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Hi

When I try and run hashcat, it says starting and then immediately returns to the command prompt.

D:\Tools\HashCat>hashcat -m 13711 -a 3 hash.tc testmask.hcmask
hashcat (v6.2.6) starting


D:\Tools\HashCat>

Not sure what to do. Please help.

please show output of hashcat -I

Hi

Same thing happens. Hashcat starts then immediately stops. I am using a freshly downloaded copy of hashcat.

D:\Tools\HashCat>hashcat -I
hashcat (v6.2.6) starting in backend information mode


D:\Tools\HashCat>

Thanks

please try latest beta from 

https://hashcat.net/beta/

what kind of pc do you have? what kind of gpu? did you installed the basic requirements? https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

Hi

D:\Tools\HashCat>nvidia-smi
Fri Mar 21 19:44:18 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 572.70                Driver Version: 572.70        CUDA Version: 12.8    |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                  Driver-Model | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |          Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                        |                        |              MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|  0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060      WDDM  |  00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 34%  43C    P0            N/A  /  115W |    776MiB /  8188MiB |      1%      Default |
|                                        |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

did you tried the last beta? or when using linux just compile latest git-version, and then try hashcat -I

if there is still no output, sry, no idea

try this
open cmd
use cd command to enter directory where hashcat exe is
then, ur command should start with .\hashcat.exe 

ex.
.\hashcat.exe -D 2 -m 1400 hashes/hash3.txt dict/rockyou.txt

hashes and dict folders i created.