Keep Aero enabled during 3D acceleration in Vista

[Boo025]

Is there a way to force Aero to stay on when there is an application that uses 3D acceleration in fullscreen? (eg. games)

 

[Cogman]

Why would you want it to stay on? My guess is no, the magic happens at an API level which AFAIK isn't configurable.

 

[Nothinman]

That and Aero offloads the drawing to the GPU which I doubt you want happening while playing a game.

 

[Fox5]

Even if there is, it would severely hurt performance. Besides extra overhead, current graphics cards really aren't able to switch between different rendering tasks quickly.