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Hey guys,

I have a T61p 14inch version so I got the 128mb version of the 570m. The driver for Win 7 by Lenovo actually dropped my graphics performance with Aero from a 4.3 to 4.2. It worked fine still and there was a little stutter when doing some graphical stuff, but it's becoming a bit more noticeable now that I got a 22 inch monitor hooked up with it. Anybody use or know of another driver that might increase performance?

Thanks

Stop using Aero.

That's all I can do? This graphics card is too dinky for Aero? I really like the thumbnails for the taskbar in Win 7 and don't want to lose that. I did disable transparency, but that didn't seem to help.

Any other suggestions?

Your card is fine for Aero - you don't need to disable it.
I looked into better drivers when I first bought mine because I wanted to play BioShock. Check out laptopvideo2go.com and similar sites. The NVS140M is basically the same hardware as the GeForce (don't remember which one - 8800?) so if you want to game on it you'll likely need to find those drivers and lie to them on install. I was able to get at least the demo for BioShock to run that way, and I think I used the same drivers for playing HL2 (which played very well on the T61p).

A good place to start would be http://laptopvideo2go.com/

I guess the problem is that it runs hot. I noticed reading other forums or maybe this one and I'm running 65 degrees celcius on idle while everything else is usually below 45. I guess this thing is slowly dying.