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The AMD Driver Thread

Lee Charles said:
What's the best thing to do? rollback the drivers?
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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'.
 
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

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

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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.
 
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.
 
Look at Resource Monitor rather than Task Manager when you're looking at disk reads n writes. It's got better per process filtering and the filter persists across views so you can track things more easily.
 
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Steampunk said:
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.
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a friend in KMD identified this issue a while back and fixed it with urgency; he understood the impact it can have. honestly i think it warrants a hotfix but it's gated by other work. we're still trying to push to get this out asap.

the reason it's intermittent in the field is that, if the external events utility component is unable to locate the pcie filter driver, it'll keep attempting to install one, though it can't since that part has been removed back in april, given that Win10 22H2 (19045) and all versions of win11 ship their own filter driver with the OS, and our version from 2020 was occasionally forced installed, leading to other issues / ux deficits, like getting a dialog on boot on win10 that a system hardware change has occurred, requiring a restart (coinciding with SAM being disabled)

what i'm struggling to understand right now is why there are instances of EEU not being able to find the filter driver. SAM / ReBAR would be inoperable without it. I'm wondering if the old AMD filter driver was present on these impacted systems, though this shouldn't have even been a possibility on win11 at all :s
 
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AMD_Vik said:
a friend in KMD identified this issue a while back and fixed it with urgency; he understood the impact it can have. honestly i think it warrants a hotfix but it's gated by other work. we're still trying to push to get this out asap.

the reason it's intermittent in the field is that, if the external events utility component is unable to locate the pcie filter driver, it'll keep attempting to install one, though it can't since that part has been removed back in april, given that Win10 22H2 (19045) and all versions of win11 ship their own filter driver with the OS, and our version from 2020 was occasionally forced installed, leading to other issues / ux deficits, like getting a dialog on boot on win10 that a system hardware change has occurred, requiring a restart (coinciding with SAM being disabled)

what i'm struggling to understand right now is why there are instances of EEU not being able to find the filter driver. SAM / ReBAR would be inoperable without it. I'm wondering if the old AMD filter driver was present on these impacted systems, though this shouldn't have even been a possibility on win11 at all :s
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Someone doing an upgrade from Windows 10 where it exists, having installed it before April, or installing it manually? Mine was a clean Windows 11 install with new hardware this time last year, and doesn't seem to have the problem.
 
TrojanWhore said:
I'm still on W10 22H2, will check later but can't recall seeing any 'hardware change' notifications.

Is it only the 26.10.x drivers that are affected?
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I'm glad for you! i would get these all the time on win10 with my nv21 and 48. That particular behaviour has been present for years, and should've been fixed with the outright removal of the AMD pcie filter driver back in april. I'd never see that on 11.
 
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