Got Aero working on a G41 with GeForce Go 5200

[Medessec]

My British friend wanted me to try out his OpenGL 2 Java game on my G41, but when I tried it, it failed to start. He did some quick research and prodding for driver updates, and I kept telling him that since I have Windows 7 installed on mine, and I had already slipped an XP driver in and used that for hardware acceleration, he probably wouldn't have much luck.

He found a driver that backports 6000-series features to the Go5200 core, and asked me to give it a shot. To my surprise, it not only successfully installed with no issues, it enabled Aero, OpenGL 2, and Shaders 3.0. A huge discovery we made is that running Aero abuses the Graphics chip significantly- so running with Aero off is best when gaming or running web applications.

But it works! I'll try to see if I can upload the driver after some testing for other G41 owners out there.

[ajkula66]