Had his invasion of Ukraine not occurred, MSI Afterburner's development would have continued without any issues.īelow is what Unwinder had to say about MSI Afterburner's continued development. If there is a villain here, it is Vladimir Putin. As such, MSI cannot be seen as a villain for not supporting Afterburner's development. There is nothing that MSI can do about this. Unwinder has continued to develop MSI Afterburner without MSI's support for the past eleven months, but without payment this support cannot continue indefinitely.Īs it stands, MSI cannot support Afterburner's continued development due to sanctions against Russia. MSI are unable to fulfil their obligations due to Russia's war against Ukraine and the resulting sanctions against Russia. When asked why the development of MSI Afterburner is in jeopardy, the Russian developer stated that MSI had "stopped performing their obligations under (the) Afterburner license agreement" almost a year ago. Should MSI Afterburner's development end, there is no competing overclocking tool that offers gamers the same feature set. No other branded overclocking tool is as feature rich as MSI Afterburner.
MSI Afterburner is a popular GPU overclocking software that is commonly used by PC gamers to overclock their graphics cards, monitor system thermals, create custom fan profiles, monitor game performance, take screenshots, and PC benchmarking. We are still keeping in touch with him and figuring out how to solve thisĪlexey Nicolaychuk, the developer known as "Unwinder" has confirmed that the development of MSI Afterburner may be coming to an end, with MSI having "semi-abandoned" the project as a consequence of Russia's war against Ukraine. Due to the war, our payment couldn't transfer to the author's bank account successfully.
Our product marketing & accounting team are dealing with this problem now. MSI are searching for ways to solve this issue, but international sanctions have left the company with few options. As mentioned below, sanctions against Russian have prevented MSI from transferring payments to the developer's bank account.
Update - MSI has released the following statement regarding their support for MSI Afterburner. MSI has reportedly abandoned the development of their popular Afterburner software
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