Windows 10: What uses more gpu power, 100% black color (#000000) or 100% transparency?

On windows task bar, and general graphical interface.

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After Win10 Creators Update: the Task Bar has 100%-transparent instead of 100%-black background

Hi all,

after latest Update (Win10 pro/x64 Creators Update Version 1703) the formerly black, intransparent task bar became 100%-transparent (with a black line on top) - and thus became barely visible.

Now, for a better visibility I had to activate to option transparency effects (from
settings->personalisation->colors), which changes the background of all the (other) main-menus (start, taskbar, action center) into semi-transparency, too.

How can I force all the main-menus into a intransparent black background (like before the Creators Update)?

Thanks in advance

Frank

 

Black Screen, GPU Fan 100% When Playing Games

I would suggest going back to at least the October version:

 

Black Screen, GPU Fan 100% When Playing Games

Hey all,

I have had an issue for the last few months, specifically when trying to play Rocket League, where between 5-20 minutes into playing, both of my monitors will go black and my GPU fan will kick to 100%. I can't remember if this coincided with any NVIDIA driver updates, but any subsequent updates have not helped. I am currently running the latest NVIDIA driver version (441.66).

Here are some of the troubleshooting steps that I have taken for this:

• RAM
• Ran Memtest64 overnight, ensuring that 100% RAM utilization. No errors were returned.
• Reseated the RAM, blowing out the slots to ensure no blockages.
• Tested different memory slots on the board.
• Swapped out RAM with new RAM from Microcenter, no improvements.
• RAM was originally OC'd to 3200 MHz via XMP. I turned this off and the RAM is running at stock speeds listed above.
• BIOS
• Updated BIOS to the latest version
• Performed a Clean Boot and attempted to play. Game still crashed out within the first match or so.
• GPU
• Updated all drivers
• Updated drivers, including a complete DDU uninstall/reinstall.
• Swapped power cables from the PSU
• Moved GPU to lower PCI-E slot
• Reseated the GPU, blowing out the slot after reseating
• Deleted the video driver from Control Panel
• Storage
• Ran chkdsk with no errors
• Ran defragmentation on the HDD and Trim on the SSDs
• Ran sfc /scannow with no issues
• Game Files
• Ran validator on game files (as a note here, after one crash, I ran the validator and it corrected one file. However, I played a game immediately after and crashed. Running the validator after that crash had no files fixed)
• Installed the game on all three storage devices

I have attached the BSOD logs. Please assist!