Hashcat starts then immediately stops
#1
Hi

When I try and run hashcat, it says starting and then immediately returns to the command prompt.

D:\Tools\HashCat>hashcat -m 13711 -a 3 hash.tc testmask.hcmask
hashcat (v6.2.6) starting


D:\Tools\HashCat>

Not sure what to do. Please help.
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#2
please show output of hashcat -I
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#3
Hi

Same thing happens. Hashcat starts then immediately stops. I am using a freshly downloaded copy of hashcat.

D:\Tools\HashCat>hashcat -I
hashcat (v6.2.6) starting in backend information mode


D:\Tools\HashCat>

Thanks
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#4
please try latest beta from 

https://hashcat.net/beta/

what kind of pc do you have? what kind of gpu? did you installed the basic requirements? https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
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#5
Hi

D:\Tools\HashCat>nvidia-smi
Fri Mar 21 19:44:18 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 572.70                Driver Version: 572.70        CUDA Version: 12.8    |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                  Driver-Model | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |          Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                        |                        |              MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|  0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060      WDDM  |  00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 34%  43C    P0            N/A  /  115W |    776MiB /  8188MiB |      1%      Default |
|                                        |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
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#6
did you tried the last beta? or when using linux just compile latest git-version, and then try hashcat -I

if there is still no output, sry, no idea
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