A bug in the latest AMD Radeon drivers causes constant writing to the SSD disk

Not only NVIDIA introduces errors in the drivers of its graphics cards, sometimes other manufacturers also add errors for which they have to find a solution soon. This is what has happened with the latest drivers amdthe so-called AMD Radeon Software Adrenalindespite the fact that AMD has already released a version to correct multiple bugs. But it has not been enough to eliminate one of the most annoying, which makes continuous writes to your SSD.

AMD drivers cause continuous writes to SSDs

Drivers add an error in the AMD events module atieclxx.exea process that manages display-related functions and software hotkeys for AMD drivers. Users have reported that this process is continually writing data to the hard drive or SSD, at speeds between 0.3 and 1.5 MB/salthough reaching some peaks of 5 MB/s.

Although it seems little, 5 MB/s after a whole day generates more than 430 GB of dataat 1.5 MB/s the figure is almost 130GB. An impact big enough for devices that run all day. The bug is present in the drivers 26.10.1 and 26.10.2and the solution is expected to arrive in the next version 26.11.1although at the moment there is no date for the release of this future version.

AMD recognizes the failure and prepares a solution in its next drivers

The failure has been recognized by AMD, which has been in charge of citing this future update. The bug does not seem to be affecting all systems with Radeon graphics, you can check it in the windows resource monitor and check the writing activity of your PC in the Disk tab. If your computer is affected you can disable the utility AMD External Events or also deactivating Resizable BAR directly from the BIOS.

NVIDIA launches Hotfix drivers to solve these problems, AMD says it will do so with a new version, but if you are affected it is better to eliminate this disk writing so as not to prematurely age your device. SSD.