MSI Afterburner is an app used worldwide for monitoring, overclocking and undervolting graphics cards. It’s become pretty synonymous with GPU tinkering in general, but the app’s developer suggested in a forum post earlier this month that it may not be around for very long. increase. MSI disagrees with this, stating, “We will continue to use MSI Afterburner.”
MSI Afterburner is developed by Alexey ‘Unwinder’ Nicolaychuk, a Russian who has maintained overclocking app functionality for many years. Nicolaychuk is also responsible for developing his RivaTuner Statistics Server, part of his layer of underlying software that powers Afterburner.
in the post of Guru3D forum (opens in new tab) (via Tech Power Up (opens in new tab)), Nicolaychuk suggests that Afterburner development was “half-abandoned”.
“…the MSI Afterburner project is probably over,” says Nicolaychuk.
“Because of war and politics. I didn’t mention it in the MSI Afterburner development news thread, but the project has already been half abandoned by the company for quite some time. In fact, it’s been a year since the date MSI was developed. The reason for the suspension of performance under the Afterburner License Agreement is “Political Issues”. [sic] situation’. “
According to Nicolaychuk, the app has been in development for the past 11 months, but that may soon end.
It is nearly one year since MSI has ceased to fulfill its obligations under the Afterburner License Agreement.
Alexey ‘Unwinder’ Nicolaychuk
“I have tried to continue to do my duty and have worked on projects on my own for the past 11 months and the results have been nothing but disappointments. Beating dead horses and wasting energy on something I just feel that I am no longer needed by the company.
“Anyway, I’ll continue to support myself until I have more time, but I’ll probably have to quit and switch to something else so I can pay the bills.”
Development of the RivaTuner stats server (the software is critical to Afterburner’s many features) is substantially separate from Afterburner and will continue, Nicolaychuk said.
Nicolaychuk has suggested that the issue comes down to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and has confirmed this to MSI. MSI told PC Gamer that payments had been suspended due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, stating that “payments were withheld due to the RU/UA war and the economic restrictions that came with it.”
The ongoing aggression has forced many countries and companies to withdraw from Russia or significantly reduce their footprint in Russia.It is used internationally to easily transfer funds around the world. The banking system SWIFT is restricted in Russia. Many of the country’s banks have been disconnected from the system since March last year.However, according to A Reported by Yale (opens in new tab)updated January 9, 2023, Micro-Star International Co. (MSI) still operates in Russia.
MSI disagrees that this is the end of Afterburner.
We will continue to use MSI Afterburner.
MSI
“We will continue to use MSI Afterburner,” MSI told PC Gamer. “MSI is working on a solution and hopes it will be resolved soon.”
Whether it’s the same or a little different, Afterburner software doesn’t seem to end there. Although it is unclear if that means that he, who has been the sole maintainer of the application for many years, will find a way to pay Nicolaychuk, or that he will implement another plan to fully develop an overclocking app.
