[Kiwi]

For the OP, this is probably too late now, but any other messager with a similar onboard chip problem (and there are many) may need to know that only a miniscule percentage of laptop PCs are set up for video upgrades, and almost all that can be upgraded must be done so by the factory, not the owner.

Quite a number of desktop PCs also have been sold without any true video bus for upgrades as well. Only AGP or PCI-e bus hardware qualifies for game- playing capability, and the cheapest of PCs were sold with plain PCI slots. Plain PCI simply isn't good enough.

Well above 90 % of all PCs are supposedly being sold with only an onboard video chip, and laptops particularly no provision for using a discrete video device. A sizable part of that number use the various Intel tinker toy devices that do not work at all in modern 3D games.

Both ATI and nVidia have been offering onboard video chips that actually do include all of the required Dx9 functions (such as T&L, which has only just recently been included in one Intel IGP, the X3000). These IGPs run slowly, and are unsuitable for animated 3D games.