ATI 2018 Install Causing Random Application Hang
I used Acronis a few years ago and have license for ATI 2017 and 2018. I had recently decided to do daily backups and Macrium Reflect Free would not allow me to do incremental backups. I had just been doing periodic full backups prior to this time. I use a cloud file storage service for all my files but I have a growing virtual environment on Oracle VirtualBox that I wanted to backup regularly.
In any event I decided to install ATI 2018 on my system since I had already purchased that a couple of years ago. I installed the application and set everything up and all was working fine with the backups. The problems with system stability started immediately after I installed ATI 2018 (Update 5) on my system. I do a lot of video editing as well and that is where I noticed it first. Video editing application would hang while I was editing video and would stay that way for 5-10 minutes. It would eventually become responsive again if I waited long enough. At first I thought this was my video editing application but then Chromium Edge started locking up on me as well the same exact way. I uninstalled ATI 2018 and the problems have gone away completely. There is nothing wrong with my system and it was working fine before and after so it is obviously ATI 2018 that caused these problems.
I could not find any useful information on how to resolve these issues so I have reinstalled Macrium Reflect with a trial version for 30 days which will allow me to do my daily incremental backups. I always leave the active protection disabled and prevent the tray icon from starting when I start my system.
Just posting here because I am curious as to why this is happening. This software made my system pretty much unusable after it was installed. Anyone have any clue as to the cause?
TIA


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