hashcat doesn't work properly

[howdy_my_friend]

TBH, I am new to these stuff, so if I made any dumb thing, please point it directly.

After I complete all the prepare works to run the command

Code:

"E:\Program Files\hashcat-6.2.6\hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --increment-max=16

The hashcat just exited without any warn or error like the image above.

Then I run

Code:

"E:\Program Files\hashcat-6.2.6\hashcat.exe" -b -d 1,2

and find this out

Code:

E:\Program Files\hashcat-6.2.6>"E:\Program Files\hashcat-6.2.6\hashcat.exe" -b -d 1,2 hashcat (v6.2.6) starting in benchmark mode Benchmarking uses hand-optimized kernel code by default. You can use it in your cracking session by setting the -O option. Note: Using optimized kernel code limits the maximum supported password length. To disable the optimized kernel code in benchmark mode, use the -w option. The device #2 specifically listed was skipped because it is an alias of device #1 nvmlDeviceGetFanSpeed(): Not Supported CUDA API (CUDA 12.9) ==================== * Device #1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, 11047/12281 MB, 58MCU OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 CUDA 12.9.40) - Platform #1 [NVIDIA Corporation] ======================================================================= * Device #2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, skipped OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 D3D12 Implementation) - Platform #2 [Microsoft] ====================================================================== * Device #3: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, skipped * Device #4: Microsoft Basic Render Driver, skipped OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 WINDOWS) - Platform #3 [Intel(R) Corporation] ==================================================================== * Device #5: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13980HX, skipped Benchmark relevant options: =========================== * --backend-devices=1,2 * --optimized-kernel-enable ------------------- * Hash-Mode 0 (MD5) ------------------- nvrtcCompileProgram(): NVRTC_ERROR_INVALID_OPTION nvrtc: error: invalid value for --gpu-architecture (-arch) * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. ... * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. Started: Mon Jun 02 02:01:47 2025 Stopped: Mon Jun 02 02:02:06 2025

What's the problem with my OpenCL or CUDA runtime?
Someone please help me, thanks.

[penguinkeeper]

Yeah, it's a really common (and currently unfixable) OpenCL issue. The current only real "fix" is to just do --backend-ignore-opencl

[penguinkeeper]

It may be fixed. Please try the latest beta from here:
https://hashcat.net/beta/

Please do let me know if it solves your problem, without having to use --backend-ignore-opencl

[howdy_my_friend]

It may be fixed. Please try the latest beta from here:
https://hashcat.net/beta/

Please do let me know if it solves your problem, without having to use --backend-ignore-opencl

Unfortunately,  argument --backend-ignore-opencl do not fix any problem of OpenCL compiling, even in the beta version of hashcat.
Instead, it gives me response like this

Code:

