Update AMD Drivers to Prevent Radeon Graphics Cards From Wearing Out SSDs

AMD has released a fix for a Radeon driver bug that could cause an SSD to record up to approximately 430 GB of extra data per day, accelerating wear on the drive.

Players began reporting on November 8 that the AMD Radeon Adrenalin software package was continuously writing data to SSDs while their computers were idle. Technology publications estimated that the extra writes could reach approximately 430 GB per day. The problem comes amid a sharp rise in SSD prices.

AMD confirmed the bug in Adrenalin drivers for RX 7000 series graphics cards and newer. The software continuously accesses the SSD, accelerating wear on the drive.

The company recommends that Radeon graphics card owners install the fix as soon as possible. The issue involves Atieclxx.exe (AMD External Events Client Module), a process present in driver versions 26.10 and 26.10.1. The fix is included in the optional 26.11.1 beta driver.

Users with an NVIDIA or Intel graphics card and an AMD processor with integrated graphics are also advised to disable the AMD External Events Utility service through services.msc.

The AMD 26.11.1 beta driver is available to download.

Source: iXBT.games