there are two problems here, but the main problem is the driver setup problem.
We saw this problem a couple of times in the past where it seems that hashcat crashes on the "Initializing" line, but it was always the driver that had some problem.
I would highly suggest to use this: https://hashcat.net/faq/wrongdriver to cleanly re-install the AMD driver.
In theory, you could later (after cleanly re-installing the driver) test with independent tools like clinfo.exe (just google.it).
The output of clinfo (and error messages or crashes of it) would also proof that it's not really hashcat crashing, but the driver forces the whole process to segfault (without any chance to recover from this "problem" by the hashcat process).
The second problem, is your syntax problem... you can't really use -a 0 (which is the default attack type, so even without specifying -a 0, it defaults to -a 0) without specifying a dictionary file, because: a dictionary attack always works with dictionaries (you could just use example.dict as a dictionary as a test, specify the dictionary after the hash file)
We saw this problem a couple of times in the past where it seems that hashcat crashes on the "Initializing" line, but it was always the driver that had some problem.
I would highly suggest to use this: https://hashcat.net/faq/wrongdriver to cleanly re-install the AMD driver.
In theory, you could later (after cleanly re-installing the driver) test with independent tools like clinfo.exe (just google.it).
The output of clinfo (and error messages or crashes of it) would also proof that it's not really hashcat crashing, but the driver forces the whole process to segfault (without any chance to recover from this "problem" by the hashcat process).
The second problem, is your syntax problem... you can't really use -a 0 (which is the default attack type, so even without specifying -a 0, it defaults to -a 0) without specifying a dictionary file, because: a dictionary attack always works with dictionaries (you could just use example.dict as a dictionary as a test, specify the dictionary after the hash file)