is blocking the application' below.

My benchmarking results are not accurate

Any kind of automation can only be done up to a particular level. We've spent significant effort to make benchmarking as good as possible, but it can't be made ideal. If you still see a deviation of actual mining speed from the one, calculated from benchmark, then you should manually enter these observed speed numbers from actual mining into config.json file or set them via the "Benchmark" tab.

Benchmarks on particular algorithms keep getting terminated on AMD GPUs

In some particular combinations of Windows version + AMD Driver version benchmarks on some algorithms keep getting terminated. If the particular algorithm that is being terminated is shown on pause on the front page of NiceHash.com (No orders - mining unavailable), then this is normal expected behaviour. However, if benchmark is also terminated for active algorithms, then you have to try manual benchmarking.

How to report bugs and issues?

To report bugs and issues please use the GitHub issue reporting tool: https://github.com/nicehash/NiceHashMiner/issues. Any bugs and issues reports are very much appreciated since it helps us to improve NiceHash Miner. Thank you.