PC Drivers & Software

[zaleqer23]

So I was looking into why my C drive has so much random space taken up, and I found 'sdkusage.csv' inside C:\ProgramData\AMD\PPC to be taking up 30.4GB. I can't find anything about this file anywhere, which I find odd. So, I decided to ask here. The only posts I've seen are about the 'metrics.csv' file, which is also in the folder, but for me it's only 14.7MB. Can I remove this file? Should reinstall drivers after? I got 6950 XT and 23.12.1 drivers version.

[FunkZ]

SDK is software development kit - at one point did you have this installed? Being a CSV (comma separated value) it's likely a log file. Did you try opening it?

The Adrenalin software also has a built-in metric logging option that saves those files in CSV format, but defaults to C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\AMD\CN

[zaleqer23]

Would the metric logging even persist through system restarts? When I finish logging inside Adrenaline > Performance > Metrics > Start Logging the popup says "Performance logs saved" and it points to "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\AMD\CN" you mentioned. I'm not sure if it's related to performance logging at least not the one we can toggle in the adrenaline. As for opening I tried using command prompt "type C:\ProgramData\AMD\PPC\sdkusage.csv | more" and the lines of the file look like this:

There's a wall of text and they are 3 .exe files asrisp.exe, msiafterburner.exe and fancontrol.exe. The asrisp.exe I would guess is some asrock related .exe, the other 2 I know and use. Logs inside the file are mostly for fancontrol. 

[FunkZ]

Not sure whatever is generating that file would persist after a restart, maybe check those applications and see if there is some toggle option that got left on? The output definitely looks like a runaway log file.

[goodplay]

I believe those are from the 'amd user experience program', you can delete the PPC folder or files you don't want in it.

[nono71x]

Same for me! This is new, at least for a few months.... I have already deleted "sdkusage" but it's starting again. So I have always deactivated the sharing of user data, for the rest I checked and I don't see what else I can deactivate. In this sdkusage file I see lots of keys, it's a log. I would like to know how to deactivate it? For real, thanks, because C: space is not unlimited

[UbergamR]

I too have the groving sdkusage.csv file problem, if anyone knows the answer to it i would be grateful

[vookhan]

Bump

[Qoojo]

It might be related to performance monitoring in adrenaline. I do not use any of that and i do not even have the PPC directory. Not sure if it happens by default or if you have "log to file" somehow turned on.

[Omgnoway]

yeah that doesn't look right, mine is only 31.2 kb in size

[zaleqer23 · Accepted solution]

UPDATE

I deleted the file long time ago, new one wasn't created and all is fine, so i would say just delete it if it's too big. Maybe a driver reinstall/update for good measure too.