user3151: This is purely an experiment for fun. This is for litecoins but can bitcoin people help me too :)
I am using litecoinqt to solo cpu mine, on my windows machine. Threads set between 4 and 10, scantime of 99.
My main computer has 4 cpu cores. But I am noticing the same speed as when I use my laptop which has only one cpu core. This makes me think I am not using all the cores on my main computer?
Is there a way to force the miner to use more cores?
Thanks

user3819: I don't really know about Litecoin-Qt but for a better result and to configure correctly the numer of threads I recommend you to use a software dedicated to LTC mining.
You can use https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer for only CPU and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0 for GPU.
You must have a pool but you can solo mine with the arg '-server' when launchin litecoin-qt.
I know it's more difficult than just use the LiteCoin-Qt miner but it is also more configurable and more efficient.

3151: <p>This is purely an experiment for fun. This is for litecoins but can bitcoin people help me too :)</p>

<p>I am using litecoinqt to solo cpu mine, on my windows machine. Threads set between 4 and 10, scantime of 99.</p>

<p>My main computer has 4 cpu cores. But I am noticing the same speed as when I use my laptop which has only one cpu core. This makes me think I am not using all the cores on my main computer?</p>

<p>Is there a way to force the miner to use more cores?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>
 3819: <p>I don't really know about Litecoin-Qt but for a better result and to configure correctly the numer of threads I recommend you to use a software dedicated to LTC mining.</p>

<p>You can use <a href="https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer</a> for only CPU and <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0</a> for GPU.</p>

<p>You must have a pool but you can solo mine with the arg '-server' when launchin litecoin-qt.</p>

<p>I know it's more difficult than just use the LiteCoin-Qt miner but it is also more configurable and more efficient.</p>
