No love for Intel GMA users?

[nambit]

Sigh, ATI & Nvidia driver links, but nothing for poor little me. 

Really regretting the decision on not going for the Nvidia card in my XPS 1330.
There seems to be no hope on the Intel X3100 integrated card which is in my
lappy.  I hardly play 3D games, so I figured the X3100 was perfect for 2D games,
but this thing is chugging for me.  I've checked my CPU and memory readings when
playing the game, and neither are maxed out.  I'm still wondering if it's just intel's
drivers that are failing me.  Nonetheless, I can't understand how even 640x480 is
not doing well for me.  Honestly, I'm baffled.  Perhaps the OGL support by Intel is
broken or something. 

[nambit]

Regarding my thread question... Guess not.  I think it's an OpenGL
thing as my DirectX games seem to run fine on this machine.  Some
have lots of animations, rich backgrounds and such. 

[Alec]

Hmm unfortunately I don't know much about that card/driver setup, so I can't really add any useful comments.

If you have the latest drivers for your sound + video card, then I'm not really sure what else can be done at this point.

[nambit]

I guess I'll just play it on the desktop.  I'd much rather play it on
the large 60 inch plasma in the other room, but the laptop is just
not working out with this game.  The desktop (Nvidia 7300 card)
runs it perfectly fine at 800x600 (60fps) which looks smooth as
silk on the plasma (much better motion than on my LCD).  I still
don't understand why this game chugs on my laptop (heck, the CPU
isn't even going past 50%) but I guess it's a driver thing that Intel
is not really going to fix anytime soon.  I've seen enough folks complain
about the OpenGL support on my embedded graphics chip (DirectX is
fine... figures). 

By the way, GREAT game!  Damn, I've been dying for such a game
since Metroid Zero Mission.  I love underwater fantasy themes.