Hashcat says its starting and then nothing happens

[philsmd]

Please follow this guide: https://hashcat.net/faq/wrongdriver)

also always mention what your GPUs / CPUs / operating system / drivers are.


if you want to start a mask attack, you should also always specify a mask (otherwise the default mask is used which is probably not what you wanted in each and every situation), see https://hashcat.net/wiki/?id=mask_attack