The End of an Era. MSI Afterburner Ends Windows XP Support

[Ralf]

The time has come, Farewell to Windows XP Support.

https://www.techpowerup.com/319120/msi-afterburner-4-6-6-beta-ends-windows-xp-support

[Zef]

*cricket noise

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Only if you update it> according the info on the PATCH>
its patch notes tease the exciting addition of "some future NVIDIA GPU PCI DeviceIDs to (our) hardware database." The forward facing nature of this software upgrade brings some unfortunate news for Windows XP operating system users—Beta version 4.6.6's top bullet point provides some reasoning: "Ported to VC++ 2022 compiler.

Quote from devs>
Please stay on the previous versions of the product if you need this OS support." Unwinder's software engineering team has traditionally stuck with the 2008 Visual C++ compiler, hence Afterburner's long history of supporting Windows XP.

[emoticorpse]

Not trying to be contrarian, but a bit dramatic no? I mean sure Windows XP had an era, sure Afterburner is part of an era.

But, MSI still supporting XP being an era? If it is, not many people taking part in it.

[Sigma957]

Is MSI Afterburner even necessary anymore. Radeons can just use Catalyst and geForces can use Detonators (heh).

[pasa]

Yeah, supporting XP was PITA even 5 years ago, it locks you out of plenty modern tools usage.

However, if you have hardware that runs XP, why would you even need updated afterburner? I'd think once you installed the version that covers your stuff 10+ years ago, you're all set.

[AyaSensei067]

Let's not forget that Windows XP came out 23 years ago...yeah.

[plat]

You can even use Riva Tuner Statistics Server without Afterburner.

My goodness, Windows XP. I'm surprised it's even coming up in any conversation nowadays.