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Here's Your Fix For AMD's Radeon Driver Bug That's Punishing SSDs

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If you're a hardware enthusiast, you probably read earlier this week (including on this very website) about an issue affecting AMD's graphics cards that caused the firm's drivers to perform excess writes to the disk near-constantly. Well, AMD is happy to report that the AMD Adrenalin 26.11.1 driver package resolves this issue entirely, as well as the year-old problem where moving windows around also caused disk writes for some reason.

AMD marks this driver as "Optional", and the reason is because most people aren't affected by the bug. Investigators on Reddit pieced together that it was being caused by the drivers logging the absence of certain driver files that were removed after the 26.3.1 driver. If your Radeon machine has been up and running since March, you would still have those files in place and thus would not be affected. It apparently also didn't affect graphics cards from ...

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