If your AMD drivers are constantly writing to disk, a user has developed an open source solution

Recently AMD has acknowledged a bug in which the latest drivers for your cards AMD Radeonperform constant writes to the drive SSDwith the consequent wear and tear that this can entail. AMD has acknowledged the bug, but has also indicated that users will have to wait for version 22.11.1 for a solution, although this does not happen to all computers with this latest version of the drivers. However, if you have this problem, a community user has created a temporary solution.

Radeon-atieclxx-SSD-Fix, the temporary solution for constant writes on SSD

The tool has been published on the ComputerBase forums, and has been developed by Necandi under an open source license. Is called Radeon-atieclxx-SSD-Fixand fixes this annoying error of continuous background writes. Although some alternatives had already been proposed, such as disabling the utility AMD External Eventsthis solution attempts to remove the writes without having to do without it.

The reported writings include between 0.3 and 5 MB/swhich can mean several GB written to the SSD over a few hours. In addition to the loss of performance caused by continuous writing for other tasks that need to read or write data to the drive.

AMD bug can generate up to 56 GB of writes per day

To stop writing on the SSD disk, the developer has found another solution, the module atieclxx.exe It is repeatedly copied from the driver directory to the Windows system profile. The file size is 660 KB and runs once per second, which can generate up to 56 GB of data per day. Thanks to Windows permissions, the user prevents repeated copies from being overwritten, avoiding this constant writing to the disk, and without stopping the activity of the AMD External Events utility.

The tool checks if the computer is affected and remains active until drivers are installed to solve it.

This utility has more functions, for example, it is applied only if the system is affected by this failure, after 3 minutes it checks the activity in case it repeats itself again and subsequently does another check every 30 minutes. The fix will be removed when AMD updates the drivers, but as long as these drivers manage to solve the problem, in the meantime it will remain active even if they are updated.

If you are interested in trying it, you can download the source code from GitHuband is only available in German.