Has anyone ever Disabled AMD External Events Utility from Services

Eastcoasthandle

Has anyone ever went into your OS's 'Services' and set AMD External Events Utility from Automatic and Start to Manual and Stop?

PurpleFish · 03-08-2011, 05:06 | posts: 682 | Location: Randolph NY USA

No Why?

eMbAh · 03-08-2011, 05:42 | posts: 86

yes I have, why?

PurpleFish · 03-08-2011, 05:52 | posts: 682 | Location: Randolph NY USA

O.K. what is it\what does it do?

k1net1cs · 03-08-2011, 07:07 | posts: 3,316

Just another way to avoid Catalyst's innate ability to cause in-game stutters and/or the 99% GPU bug IIRC...but CMIIW...

JLT · 03-08-2011, 07:26 | posts: 7

I do, each install/update. If I don't, any changes I make in CCC to the default video settings like de-noise, de-blocking,etc... tend to get reverted on crashes/reboots. Those are settings I don't get offered on a vanilla install only on modded drivers. I also turn off dynamic contrast, gives me ugly vertical lines on videos.

juzz · 03-08-2011, 11:53 | posts: 26

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Originally Posted by PurpleFish

O.K. what is it\what does it do?

AFAIK it is for ATI hotkeys. Unless you use hotkeys it's completely useless. Also as a bonus disabling it may even fix some errors.

EDIT: Been disabling it since "Ati Hotkey Poller" times

Phroster · 03-08-2011, 14:19 | posts: 182

Also have this turned off, but never noticed any real difference.

Eastcoasthandle · 03-08-2011, 16:16 | posts: 1,511

Anyone else disables this service?

Death_Lord · 03-08-2011, 16:29 | posts: 681 | Location: Spain

Me too. and I also like to bake it on a oven and eat it with chilli sauce

but yeah, i keep it disabled because I dont like useless stuff running in the background.

death_samurai · 03-09-2011, 02:10 | posts: 3,430 | Location: SG

If you disable it will there be any problems when uninstalling and reinstalling new drivers?

Eastcoasthandle · 03-09-2011, 02:40 | posts: 1,511

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Originally Posted by death_samurai

If you disable it will there be any problems when uninstalling and reinstalling new drivers?

I've seen wired issues with it disabled and it can fill up your event viewer with errors.

It was said that the service was for disabling hotkey poller but according to this post that's not correct.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...40&postcount=4

death_samurai · 03-09-2011, 03:31 | posts: 3,430 | Location: SG

I didn't disable mine just changed it from automatic to manual start up.

The last thing i would want is installation errors when uninstalling old drivers and installing new ones.

Mineria · 03-09-2011, 07:48 | posts: 2,895 | Location: Denmark

It's only for hotkeys bound with ccc/driver, so if you don't use that feature it's complete safe to disable the service.

Eastcoasthandle · 03-09-2011, 16:10 | posts: 1,511

Hotkeys still works if you disable it. Therefore, there is more involved to that service then that.

Mineria · *Last edited by Mineria; 03-09-2011 at 16:57.*

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Originally Posted by Eastcoasthandle

Hotkeys still works if you disable it. Therefore, there is more involved to that service then that.

Not as I know, only getting some resources free by disabling it, if you get any issues... enable it again?

EDIT: Seems that it also is responsible for some event logging, people solved display connection problems by disabling the service and using manual detection via CCC.

Eastcoasthandle · 03-09-2011, 19:19 | posts: 1,511

Mineria,

The information about how that service effects HotKeys is not accurate. I'm still able to use my hotkeys with AMD External Events Utility service disabled. And I noticed no decrease in event logging with it disabled. However, I did notice error messages with it disabled.

Black_ice_Spain · 03-09-2011, 19:23 | posts: 4,153 | Location: Spain

Ive always disabled those services and no failure (also, what the **** is that new one, FUEL?)

X7007 · **Memory**: 8GB G.Skill 5-5-5-15 1066

If you disable it the clock of the card wont go back to idle mode after you back from a game.

Eastcoasthandle · 03-10-2011, 04:17 | posts: 1,511

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Originally Posted by X7007

If you disable it the clock of the card wont go back to idle mode after you back from a game.

Then how are some claiming they disable it and not notice that they don't have 2D clocks?

RoadKillNL · 03-10-2011, 10:55 | posts: 2,542 | Location: The Netherlands

Was gonna keep an eye on the 99% Load Bug but havn't been able to reproduce it yet ever since i disabled this Events Utility...

I would normaly get it during Desktop Idle, Watching YouTube or after some time during a Game.

Maybe this thing is related to it all.