My Via/S3G UniChrome Pro IGP does not support hardware acceleration in Visual Studio 2010. What kind of graphic cards (i.e. the specific features) do support this hardware acceleration?
On XP, with VS2010 SP1 you need to override a setting to get HW acceleration. See here for details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/03/03/performance-troubleshooting-article-and-vs2010-sp1-change.aspx
Beyond that, VS2010 is subject to the requirements of WPF HW acceleration. For those, see the table on this page which explains what WPF needs to have a system considered "Tier 1" or "Tier 2" - there are multiple factors. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.rendercapability.tier.aspx