Developer MSI Afterburner seems to be putting development on the back burner

The developer of the most popular software for overclocking graphics cards, MSI Afterburner, seems to be putting development on the back burner. MSI didn’t pay him for a year. MSI says it’s because of the war in Ukraine. The developer is Russian.

The developer, Alexey Nicolaychuk, says on the Guru3D forum that he continued developing MSI Afterburner for another 11 months without payment, but that MSI has not paid him since. He claims that it feels like beating a dead horse and that he will only tinker with the software in his spare time.

An editor from Wccftech says that he heard from MSI that the payments could not proceed due to the sanctions surrounding payment transactions in Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine. As a result, payments would not go through, but MSI says it has remained in contact with the developer and MSI would try to resolve the problem.

MSI Afterburner is the most popular application for overclocking graphics cards and MSI also lists the latest cards from Nvidia and AMD as compatible. The software competes with EVGA Precision, but EVGA is no longer active in the video card market and therefore appears to have stopped developing the software.

MSI Afterburner