SWARM.1.8.4

This is a beta release! Updates disabled!

NOTE: There is a small typo in nicehash.ps1 file. I wrote "eq" instead of "eu" for european servers. I will fix in next release coming soon.

1.8.4

Major Changes:

NOTE: FRESH INSTALL HIGHLY SUGGESTED! Beta version from all
the changes/additions.

-Statics have been compeletly rebuilt.
-Pool files were all modified,
-Most of every databasing function has been rewritten.
-Taking a new, completely my design approach to profit statistics.
-Taking workers, fees, and pool hashrates into accout- Beyond simple estimates.
-Entirely new profit equation.
-Returns seem to be more exact, especially when stat_algo day is used. (but live seems to be best).
-System is improved, but more changes to account for SWARM_Mode will be made.

-Custom Yiimp Miner Pools
-You can now create your own mining pool files
-Instructions on how to create them included in sample file:
.\algopools\custom.ps1
-It's as easy as filling out a small 10 question form.
-Can be duplicated, but same pool duplication not advised.
-Rename custom.ps1 to bsod.ps1, and you should add a lyra2vc0ban coin
-Requires wallets for coins- No Auto-Exchange.
-Useful for testing profitibility of coins outside auto-exchange pools.

-API server now established:
-http://localhost:4099/summary will get you swarm pricing data
-http://localhost:4099/getstats will get you mining data
-Much more is coming soon- Full API method to modify SWARM will exist
-Sample API for demonstration is included: Sample-API.ps1
note: As I update API, I will add how to use via Sample-API.ps1
-Currently this is local, until I finish. I plan to make remote.

-New Arguments:
-AMDPlatform was removed. Use CLPlatform instead, only if needed.
Swarm should detect.
-API: Default is yes, if you have issues, you can remove it its
by specifying -API No
-Nicehash_Wallet(1,2,3) no longer needed, however, you can still specify.
-NiceHash_Fee set to default of 2% if using Nicehash_Wallet, 5% if not (per site).

-Time Syncronization:
For better SWARM_Mode optimization, all swarm apps will Sycronize
their time with NIST servers at start.

-Adminstrator
SWARM now runs in administrator mode. This allows the following:
-more GUI manipulation.
-Modify time settings.
-Launch miners with admin privelages (it helps amd side).
-modify registry entries for Vega Soft Powerplay Tables.
-in future: modify registry for gpu optimizations users may
not be aware of.
-in future: remotely update NVIDIA/AMD drivers with single command.
-ps can not run applications as admin
-ensure security settings are good on your windows computer/network.

-Agent rebuild
-Rebuilt agent to better gather api stats from miners.
-Rebuilt C++ software to better gather api stats from GPU drivers.
-Removed as much error generation as I could possibly find (when API fails).
-background no longer closes, but still octunes when switch occurs. (within a few seconds).
-GPU stats are gathered from hive stats file, no gpu api is used.
-Rebuilt linux api gpu stat generation.
-Rebuilt windows api gpu stats generation.
-Rebuilt most of the api's for each miner.
-Focused on lowered mem use, and resource uses...However more things
are happening in background, so there should be no change.
-There is a table corruption in .\odvii.exe. This is an AMD driver bug.
I cannot fix, but it doesn't seem to cause issues. It just creates error logs
in windows event veiwer.

-New miners
-bminer added
-zhash & Phoenix Miner API are fixed (I believe).
-warning: Miniz was giving me issues.
-warning: ccmineryescrypt, cryptodredge, fancyIX,
wildrig on certain algos may cause issues.
-warning: Some AMD gpu's may not run all AMD miners.

-Bus statistics fixed.
-Better GPU detection.
-Windows now automatically detects OpenCL Platform
note: This was working for me. Please let me know
if you have issues.
-Does not count GPU's that SWARM isn't using
note: This was working for me. Please let me know
if you have issues.
-Removed NVIDIA integrated motherboard cards from count.

-Minimized
-All windows are either ran hidden/minimized except main
window.
-Windows will now set their own colors for visualization
optimizations.

-Crash reporting
-If miner is restarted- SWARM detects this, and will
perform an crash report.
-Crash reports takes a "flashed image" of all debugging
data located txt folder, which accounts for 75% of SWARMs
internal statistics.
-This data is unchanged, which means you can review incidents,
what miners were running, etc., to determine failures. Or send
me the crash report, and let me figure it out.

-Miners Updated

-Gui fixes everywhere. Attempted to remove as many erroneous powershell
errors/warnings as possible.

-Lots, and lots, and LOTS of small fixes. Too many to detail.