MSI Afterburner is one of the best applications for monitoring, managing and performing graphics card overclocking techniques. Although it bears the name of a Taiwanese brand, it was created and is maintained by a third-party developer. In recent days, we have come to know a number of problems which threaten their future survival.

It would be a shame, because it is one of those essential applications that are part of the group of free software that offer information, management and testing of the main components of the PC. Specifically MSI Afterburner is overclocking utility of the most popular graphics cards. It offers their full control, provides a detailed description of the hardware and has some additional features such as profile customization, benchmarking and video recording.

It monitors every parameter that affects the graphics card: clock speed, temperature, RAM usage, fan speed and CPU usage (per core). It includes features like OC Scanner to perform automatic overclocking techniques and the truth is that it is very complete and works very well. In addition, it is available completely free of charge can be used with different graphics card models and from any manufacturernot just MSI models.

What is going on with MSI Afterburner

The app was created by Russian developer Alexey ‘Unwinder’ Nicolaychuk and maintained in collaboration with MSI engineers. The legal part is covered by the RivaTuner license, the main software on which it is based is also created by the same developer. In a post on the Guru3D forums, Nicolaychuk suggests that the development was “semi-deserted… MSI’s Afterburner project is probably dead«he assures and explains it “war [en Ucrania] and politics are reasons ».

I didn’t mention it in the MSI Afterburner development news thread, but the project has been partially abandoned by the company for some time now. In fact, we’re approaching the one-year mark since MSI stopped fulfilling its obligations under the Afterburner license agreement due to the “political situation”.He says.

Nicolaychuk says he has continued to develop the app himself, but that it may end soon: “I’ve tried to keep up with my commitments and have been working on the project alone for the last 11 months, but I’ve had nothing but disappointment; I feel like I’m just beating a dead horse and wasting energy on something that is no longer needed for the company.”.

MSI reported this to PC Gamer plans to continue development and that’s where the problem lies stopped payments to developers due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the economic regulations it entails against Russian citizens. Still, the company says the app will continue to work, that they’re working on a fix, and that they’re hoping everything will be back to normal. We’ll see. MSI Afterburner works on the basis provided by the developer’s proprietary statistics server RivaTuner.