Windows Vista Aero Glass and GeForceFX Go 5200
If, like me, you have a laptop with a GeForceFX 5200 Go you may have already discovered that NVIDIA does not provide support for these cards in their latest Vista drivers. Fear not, because its not a big task to "workaround" this in three easy steps -
Step 1
Downoad the latest Vista drivers from NVIDIA http://www.nvidia.com
Step 2
Extract the ZIP file containing the drivers to somewhere on your local machine.
Step 3
Within extracted folder open nv_disp.inf in notepad
Locate the section [NVIDIA.Mfg.NTx86.6.0] (32-bit Vista) or the similarly named 64-bit Vista section and add the following line at the end of the list of devices -
%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1% = nv_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0324
(NOTE: Owners of other unsupported NVIDIA cards can probably add support for their cards by copying the PCI\VEN information from the device in device manager)
Next, find the section titled [Strings] and add the following line -
NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200"
That's it! Now save the modified file and exit notepad. Now go ahead and open device manager, find the GeForce Go device and click "Update Driver..." then point it to the location of the extracted Nvidia drivers.
