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hashcat not working - kaupta - 07-10-2024

hi all,

i am a noob to hashcat and i need help.
im running windows 11 with a gtx4060 on a laptop.
every time i go to use hashcat it wont do anything, it says starting, waits about 5 seconds then goes back to typing.
all drivers are up to date, even redownloaded hashcat. still nothing
any help is greatly appreciated.


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RE: hashcat not working - Snoopy - 07-10-2024

please show output of

hashcat -I

anyway, if possible try running hashcat from another partition, sometimes windows is a little bit bitchy when running such programs from the systemdrive


RE: hashcat not working - shima - 09-11-2024

(07-10-2024, 12:18 PM)Snoopy Wrote: please show output of

hashcat -I

anyway, if possible try running hashcat from another partition, sometimes windows is a little bit bitchy when running such programs from the systemdrive

I'm having the same problem on a laptop with Windows 11 and a RTX 3070 Ti. No output regardless of command. I don't have a second partition so I tried to run it from USB drive with same result.


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RE: hashcat not working - Snoopy - 09-12-2024

well this seems more like a driver / software problem

it looks like hashcat isn't really starting, but instantly crashing

first please try latest beta from https://hashcat.net/beta/ as the original release is quite old

please try installing CUDA SDK all along with a supported driver version (see https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/cuda-compatibility/index.html)

after that reboot and try hashcat -I again


RE: hashcat not working - shima - 09-12-2024

(09-12-2024, 04:23 PM)Snoopy Wrote: well this seems more like a driver / software problem

it looks like hashcat isn't really starting, but instantly crashing

first please try latest beta from https://hashcat.net/beta/ as the original release is quite old

please try installing CUDA SDK all along with a supported driver version (see https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/cuda-compatibility/index.html)

after that reboot and try hashcat -I again

This was after a fresh install of CUDA Toolkit 12.6. I've checked that the NVIDIA driver is compatible and ran commands that seem to verify that CUDA is working as it should. I tried the hashcat beta, but got the same results as before. It doesn't crash instantly though. Both with the stable and beta release, it takes about 10 seconds from entering the command until the prompt is returned.


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RE: hashcat not working - shima - 09-15-2024

(09-12-2024, 07:23 PM)shima Wrote:
(09-12-2024, 04:23 PM)Snoopy Wrote: well this seems more like a driver / software problem

it looks like hashcat isn't really starting, but instantly crashing

first please try latest beta from https://hashcat.net/beta/ as the original release is quite old

please try installing CUDA SDK all along with a supported driver version (see https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/cuda-compatibility/index.html)

after that reboot and try hashcat -I again

This was after a fresh install of CUDA Toolkit 12.6. I've checked that the NVIDIA driver is compatible and ran commands that seem to verify that CUDA is working as it should. I tried the hashcat beta, but got the same results as before. It doesn't crash instantly though. Both with the stable and beta release, it takes about 10 seconds from entering the command until the prompt is returned.

Just to let you know, I found the solution in this post from last year. Seemed to solve the problem nicely!

https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-11357-post-58060.html#pid58060