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How to Allocate More Memory?

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How to Allocate More Memory?
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12-22-2016, 06:55 PM (This post was last modified: 12-22-2016, 06:58 PM by cityscab.)
Hashcat is only using 2 GB of my video cards memory but has 8.
Is there a way to get Hashcat to use more memory?
Would I notice any improvements in Hashcats performance if it did?
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12-25-2016, 02:15 PM
The OpenCL runtime limits hashcat to use only 1/4 of the total memory, but for memory intense algorithms like scrypt it allocates four blocks to workaround that problem. For other algorithms it doesn't do any performance increase.
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