The bit about the driver madness in the post could have used a little context.
The short story is that HP's driver support is AWFUL and we can't fix that. I don't know if anyone on the planet can, including the people at HP.
The long story is that laptop manufacturers often bundle specific drivers with their laptops (if you've ever had an Acer or HP or Compaq or whatever, you know that there's a page on their website that contains all the drivers "for" that laptop). It is almost tradition that these drivers are not the most current drivers for the hardware, because they test them with the hardware and won't vet newer drivers because it's a costly process.
Typically the newer drivers for that chip specifically from the chip manufacturer will work for any given laptop with that chip (though in some seemingly very rare cases they cause issues). Installing them at this point is just a matter of going to intel's website, downloading their driver software, and running it. However , if your laptop manufacturer has actually changed the drivers themselves, by changing the date on the file to make your computer think that they're newer than the actual official drivers from Intel, then there's really not much we can do. You have to delete any record of them on your PC because otherwise it will attempt to install them anytime it notices a device that matches their specs on your PC (it thinks they're the newest ones after all). I will go on record and say that this is really stupid. People who are savvy enough to know that they have a specific intel chipset and know how to find their drivers should again be savvy enough to deal with these problems.
Finally, I want to add, just for posterity, that of course I wish that there was a way for us to guarantee that the game would work on everyone's PC. Not only is that good business, but we want to be as inclusive as possible, and we know not everyone can afford current gen hardware. We're probably going to be able to support video cards that are up to 5 years old. We can even support some laptop hardware that isn't even really designed for games that's 2 years old. But we're not miracle workers. I'm sorry folks.