I just thought about this... one of the threads here I mentioned that I had a game that wouldn't run in XP because version of OpenGL that was required was too old for the new video card.
Some one posted a link to a program that can grab OpenGL calls and redirect,
But I forget what thread it is in. And exactly how it works...
I'll do a search and see if I can find it. Might get you working on the laptop.
Barracuda