AMD has acknowledged that a bug in its current Adrenalin Radeon graphics drivers is causing systems to run continuous SSD write activity, even when the system is running idle. In light of that, the company has promised a fix with the upcoming Adrenalin 26.11.1 driver update.
The Adrenalin Radeon drivers in question are version 26.10.1 and 26.10.2, and the problem reportedly involves a process within the AMD External Events Utility, aptly called the External Events Client Module, or atieclxx.exe. According to users, the process continuously writes data on to the system drive at rates ranging from 0.3MB/s to 1.5MB/s, with one user reaching up to 5MB/s.
atieclxx.exe is constantly writing data to SSDs, even when idle.
