Or, if you want to just plot k32, you don’t need to install chia at all. You can download just the plotter from Stotiks github page. (it is the official Win build for MM).
The code is old (about a year), but (I think) it is the same code as bundled with the chia installation (the chia_plot.exe).
Alternatively, you can copy that chia_plot.exe from any Win box, as it doesn’t have any dependencies on the rest of chia code.
Whats the size of that windows11 disk? Take it out and save it and replace it and install windows 10. Then you can cookie cutter all of this stuff. Ebay has great deals on Samsung EVO SSD disks (wouldn’t get anything smaller than 500gb).
On my plotter, I have chia v1.3.3, and chia_plot claims version “1.1.6-2092041”
The latest stotiks’ version replies “Build 0.1.6-chives for Windows.”
If you really want to have the latest code, then MMX has mmx_plot that gives “1.1.8-4390eb5” Although, I don’t think that in that code there are any “plot creation” improvements, but rather just MMX related adjustments. Plot times, and RAM requirements are basically the same as with stotiks’ build v0.1.6.
If you go to Max’s github Issues page, you will see there Max stating that Stotiks’ builds are the official Windows builds. Although, it may be that his comment is only related to MMX side.
Stotiks is not changing the original code, he only wraps it in Microsoft Visual Studio project, and builds it as is. So, yes, those two binaries are different (Chia vs. Stotiks), but the underlying code is most likely the same. Of course, chia_plot-k34.exe has code that is not included in Stotiks’ build.
It may be that MMX will have a new plotter in a month/two, but I am not sure whether anything was announced about it yet. Also, I am not sure whether that plotter will be still compatible with the Chia project (I would think that it will have speed improvements similar to what BB Disk is working on, and potentially compression similar to NoSSD, but that is just my guess).
My comment, where I wrote that @jonesjr already has the executables, was aimed at no one in particular (I will always identify to whom my comment refers – if I don’t screw up).
@jonesjr was asking about plotting without the GUI, and I was pointing out that he already has the executables, based on him installing the GUI and having issues with getting it to run.
By the way, the standard Chia executable: “chia plots create …” will also create k34 plots, with the -k option (upper limit is k35). But it is a slug, compared to madmax.
@jonesjr has not chimed in, and he was having issues. I do not know the extent of his issues. And he did not know about his already installed executables.
With the above in mind, I wanted him to know all of his options. With his current unknown state of his hardware and OS, etc, I thought it best to spell it out, in case he has an issue with the madmax command line.
chia_plot.exe is equivalent to stotiks’ build (as far as the code base). chia_plot_k34.exe is a new code that is not included with stotiks’ plotter build. mmx_plot.exe (included with stotics’ mmx-node build) can build at least up to k34 (based on Max’s discord - FAQ, as --help gives the old k32 stuff).
By the way, MMX blockchain will support k30 and up. As with higher k-values the hash density drops slightly per TB of disk space, maybe that is the reason to not have much interest in higher k-value plotting options.