rules not working and unable to test

[hasher21u]

same issue as poster here: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-9763-post-51233.html

Code:

hashcat -b

works fine, at least starts ok. but

Code:

.\hashcat.exe -r .\test.txt --stdout .\wordlists\dict.txt

doesnt

any ideas? i updated cuda and nvidia drivers to latest as well and no change

[undeath]

There have been a few reports of --stdout hanging recently. in the past, many people with that problem had a broken Intel OpenCL driver, often a leftover from an older version. Maybe there's a recent version that causes this problem. For reference, do you have an Intel OpenCL driver installed and if yes, which version?

[hasher21u]

i am not sure if i do. how do i check? i try to do the cracking via cuda when i can