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AMD has released a fix for the driver bug accused of chewing through SSDs, but you will need to fetch it yourself. Adrenalin Edition 26.11.1 is an optional update, and its release notes say it addresses "excessive writes to the system drive" at idle for Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards and above. Some affected users had reported their SSD health dropping by as much as 1% per month.
There is a wrinkle: the fix's wording covers RX 7000-series and newer, yet some user reports involved RX 6000-series cards, so it is unclear whether a fix for older models is still coming. The optional status also fits AMD's habit of shipping interim fixes between official driver releases, and this one is not entirely polished. AMD lists known issues including crashes and driver timeouts in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, War Thunder and Cyberpunk 2077 with FSR enabled, plus visual corruption on character hair in Phantom Blade Zero on RX 9000-series cards. Those issues match and are fewer than in the previous driver release, with the Phantom Blade Zero hair-corruption bug the exception.
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