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.

This development ensures that the app works reliably with new GPUs as they're being launched, fixes bugs, and patches security issues. In a community post, Unwinder announced that he is finally calling it quits, and is halting development of the app. Despite continuing to develop Afterburner throughout 2022 without payment, MSI hasn't resolved its payments. Interestingly, MSI PC hardware continued to be sold in the Russian market throughout 2022. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early-2022, MSI stopped payments to Unwinder citing 'political reasons.' Unwinder had been independently (read: without payment) supporting Afterburner out of personal interest throughout 2022 in hopes that MSI would figure out a way to pay him.

MSI Afterburner is developed by Russian national Alexey Nicolaychuk, who goes by the name Unwinder across tech forums.

While you enjoy Afterburner with your new-generation GeForce RTX 40-series 'Ada' and Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA3 GPUs that were released in 2022, do remember that Afterburner's developer hasn't been paid a penny for it. It is used across graphics card brands, and helps you tune up both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. MSI Afterburner is arguably the most popular graphics card overclocking utility that everyone from gamers to professional overclockers swear by.

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