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kornja510
Journeyman III

Any downside to disabling clinfo.exe?

I upgraded my dGPU a couple of days ago to a 6700 XT. Have been using Adrenalin version 22.5.1 - the drivers appear to work fine, and the associated Adrenalin software appears to work fine when it's open.

But I get repeated "clinfo.exe has stopped working" errors when Windows starts, when I open the Adrenalin program, at other seemingly random times. Basically any time the Adrenalin software is calling clinfo.exe. (Same error occurs with 22.11.2, but I was having other issues with those drivers.)

I found someone mentioning a similar problem for an even earlier Adrenalin version, but their only solution was to roll back to an even older version. I tried that, but then ran into other issues (e.g., Adrenalin wouldn't open at all).

It seems the issue is that clinfo is having trouble enumerating my iGPU (Intel UHD Graphics 730). Disabling the iGPU in device manager prevents the error from occurring, but I don't see that as a permanent fix.

I've also found that if I just rename clinfo.exe to something else so that it doesn't get called, I also stop getting the error messages.

Does anyone know what purpose clinfo.exe serves, and if disabling it will cause any other problems? So far everything seems to be working just fine with it disabled.

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