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Jul 19th 20 Ti 16GB Marginally Slower than 8GB Model: MSI Testing (46).

#MSI AFTERBURNER VS EVGA PRECISION HOW TO#
We are still keeping in touch with him and figuring out how to solve thisWe will be periodically checking with Unwinder on whether he has been paid. Due to the war, our payment couldn't transfer to the author's bank account successfully.
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Update 15:53 UTC: MSI in a statement to Hassan Mujtaba of Wcctech says: Our product marketing & accounting team are dealing with this problem now.
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Unwinder and Afterburner are two precious jewels for the DIY PC enthusiast community, and we hope MSI can sort this out, pay Unwinder his arrears for 2022, and fund continued development of Afterburner. Perfectly legal ways to pay Unwinder exist. MSI India, for example, sells graphics cards for Indian Rupees, and uses Indian banks that can settle Russian Ruble payments to Unwinder on behalf of MSI. There are also neutral countries like India, which have direct settlement of Russian Rubles without involving US Dollars or SWIFT. There are several civilian payment channels to Russia still open. MSI's reasons for not paying Unwinder are debatable.

The second most popular app, EVGA Precision X has effectively been discontinued, with the company's exit from the graphics card business and now the Unwinder-developed Afterburner stares at an uncertain future, too. The discontinuation of Afterburner would place the whole graphics card overclocking field in jeopardy. Unwinder clarified that he will continue to support RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS), the backend component that makes Afterburner overlay work. Discontinuation of Afterburner could potentially affect millions of game streamers that rely on this feature. 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.MSI Afterburner is an important tool used not just for its overclocking features and monitoring on the app's UI, but the in-game overlay feature (ability to have GPU and other real-time stats overlaid on top of game streams). 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.
#MSI AFTERBURNER VS EVGA PRECISION LICENSE#
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.
