08-29-2021, 10:38 PM
There are some fundamental structural changes in HIP 4.4. These changes force us to support either the new HIP API or the old HIP API. Hashcat v6.2.4 is now rewritten to work with Hashcat as soon as AMD releases the new HIP API. You could say you could have waited for support for the new API until AMD really released it, but that only works if you have enough developers, but I work on this backend alone. Long story short, at the time of writing there's no way for end users to make use of the HIP API. Until they update to the new backend you need to stick to OpenCL backend.