AMD User Experience Proxy and handle leaks

high handles in AUEPMaster
high handles in AUEPMaster

This is an odd fellow here. As you can see in the image below, AUEPMaster has 157k handles. Yesterday it had over 1 million but I failed to capture a screenshot before reboot. This hasn’t impacted game performance as far as I can tell, just an annoyance. Wondering if it’s actually working as intended, does it have a security hole, etc…

high handles in AUEPMaster
high handles in AUEPMaster

 

I looked in Process Explorer, as one might do, to see what handles AUEPMaster wanted, assuming it was linking to processes (games on my gaming machine) and not letting things go. However, Zombiefinder didn’t flag a high amount of zombies, so that’s not it. It’s a little weird. AEUPMaster really likes this registery key HKLM\Software\AMD\PPC.

 

handles being opened in AMD\PPC

 

It’s a slow news day, this is probably broken in some manner, I filed a bug in AMD’s driver suite maybe they can fix it someday.

5 comments

  1. I’d just turn that junk off.

    AMD Software Adrenaline Edition > Settings > Preferences > At the bottom is “AMD User Experience Program” > Junk that junk off

  2. Whoa, handle leaks and zombie processes? Sounds like my PC has a ghost in the machine AND a hoarder! 😂 But seriously, that registry key HKLMSoftwareAMDPPC is like that one friend who loves to linger, right? Good to know someones flagging this AMD User Experience Program junk. Maybe its time to tell that registry key to chill out and turn that junk off! Thanks for the PSA – now my computer cant claim it didnt see the warning! 😉basketball stars unblocked

  3. This registry key business is more confusing than a Windows update rollback. Wonder if AMD’s User Experience Program is secretly planning world domination via handle leaks? Or maybe it just really, *really* likes that key. Either way, turning that junk off sounds like the best plan ever. Can’t wait to see if AMD fixes this or just adds more registry keys to appreciate. Keep the PSA’s coming!vòng quay online

  4. This registry key business sounds about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. AMD really going full Big Brother on the user experience front? I say turn that junk off and save us all from potential zombie processes and a boatload of disk flush events. Who needs a proxy watching your every move, anyway? Lets hope AMD fixes this before it turns into another PSA situation. Keep it simple, folks—no more junk in my system, thanks!

  5. Haha, a slow news day indeed! Glad someones on the case of the mysterious HKLM key. I mean, who has time to worry about zombie processes when youve got a registry key thats clearly broken in some manner? AMD, take my bug report and go fix it before the User Experience Program starts reporting on the brokenness of its own brokenness! 😉act-two ai

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