The Afterburner developers are claiming the problem with blank settings on Windows v1709 is a driver issue releated pixel patcher.

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/afterburner-fails-to-display-clocks-on-patched-crimson-17-10-drivers.417926/

Maybe they will fix it but honestly it looks like they gimped Afterburner intentionally with multiple GPU builds because they are butt hurt about miners buying up GPU's

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/13-gpus-and-or-latest-nvidia-driver-388-31-afterburner-crash-instantly.417993/

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/13-gpus-and-or-latest-nvidia-driver-388-31-afterburner-crash-instantly.417993/#post-5493937

I reverted back to using the blockchain drivers on Windows 10 v1703 and Afterburner is working.