MSI Afterburner task faces hard times

Alexey “Unwinder” Nicolaychuk confirmed that Afterburner task could beryllium dead. 

The astir fashionable overclocking instrumentality for modern graphics cards is facing licensing problems owed to ongoing warfare successful Ukraine. Due to sanctions, companies specified arsenic MSI are incapable to execute their obligations nether the statement signed with the developer. Alexey, who is based successful Russia is present continuing the task without MSI’s support.

The developer confirmed that the task has been dormant for implicit 11 months now. Current governmental situation, arsenic helium explains, is preventing MSI from performing their obligations. The task is present lone supported by Alexey during his spare time.

Alexey connected MSI Afterburner support, Source: Guru3D

MSI Afterburner is 1 of the astir fashionable tools for discrete GPU overclocking. The bundle is simply a spiritual successor to RivaTuner softare, which has been utilized for GPU overclocking galore years ago. Users whitethorn find it problematic to find an alternate that supports each galore GPU vendors natively. Most brands present see their ain monitoring and elemental overclocking bundle that besides controls the GPU functionality specified arsenic lighting power oregon instrumentality speeds. MSI besides has specified instrumentality called MSI Center.

What is worthy mentioning is that MSI is inactive officially listing the bundle for recently released GPUs, including RTX 4070 Ti. The popularity of the bundle means that scammers are trying to instrumentality vantage of it by releasing cloned apps with malware. MSI is good alert of this information and continues to notation the authoritative root for the bundle is inactive MSI’s ain website. The pursuing tweet was posted successful November, truthful galore months aft not fulfilling Afterburner licensing obligations:

MSI mentioning Afterburner, Source: MSI

The lone bully quality is that RTSS (RivaTuner Statistic Server) is not an MSI tool, truthful it is not affected by sanctions. This statistic and overlay bundle has afloat enactment from Alexey and volition proceed to beryllium supported arsenic it was. That said, the 3rd enactment bundle that uses RTSS should not beryllium impacted.

Alexey confirms that helium volition proceed to enactment the Afterburner task during his escaped time, but this is not the afloat enactment that galore of america would prefer. What is important to enactment is that the sanctions whitethorn not beryllium constricted to fiscal compensation but besides entree to prerelease hardware, fundamentally stagnating the improvement process oregon preventing it altogether.

Source: Guru3D Forums