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    After Win 10 Creator Update - VPN and other icons don't work

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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

      Does enabling opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist solves the problem?

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      • elrosluinwe
        elrosluinwe last edited by

        Yes, the problems solved. When i enabled opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist, the download button and address bar suggestions started to work. My opera browser works normally now 😃 Thank you very much for your help.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          Ok leocg I enabled "opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist" but the drop down for VPN still doesn't work with "update hardware acceleration when available" enabled.

          I still think this is a Creator Update problem as before it worked and my Dell doesn't have the update on it and it works right.

          This system has Intel(R) HD Grahics with the newest drivers from Intel

          As I don't use Windows drivers as almost all the time they are outdated (When you get the right drivers your system will fly)

          This system boots and shutdown very fast, and 98% of the software on this computer is 64bit

          Again I do Thank you very much for trying to help - You Rock 🙂

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          • kryouck
            kryouck last edited by

            Btw drop down of VPN, download button, adress bar, block adds, extensions page pop-ups working but it just 100% invisible

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            • kryouck
              kryouck last edited by

              I have the same issue with ALL chromium based browsers (chromium 59 have this issue too). Nothing help except disabling hardware acceleration (I tried change parametres at the about://flags).
              My specs: 1st generation i7-640M with integrated Intel HD Graphics. I tried default W10 drivers 8.15.10.2900 and the latest 8.15.10.2993.
              We need patch for windows or chromium browser. Not sure if Opera can fix it

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              • claneksi
                claneksi last edited by

                Have nothing new to add, but.. yeah, happens to me too.
                I'm on an old laptop (Pentium T4600 + onboard graphic) and since updating to Creator Update none of the functions mentioned above work (or maybe "100% invisible" like kryouck said above). Had to turn the hardware acceleration off to make them function normally like before.

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                • kryouck
                  kryouck last edited by

                  https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=710560#

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    My Dell computer that doesn't have the Creator Update worked with the "hardware acceleration" turned on, but I just did "About Opera" today and it updated to version 44.0.2510.1218 (PGO) and now "hardware acceleration" has to be turned off 😞 for VPN and Ad Blocker to work (I also turned off the 3 Extensions to make sure that wasn't the problem).

                    I'm Microsoft and Cisco Certified so yes I know what I'm doing 🙂

                    This is a Opera/Chromium Problem

                    Version information

                    Version: 44.0.2510.1218 (PGO) - Opera is up to date
                    Update stream: Stable
                    System: Windows 10 64-bit

                    Browser identification

                    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36 OPR/44.0.2510.1218

                    Like I said my Dell 64bit without the Creator Update worked fine until I updated Opera to the newest version
                    So this is telling me there is a coding bug in this new Opera update

                    This computer I'm on now like I said above does have the Creator Update

                    Thank you and Opera Please fix this problem

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                    • kryouck
                      kryouck last edited by

                      Pop-ups with acceleration on: add -disable-dwm-composition to the shortcut until chromium devs fix this issue
                      https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=712196

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        Thank you @ kryouck

                        I will try this out

                        Again Thank you 🙂

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                        • kryouck
                          kryouck last edited by

                          chromium 60.0.3079 fixed it already

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                          • teacher401
                            teacher401 last edited by

                            Same here! I never thought the "allow hardware acceleration" could be the source or part of the problem. I will check it out. After the Creators update, absolutely nothing could enter or leave Opera except for the Opera auto-update that could check the browser version. I finally unchecked the VPN and voila, now it works. However I do longer have a VPN. Could the good folks at Opera please post: (Opera - VPN for Creators Update - How to Connect to Internet.)

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                            • windave
                              windave last edited by

                              On my Cube i7 Book Win 10 tablet with Creators update, Intel HD Graphics 515 adapter, VPN blue icon works WITH hardware acceleration.
                              On my HP ProBook Win 10 laptop with Creators update, Intel HD Graphics adapter, VPN blue icon only works WITHOUT hardware acceleration.
                              So the VPN problem would seem to be at least partially dependent upon the graphics hardware on any given device!

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                              • nomis88
                                nomis88 last edited by

                                same with me.
                                Download window and search and copy po up from opera doesn't work since creators.

                                Wonder if it's possible and good to go back to aniversery update. Do you have any expierince witch that?
                                I was already trying diffrent video driver version of Intel HD Graphics, but untiol now..

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                                  Wonder if it's possible and good to go back to aniversery update. Do you have any expierince witch that?

                                  It would be something to be discussed in a Microsoft or Windows related forum, not in an Opera's one.

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                                  • nomis88
                                    nomis88 last edited by

                                    just tried it out. In my case enabling gpu blacklist didn't help, but the hardware acceleration made it now.

                                    Thanx for informations

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