AMD GPU Driver Bug Is Gradually Wearing Down Your SSD Health - IGN India
AMD has acknowledged an issue with its Radeon GPU drivers that is gradually wearing down the health of users' SSDs due to continuous data writes.
The issue was first spotted by a Reddit user who linked it to the AMD External Events Utility service and its associated processes. According to the user, the service was continuously writing data to their system SSD at around 5MB/s, even when the PC was idle.
User Reactions
The bug has brought AMD's driver reliability back into discussion, with some users questioning how such an issue remained unnoticed for so long.
I am affected by this, what a joke. How did we not notice this until now? A whole year of unnecessary SSD wear.
Decades...it's been decades and they still can't get their drivers right
Current Status
Although the exact AMD Adrenalin version responsible remains unknown, several users have reported experiencing the bug on version 26.10.2. The community has shared temporary workarounds, including disabling Resizable BAR and turning off the AMD External Events Utility service.
An AMD representative has acknowledged the issue and confirmed that it will be addressed in the next GPU driver update. Meanwhile, AMD's upscaling technology FSR 4.1 is expanding to more devices including the Xbox Series X and RDNA 2-based graphics cards.
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