The AMD Driver Thread

[MyBrainz]

What's the best thing to do? rollback the drivers?

I guess you make your own judgement by what is said in the article..

'Although these figures may appear relatively low, continuous activity can accumulate over time. At 5 MB/s, the process would generate approximately 432GB of writes per day, or nearly 13TB per month'.

 

[MyBrainz]

A couple of solutions on Reddit, I have done the first one here and see it has pretty much stopped when monitoring with HWinfo64.

Solutions​

Some users have since identified two possible workarounds.

Workaround 1: Disable AMD External Events Utility

1. Press Win + R, type services.msc and press Enter.
2. Find AMD External Events Utility.
3. Open its properties, stop the service and change its Startup type to Disabled.

This stops the excessive disk activity caused by atieclxx.exe.

Workaround 2: Disable Resizable BAR (ReBAR)​

Another user discovered that disabling ReBAR stopped the excessive disk writes. This might be a better alternative if you want to keep AMD External Events Utility enabled, although disabling ReBAR can carry other issues.

Reddit

www.reddit.com

 

[Kurgen]

ive posted in the pubg thread as well , but anyone had issues with pugb on rx9070.. most rounds will black screen and reboot the pc . no issue on any other game. only started after a big pubg update.. tried re-installing

 

[Firegod]

Is this only certain cards, I'm not seeing this on mine.

 

[pastymuncher]

Not on mine either, atieclxx.exe isn't even showing in preformance monitor.

 

[ljt]

It is writing at around 0.7mb constantly on mine (Win 11 9070XT)

 

[Steampunk]

Nothing on mine either. Must be affecting some people, but not everyone. If AMD have a fix coming out, they must have identified it and know what is causing it. I'm surprised they are not issuing an emergency hotfix, but I guess they will just tell people to revert back to older drivers.

 

[freddie64]

Not on mine either, atieclxx.exe isn't even showing in preformance monitor.

Same for me, but don't know if i should disable it just in case though.

EDIT

Just checked Task Manager and getting the same result as ljt.

 

[jklc]

I noticed it was doing it on my machine too after seeing the stories about it. I don't leave my PC on all day so hopefully the thrashing of the SSD is limited. Disabling the external events service thing fixed it for now.

 

[TheSwede]

Same for me, but don't know if i should disable it just in case though.

EDIT

Just checked Task Manager and getting the same result as ljt.

Thanks for posting this, I checked mine and it showing this.

So I am guessing (hoping) that I am fine ?