C:\Users\melon_444>cd /d "E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6" E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --increment-max=16 hashcat (v6.2.6-936-g73d817e74+) starting nvmlDeviceGetFanSpeed(): Not Supported CUDA API (CUDA 12.9) ==================== * Device #01: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, 11047/12281 MB, 58MCU OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 CUDA 12.9.40) - Platform #1 [NVIDIA Corporation] ======================================================================= * Device #02: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, skipped OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 D3D12 Implementation) - Platform #2 [Microsoft] ====================================================================== * Device #03: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, 11933/11997 MB (1024 MB allocatable), 1MCU * Device #04: Microsoft Basic Render Driver, skipped OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 WINDOWS) - Platform #3 [Intel(R) Corporation] ==================================================================== * Device #05: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13980HX, skipped Minimum password length supported by kernel: 0 Maximum password length supported by kernel: 256 Hashes: 1 digests; 1 unique digests, 1 unique salts Bitmaps: 16 bits, 65536 entries, 0x0000ffff mask, 262144 bytes, 5/13 rotates Optimizers applied: * Zero-Byte * Early-Skip * Not-Salted * Not-Iterated * Single-Hash * Single-Salt * Brute-Force * Raw-Hash ATTENTION! Pure (unoptimized) backend kernels selected. Pure kernels can crack longer passwords, but drastically reduce performance. If you want to switch to optimized kernels, append -O to your commandline. See the above message to find out about the exact limits. Watchdog: Temperature abort trigger set to 90c nvrtcCompileProgram(): NVRTC_ERROR_INVALID_OPTION nvrtc: error: invalid value for --gpu-architecture (-arch) * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. Started: Mon Jun 02 18:50:17 2025 Stopped: Mon Jun 02 18:50:21 2025 E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --incr -Ont-max=16 hashcat (v6.2.6-936-g73d817e74+) starting nvmlDeviceGetFanSpeed(): Not Supported CUDA API (CUDA 12.9) ==================== * Device #01: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, 11047/12281 MB, 58MCU OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 CUDA 12.9.40) - Platform #1 [NVIDIA Corporation] ======================================================================= * Device #02: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, skipped OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 D3D12 Implementation) - Platform #2 [Microsoft] ====================================================================== * Device #03: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, 11933/11997 MB (1024 MB allocatable), 1MCU * Device #04: Microsoft Basic Render Driver, skipped OpenCL API (OpenCL 3.0 WINDOWS) - Platform #3 [Intel(R) Corporation] ==================================================================== * Device #05: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13980HX, skipped Minimum password length supported by kernel: 0 Maximum password length supported by kernel: 55 Hashes: 1 digests; 1 unique digests, 1 unique salts Bitmaps: 16 bits, 65536 entries, 0x0000ffff mask, 262144 bytes, 5/13 rotates Optimizers applied: * Optimized-Kernel * Zero-Byte * Precompute-Init * Meet-In-The-Middle * Early-Skip * Not-Salted * Not-Iterated * Single-Hash * Single-Salt * Brute-Force * Raw-Hash Watchdog: Temperature abort trigger set to 90c nvrtcCompileProgram(): NVRTC_ERROR_INVALID_OPTION nvrtc: error: invalid value for --gpu-architecture (-arch) * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. Started: Mon Jun 02 18:50:37 2025 Stopped: Mon Jun 02 18:50:39 2025 E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --incre --backend-ignore-opencl hashcat (v6.2.6-936-g73d817e74+) starting nvmlDeviceGetFanSpeed(): Not Supported CUDA API (CUDA 12.9) ==================== * Device #01: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, 11047/12281 MB, 58MCU Minimum password length supported by kernel: 0 Maximum password length supported by kernel: 256 Hashes: 1 digests; 1 unique digests, 1 unique salts Bitmaps: 16 bits, 65536 entries, 0x0000ffff mask, 262144 bytes, 5/13 rotates Optimizers applied: * Zero-Byte * Early-Skip * Not-Salted * Not-Iterated * Single-Hash * Single-Salt * Brute-Force * Raw-Hash ATTENTION! Pure (unoptimized) backend kernels selected. Pure kernels can crack longer passwords, but drastically reduce performance. If you want to switch to optimized kernels, append -O to your commandline. See the above message to find out about the exact limits. Watchdog: Temperature abort trigger set to 90c nvrtcCompileProgram(): NVRTC_ERROR_INVALID_OPTION nvrtc: error: invalid value for --gpu-architecture (-arch) * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. Started: Mon Jun 02 18:51:11 2025 Stopped: Mon Jun 02 18:51:15 2025 E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --increment-max=16  --backend-i -Ore-opencl hashcat (v6.2.6-936-g73d817e74+) starting nvmlDeviceGetFanSpeed(): Not Supported CUDA API (CUDA 12.9) ==================== * Device #01: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU, 11047/12281 MB, 58MCU Minimum password length supported by kernel: 0 Maximum password length supported by kernel: 55 Hashes: 1 digests; 1 unique digests, 1 unique salts Bitmaps: 16 bits, 65536 entries, 0x0000ffff mask, 262144 bytes, 5/13 rotates Optimizers applied: * Optimized-Kernel * Zero-Byte * Precompute-Init * Meet-In-The-Middle * Early-Skip * Not-Salted * Not-Iterated * Single-Hash * Single-Salt * Brute-Force * Raw-Hash Watchdog: Temperature abort trigger set to 90c nvrtcCompileProgram(): NVRTC_ERROR_INVALID_OPTION nvrtc: error: invalid value for --gpu-architecture (-arch) * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. * Device #1: Kernel ./OpenCL/shared.cl build failed. Started: Mon Jun 02 18:51:25 2025 Stopped: Mon Jun 02 18:51:27 2025 E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>

(I tried to follow the instruction of hashcat but it's useless)

Because of display glich of windows, I actually typed these commands:

Code:

E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>cd /d "E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6" E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --increment-max=16 E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --increment-max=16 -O E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --increment-max=16 --backend-ignore-opencl E:\Program Files\beta-hashcat\hashcat-6.2.6>"hashcat.exe" -m 0 -a 3 hash.txt ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d --increment --increment-min=6 --increment-max=16 --backend-ignore-opencl -O

Is there any problems on the version of CUDA?

[penguinkeeper]

Ah! The beta did get further. That error you're seeing is very common, it's just because your driver and CUDA version are mis-matched. Double check and make sure that both are the latest versions and it should be okay. You may have to restart

[howdy_my_friend]

Ah! The beta did get further. That error you're seeing is very common, it's just because your driver and CUDA version are mis-matched. Double check and make sure that both are the latest versions and it should be okay. You may have to restart

Thank for your assistant, I figured out that I mis-configured the environment varable, so now it can work correctly