oclHashcat-plus 0.06 - md5(unix) keeps crashing on w7x64

[10x3rw]

My system always randomly freezes when running oclHashcat-plus against my md5(Unix) hashlist. White strips on monitor, numlock on keyboard doesnt respond.

My hw is 100% stable. Especially with oclHashcat-lite and another tasks.

I tried to check event viewer on Windows but didn't find any problem related to this issue.

Is there way how could I track down problems?


I had this with version 0.05 and 0.06. Should I rather try to run it on Linux?

Thank you

[atom]

you can try to lower -n and/or --gpu-loops. that should fix it.

[Rolf]

If it's a WDDM timeout(or no timeout) then it's just long kernel runtimes.
Fixed by lowering some settings, like -n and loops.

If not, well, HW is unstable.
Or the PSU is lousy.

[10x3rw]

Thanks for your advices. I tried to lower loops. It's very hard to say if it's fixed now. I need to wait.


Next newbie question:

What is strange to me is the fact that when running oclHashcat-plus, GPU fan is not as loud compared to oclHashcat-lite , or for example Bitcoin minning.

Does not it mean that GPU utilization is lower? If so shouldnt I except more stable behaviour compared to situations when fan is more louder?

I'm using ATI Radeon 5850

[Rolf]

Yeah, the "effective load" of the GPU is lower.
It may or may not be connected with the GPU utilization.

[atom]

any news on this?