i've attached a program i wrote to test your video settings, tell me if it still gives you an generic rendering context.
Hi slicer4ever, with your program i do get hardware acceleration!!! This program is running on my gpu.
Here is the output
VIDEO CONTEXT INFORMATION
VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
RENDER: GeForce GT555M/PCIe/SSE2
VERSION: 4.2.0
COLOR BITS: 32
DEPTH BITS: 24
Can you tell me what did you use to create the window?