“Temporarily stopping AMD External Events Utility through services.msc eliminates the excessive writes” can confirm
*On Windows.
I miss ATI
if it’s any consolation, radeon is still canadeon
consolateon
the realest consolation 😤
Isn’t this the issue where they leave debug logging on by default in a fresh driver install? The fix to which is just an obscure switch in the Adrenalin driver, thus shutting off Window Composition event logging?
And this is why you should never auto update anything.
Manually updating would have installed it just the same.
Well then don’t do that, it’s not a difficult concept to figure out.
Yeah, just don’t update your drivers for two years. Who needs that shit anyway.
Found the Debian user.
(But seriously: aside from security bugfixes, if everything is working there really isn’t a reason to update drivers for two years.)
Edit: especially since this is Windows nonsense that Linux users don’t have to care about to begin with. “Who needs that shit anyway” indeed, LOL!
My comment was meant ironically.
If you use the GPU just as a video out, sure, you probably don’t need most updates, but for gaming (and this is a pcgaming community) you probably want to update regularly, since some games require the latest version or to improve game performance.
I don’t know about Linux, but I know the Nvidia drivers on Windows have had a number of security issues recently.
Bingo.
There you go, problem solved.
the two workarounds explored in that article are to disable ReBAR in your SBIOS, which will net you a marginal perf deficit overall, or to disable EEU, which should generally be fine, but may break things like FreeSync under composed iflip (generally not seen much today)
These are both far from ideal. Hope to have a knowledge base article up soon.
