There's a solution to the AMD Radeon driver's excessive SSD writes! An expert has released an open-source fix tool

According to Fast Technology on November 12, the bug causing the AMD Radeon driver to excessively write to the SSD in the background has finally found a "community workaround." Before AMD's official fix patch was released, community developer NecanDiTool launched an open-source tool called Radeon-atieclxx-SSD-Fix, which can prevent abnormal writes to solid-state drives without shutting down AMD's critical services.

Previously, many Radeon users discovered that the background process atieclxx.exe would continuously write data when the system was idle, with the speed fluctuating between 0.3 MB/s and 5 MB/s, and theoretically reaching up to 432 GB per day.

This process is part of the AMD External Events Utility, which is responsible for basic functions such as display detection, FreeSync, and hotkeys. Therefore, users are unwilling to sacrifice these core experiences for the sake of a bug.

NecanDiTool analyzed the root cause of the problem: atieclxx.exe copies itself from the AMD driver directory to the Windows system configuration folder every second, with a file size of approximately 660 KB. Based on the frequency of copying per second, approximately 56 GB of additional writes will be generated each day. Long-term operation will cause substantial wear on the SSD's lifespan.

NecanDiTool's fix logic is extremely ingenious. Instead of abruptly stopping the service, it leverages the Windows file permissions mechanism to prevent the SYSTEM account from repeatedly overwriting the file. As a result, abnormal writes are precisely blocked, while features such as FreeSync, frame synchronization, and Radeon hotkeys remain completely unaffected.

The tool also automatically detects whether the user's system has this issue and estimates the amount of additional writes that have already occurred. After installation, it creates a scheduled task to reapply protection after system startup and every 30 minutes to ensure that it remains effective after driver updates.

It should be noted that this is an unofficial tool that requires administrator privileges to modify file permissions, and its effectiveness and compatibility have not been independently verified. AMD has previously acknowledged the bug and plans to provide an official fix in the Adrenalin 26.11.1 driver.

Users who can't wait for the official patch can try this tool, but they do so at their own risk. Users who prefer a more reliable solution may want to wait patiently for AMD's official fix.

Source: MyDrivers (Fast Technology). Content is presented with source attribution. Read the original report.