Overview
- Users reported in early November that the AMD External Events Utility was performing sustained background writes to system drives, a behavior that can measurably increase SSD wear over weeks or months.
- AMD responded with an interim, optional Adrenalin Edition 26.11.1 driver published between November 12 and 13 that the company says fixes excessive system‑drive writes at idle and during window moves and resizes for Radeon RX 7000‑series and newer GPUs.
- The 26.11.1 build is non‑WHQL and must be downloaded and installed manually because it will not appear as an automatic update in the Adrenalin app.
- AMD’s release notes list multiple unrelated known issues, including intermittent crashes, driver timeouts and visual artifacts, so installing the interim driver requires users to balance reducing SSD writes against new or lingering instabilities.
- Observers should watch whether reports emerge of RX 6000‑series impact and whether AMD folds the write fix into the next WHQL‑signed driver, since the company says the interim patch will be merged into a future certified release.