Hard to tell, your post is so not full of information.

The NVIDIA drivers in Windows allows you to create different profiles with different settings, and (I think) a way to automatically apply a profile when running an application.

My system is windows XP, the video card is a Gigabyte GV-R92128DH which has an ATI Radeon 9200 GPU. As hardware acceleration is controlled by windows (since from what I understand it is a question of your main processor doing the work versus your video card for each level of the setting). I figured if there was something that one could do it would be universal anyways.

yes you can do it
you need a registry monitoring program.
monitor what changes when you alter hardware acceleration
export the changes as a reg file then create a batch file and run the game with it

eg:
regedit accel_low.reg
game.exe

registry monitor :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinterna … s/bb896652.aspx

Note: FileMon and RegMon have been replaced by Process Monitor on versions of Windows starting with Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista. FileMon and RegMon remain for legacy operating system support, including Windows 9x.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinterna … s/bb896645.aspx

If it's a game that uses DirectDraw only, you can get ACT 5.0 and set ForceDirectDrawEmulation flag for that game.