can't get hashcat working!! ubuntu 16.04 w/ amd 7970s
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it's a pretty old GPU already. Rocm doesn't seem to support it at all: see https://rocm.github.io/hardware.html . It seems that currencty only some new cards are supported (like the RX460, RX470, RX480 and Fury), all of them relatively modern cards compared to yours.

CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY often has something to do with your RAM (not VRAM), but I would really recommend to investigate all options like which driver supports these old GPUs etc and also try different hashcat versions. Do you have enough RAM installed (at least the same amount of the sum of all VRAM)?
The best thing to do would probably to also get a much more modern GPU and don't worry about old drivers or hashcat versions etc anymore.

You could also try to test the same setup with windows because it seems that the windows drivers try to keep being compatible with old GPUs much longer than the official ubuntu/linux drivers.
I wouldn't waste any time if you see that the GPUs are not officially supported by the driver you are trying, because they probably don't work if not supported.
A different problem could be that newer hashcat versions also check that you use a recent driver to avoid running into old driver/OpenCL bugs etc. Therefore, you might also need to download and run old hashcat versions (that's very bad!) just because your GPUs are way too old.


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RE: can't get hashcat working!! ubuntu 16.04 w/ amd 7970s - by philsmd - 07-28-2018, 04:08 PM