{"id":7684,"date":"2023-01-16T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:41:00","slug":"msi-afterburner-dead-due-to-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7684","title":{"rendered":"MSI Afterburner dead due to sanctions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" data-attachment-id=\"7685\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=7685\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/01\/ab.gif?fit=785%2C532&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"785,532\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ab\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/01\/ab.gif?fit=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/01\/ab.gif?fit=640%2C434&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/01\/ab.gif?resize=640%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7685\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>MSI Afterburner is probably the best known graphics card overclocking software. Unfortunately, it may be dead due to the war in the Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The original developer of graphics card overclocking utility MSI Afterburner has warned that the software is &#8220;semi abandoned&#8221; and &#8220;probably dead&#8221;. The dev, Russian national Alexey &#8216;Unwinder&#8217; Nicolaychuk, <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.guru3d.com\/threads\/7900xt-power-usage-not-visible.446010\/#post-6090142\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forums.guru3d.com\/threads\/7900xt-power-usage-not-visible.446010\/#post-6090142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted on the Guru3D forums<\/a> (good spot by TechPowerUp) that due to economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, MSI haven\u2019t paid him for his work on Afterburner in nearly a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/msi-afterburner-dev-says-the-overclocking-app-is-probably-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/msi-afterburner-dev-says-the-overclocking-app-is-probably-dead<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSI Afterburner is probably the best known graphics card overclocking software. Unfortunately, it may be dead due to the war in the Ukraine. The original developer of graphics card overclocking utility MSI Afterburner has warned that the software is &#8220;semi abandoned&#8221; and &#8220;probably dead&#8221;. The dev, Russian national Alexey &#8216;Unwinder&#8217; Nicolaychuk, posted on the Guru3D forums (good spot by TechPowerUp) that due to economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, MSI haven\u2019t paid him for his work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7684\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1ZW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7686,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions\/7686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}