However, Alexey adds that even if MSI should stop licensing or supporting the app, development on RTSS will continue as MSI does not own it. They’d love to keep the project alive, but they cannot and will not cancel or bypass sanctions and make SWIFT magically work here.” The following reply came today after another forum member said they filed a complaint with MSI Europe. Anyway I’ll try to continue supporting it myself while I have some free time, but will probably need to drop it and switch to something else, allowing me to pay my bills.” War Sanctions to BlameĪlexey, who lives in Russia, does not begrudge MSI but instead explains that the company doesn’t want to risk punishment for violating sanctions as Russia continues the war in Ukraine. I tried to continue performing my obligations and worked on the project on my own during the last 11 months, but it resulted in nothing but disappointment I have a feeling that I’m just beating a dead horse and waste energy on something that is no longer needed by company. Actually we’re approaching one year mark since the day when MSI stopped performing their obligations under Afterburner license agreement due to “politic situation”. I didn’t mention it in MSI Afterburner development news thread, but the project is semi abandoned by company during quite a long time already.

The responses originally began with Unwinder saying they had not received any samples so they were unable to work on any updates but not long after another reply stated that the project is likely dead which, of course, got the community’s attention in asking why and here’s the answer given. Meanwhile, users have been asking for updates to use AB with their new RX 7900XT cards which triggered the responses from the MSI Afterburner developer.

In recent years EVGA’s Precision X1 gained in adoption as an alternative but it too is now in limbo following EVGA’s exit from the graphics card market although it did release update version 1.3.7.0 with support for RTX 4090 cards in October 2022. The overclocking tool has been the de facto go-to for millions of users worldwide and this news comes as a shock to much of the community that relies on it. MSI Afterburner developer Alexey Nicolaychuk, aka “Unwinder” on the Guru3D forums, says that the project is likely dead in a series of forum posts.

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