So what does the future hold for MSI Afterburner? Who knows. 'MSI have been working on a solution and expect it to be resolved soon. We fully intend to continue with MSI Afterburner,' MSI tells PC Gamer. Beyond that, now that it is public information that MSI are actively trying to send money into Russia, it will be interesting to see how governments and law enforcement will react to this.īelow is a statement that MSI has made to PC Gamer. MSI reportedly expect their payment issue to be 'resolved soon', though at this time it is unknown how MSI plans to bypass Russian sanctions.

We are still keeping in touch with him and figuring out how to solve this 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 has stated that they are trying to figure out how to to pay Unwinder for his development efforts.īelow is a statement that MSI has made to WCCFTECH's Hassan Mujtaba. This has lead 'Unwinder' to state that the MSI Afterburner project is 'probably dead', but now MSI has made it clear that they plan to continue supporting the software. Yesterday, we reported that MSI Afterburner's development is in jeopardy due to western sanctions against Russia, which has prevented MSI from paying Unwinder for maintaining their MSI Afterburner software.

MSI Afterburner is developed by Alexey Nicolaychuk, who is known as 'Unwinder' online, a Russian national who has been in charge of the applications development and is the developer being RivaTuner Statistics Server. MSI Afterburner is one of the world's most popular GPU overclocking utilities, being commonly used by PC gamers regardless of their GPU's manufacturer. MSI plans to continue supporting MSI Afterburner, despite difficulties.

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