That's interesting - OpenGL 1.4 is often not good enough, 1.5 should be OK. However, laptops have a bad habit of disabling some features to conserve power so that although it says 1.5 it may not in fact meet the spec - and the shortfall is probably the root of the issue. Other than periodically checking for newer drivers, or seeing if the store will let you swap for another machine with a better video chipset, I'm not sure that there's anything you can do.