Litecoin (Everyone should read this first regardless)
First of all, you'll need a CPU miner and a GPU miner. For CPU I highly recommend this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0
For GPU I highly reccommend this (optimized for NVIDIA)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0
Now, you need to actually start mining. The first thing is selecting a pool, just search online for one or you could try this: http://pool.gotgrapedrink.com
Once you have selected a pool, go to your account and setup two miners... name them whatever you want, I usually just use 1 and 2, password is obviously your choice. Next go to their get started page (or wherever they have the mining URL) and copy that and the port.
Now,
1. extract both the CPU miner and GPU miner into different folders
2. launch notepad and for the CPU miner copy/paste in this:
minerd -o http://pool.gotgrapedrink.com:9344 -O USERNAME:PASSWORD
3. modify the pool URL to whichever you want and put in one of your miner usernames and passwords in where USERNAME and PASSWORD are.
4. save this into your CPU miner directory as launch.bat (make sure to select all files in notepad and name it launch.bat not launch.bat.txt)
5. make a new notepad file for GPU miner and paste in this:
cudaminer -o http://pool.gotgrapedrink.com:9344 -O USER:PASS -i 1
Modify as before with pool URL and this time put in the other miner username/password.
6. Save this into your GPU miner directory as launch.bat (same as above)
7. Run the GPU miner once by double-clicking on launch.bat and let it go through the auto-tuning. You will notice that it crashes when auto-tuning completes but it shows you what it figured out (should be something like 69x2 or 100x3 or something similar)
8. open your gpu miner launch.bat again in notepad and add -l (whatever autotuning said). It should look something like:
cudaminer -o http://pool.gotgrapedrink.com:9344 -O USER:PASS -i 1 -l 69x2
You can also remove the -i 1 if you are not going to use the computer while mining and add it back in if you are.
Congrats! You should now be able to mine efficiently on an NVIDIA GPU! Just launch both the CPU miner and GPU miner and you should be good to go. A few things to note:
1. -C 0 is no longer required. In the latest update (go download it), a bunch of stuff was fixed and a new feature was added. -C defaults to 0 now because the gains were artificial and cause by an error in code. He's not sure if there will actually be any performance gain when it does work properly.
2. READ THROUGH THE README INCLUDED WITH THE GPU MINER!!! This will be really helpful later.
------------SOLO MINING--------------
**WARNING: THIS METHOD NOT RECOMMENDED FOR LITECOIN UNLESS YOU HAVE A HASHRATE OF > 500 MEGA HASHES. If you want to solo mine with low hashrate, try a less mature coin like feathercoin (same steps apply just with that coin's client and the litecoin.conf file should be renamed to [coinname].conf**
First, you need to download the litecoin client. Once you have done this, run it once and make sure it has caught up on the blockchain. Once it has, close it.
Now, open up the start menu and type %appdata% then press enter. Find the folder called litecoin and open it. Create a new text document and name it "litecoin.conf" then paste this into it:
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=miner
rpcpassword=[SetSomeRandomPassword]
rpcport=8100
port=8101
Save the file and run the litecoin client again.
Now follow the steps above. When you have, come back here.
After you have followed the above steps, open up your launch.bat for both gpu and cpu miners and change the address to:
http://127.0.0.1:8100
and the miner info to:
miner:[whatever you put the password as]
so it should be like:
cudaminer -o http://127.0.0.1:8100 -O miner:[password]
That should be it. Save the launch.bat files and start mining :)
------ Mining FeatherCoin ------
1. Go to this thread and download the Windows GUI version: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.0
2. Download and extract the CPU and GPU miner at beginning of topic if you havent already
3. Create or modify a file called launch.bat in both the folders of the CPU and GPU miner. For Cudaminer, paste this in:
cudaminer -O http://fpool1.zapto.org:19327 -o [paste your address here]:[whatever the hell you want]
To find your address for litecoin, go into the litecoin application, go to the receive coins tab, and copy your address. Feel free to add your own launch options for cudaminer as noted in the first part of the guide.
For CPU miner:
cudaminer -O http://fpool1.zapto.org:19327 -o [paste your address here]:[whatever the hell you want]
4. Start your miners
5. Profit!!! ;)
