Damn. Unwinder abandons MSI Afterburner development, due to "war and politics". :(

[Kelt]

7900XT Power usage not visible?

I didn't change my afterburner configuration but after installing the 7900XT I'm no longer able to see GPU power usage. Is there a workround? I installed hwinfo but still I don't see a way to view the power usage sensor?

forums.guru3d.com

WTF why?

War and politics are the reasons. 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. 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 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. 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.

Been using this for years. :/

 

[Nexus18]

Shame this:

- OSD stats I could stick with nvidias overlay or just use HWinfo with rivatuner
- screenshots, can use nvidia geforce or windows/steam overlay

However, not sure of any other ways to undervolt as well as what MSI AB functionality provides :/

Having said that, if his new solution is priced appropriately, would have no problems paying for it.

 

[RavenXXX2]

So msi will update it themselves.

 

[Kelt]

So msi will update it themselves.

Hopefully.

 

[Kelt]

Shame this:

- OSD stats I could stick with nvidias overlay or just use HWinfo with rivatuner
- screenshots, can use nvidia geforce or windows/steam overlay

However, not sure of any other ways to undervolt as well as what MSI AB functionality provides :/

Having said that, if his new solution is priced appropriately, would have no problems paying for it.

Yeh, I'd pay for it as well.

 

[brostradamus]

So msi will update it themselves.

i am hoping they would rather relocate unwinder.. this might result in quite a few fried gpus down the line

 

[Martini1991]

So msi will update it themselves.

If that was the case, support would be there since the GPU's are out lol.

 

[varkanoid]

So msi will update it themselves.

Doubt it MSI lost interest in it over a year ago. He even says this above. I thought this might happen after the EVGA debacle when they nicked afterburner and rebadged it as their own a few years ago and the chaos that caused. Poor dev too been treated by the community really badly if any of you follow the Guru3d forum. Several times he has stopped development on it due to hassles he was getting off of forum members. Its a piece of software developed by someone mostly in their free time and they were treated like rubbish by the very people who use it.

 

[Alt0153]

Doubt it MSI lost interest in it over a year ago. He even says this above. I thought this might happen after the EVGA debacle when they nicked afterburner and rebadged it as their own a few years ago and the chaos that caused. Poor dev too been treated by the community really badly if any of you follow the Guru3d forum. Several times he has stopped development on it due to hassles he was getting off of forum members. Its a piece of software developed by someone mostly in their free time and they were treated like rubbish by the very people who use it.

because people are entitled *****

 

[Dicehunter]

Such a shame, Putins decision to invade and murder another countries populace has far reaching consequences not just for the innocents of Ukraine but for the rest of the world this just being 1 of many smaller things that have been affected.

 

[Ayahuasca]

I’d happily pay a few quid for his own version, shame though.

 

[Alt0153]

I’d happily pay a few quid for his own version, shame though.

msi about to charge £5 per month sub to keep you using it for 0 updates!

 

[SpellowHouse]

Someone will take it on. Or some group. Or something very similar. I mean so many people rely on it. I am amazed no one has monetized it.

 

[brostradamus]

its supposed to be owned by msi but they have outsourced development to unwinder, thats my interpretation..
source code documentation has got to be very poor given how the software still relies on vc runtime 2008
my reading is that afterburner was originally owned by unwinder but then msi acquired the IP and were paying unwinder for ongoing development and maintenance

 

[hudson86]

because people are entitled *****

Its a shame if it goes , I use rtss and hwinfo more than Afterburner.

Have you read any of unwinders posts ?

He's a very tricky character, not easy to deal with and takes offence at anything. People asking very polite questions / reporting issues in a constructive manner get incredibly rude, defensive and aggressive responses from him.
(No ive not dared raise anything myself , but have read a few threads before gobsmacked.)

 

[brostradamus]

i read the guru3d thread - rtss is not owned by msi and will be independently managed by unwinder

 

[Blackjack Davy]

its supposed to be owned by msi but they have outsourced development to unwinder, thats my interpretation..
source code documentation has got to be very poor given how the software still relies on vc runtime 2008
my reading is that afterburner was originally owned by unwinder but then msi acquired the IP and were paying unwinder for ongoing development and maintenance

It has a long story originally it was RivaTuner by the author a speciaist in software for medical equipment iirc he quit before after huge amounts of entitled users ranting on the dev thread on whatever the original forum site was, then MSI picked up the tab for developing it and it returned and now it looks likes he's back under a cloud again.

 

[Grim5]

So msi will update it themselves.

Did you read the full post? MSI has abandoned the software and hasn't been interested in it for the last 12 months

 

[Dicehunter]

The undervolting feature for Nvidia cards will be sorely missed if Afterburner becomes incompatible with a future Nvidia driver.

Its a shame if it goes , I use rtss and hwinfo more than Afterburner.

Unwinder has said he will continue work on RTSS as it is not owned by MSI so at least that's a win.

 

[Rroff]

Did you read the full post? MSI has abandoned the software and hasn't been interested in it for the last 12 months

According to Unwinder it is due to the political situation with Russia and sanctions and MSI can't fulfil their obligations easily without breaking the law.

There is potentially a much bigger issue in this context if Unwinder continues to develop the software from Russia including the potential for conscription :s