How to mine litecoins with CGMiner on Windows

1. Create an account

Go to Register if you haven't already created an account.

2. Download CGMiner

Download CGMiner from here.

3. Unpack CGMiner to your hard drive

Open the archive you've just downloaded with 7-Zip, WinRAR or some other program and upack it to your hard drive.

4. Create your batch file

• 4.1. Change the file extension

  Create an empty text file. If you don't see the file extension (.txt) at the end of the new file like "New Text Document.txt" you have to change your folder options.
  Press the "ALT" key to open the following options.
  
  
  
  Click on "Folder options..." and uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types". Click OK.
  
  

• 4.2. Make your batch file

  Rename your newly created file to "coinat.bat"
  
  

• 4.3. Edit your batch file

  Right click on "coinat.bat" than "Edit"
  
  
  
  Enter the following lines
  
  

      color 02
      setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
      C:\path\to\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://ltc.coinat.com:3333 -u miner.1 -p x
                                                                                  

  ATTENTION: Do not forget to change the file path (C:\path\to\)!
  
  

5. Find your optimal graphics card settings

This step is very important and can require quite some time to squeeze out the last hash of your graphics card.
Go to Mining hardware comparison to see what other miners use for their graphics cards.
Some times it requires to tweak the settings even more, because every system is different.

6. Add the settings to your batch file

Open your batch file again and paste the settings
NOTE: Make sure "--scrypt" is included in the parameters list!

7. Prepare your worker

Go to coinat.com and login.
Than go to "My Account" > "My Workers" and make sure the worker credentials are the same as in your batch file.

8. Start mining

Right click on your batch file than click "Open" or double click it.



You should see something similar to this