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Raingriffin was in IRC and something came up where I found out he couldn't play Allegiance with his power cord plugged in, so I told him to check his chipset power management settings and also check vsync options.  It turns out he went on some huge quest and made a few discoveries of his own regarding vsync.  I thought I'd let you know.  Here's the conversation.

        <Raingriffin> hey there
        <Raingriffin> fuzz you there?
        <Raingriffin> pkk?
        <Fuh-zz> hello
        <Raingriffin> hi
        <Raingriffin> had something to tell about the intel chipset on my laptop
        <Raingriffin> you may have been interested since you told me to check about some things
        <Fuh-zz> sure i guess i might end up telling someone who will do something with the info :p
        <Raingriffin> yeah but it may be not too important
        <Raingriffin> as long as it goes into techline
        <Raingriffin> basically oyu told me to check the power management options for the overheating
        <Fuh-zz> right, the power cord charging thing
        <Raingriffin> and it worked, it seems the laptop onboard intel chipset can't handle max quality with alleg
        <Raingriffin> in the chipset options menu
        <Raingriffin> i set it on balanced and now max graphics in alleg don't blue screen the game anymore
        <Raingriffin> but then kicks in the other new
        <Raingriffin> news*
        <Raingriffin> remember how you told me to check about vsync?
        <Raingriffin> well
        <Raingriffin> looks like the R6 beta client doesn't have the option in the menu at least not where r5 has it, not nowhere else i could find but...
        <Raingriffin> i found out the options wasn't even  in my chipset's menu
        <Fuh-zz> oh that's right, in R6 it's automatically enabled
        <Raingriffin> yeah and here kicks in the weird thing
        <Raingriffin> it seems intel chipsets onboard laptops default vsync to off
        <Fuh-zz> they probably do that so they get more people coming in with overheating chipsets
        <Raingriffin> yes but now here's the really big news
        <Raingriffin> remember we got intel fixes in r6
        <Fuh-zz> for the most part, yep
        <Raingriffin> cause intel gave graphical glitches in r5
        <Raingriffin> now i got those too
        <Raingriffin> but i took some ross version drivers for intel mobiles
        <Raingriffin> that let me enable vsync on
        <Raingriffin> in the chipset menu
        * pkk|AFK is now known as pkk|GB
        <Raingriffin> i went into r5 today and turned vsync on there too
        <Raingriffin> and the glitches are not there anymore
        <Raingriffin> not even one
        <Raingriffin> not even a slowdown
        <Raingriffin> and i am running at 1200x800
        <Fuh-zz> that's good news
        <Raingriffin> with everything on
        <Raingriffin> so maybe, just maybe
        <Fuh-zz> hey Pandy are you here?
        <Raingriffin> that could be one source of the glitches we kept having
        <Fuh-zz> not all but some perhaps
        <Raingriffin> it sure handled mines
        <Fuh-zz> what model chipset do you have?
        <Raingriffin> one of the older ones
        <Fuh-zz> everything gets old after a year
        <Raingriffin> mobile intel 4 series
        <Raingriffin> express
        <Raingriffin> it always puzzled me how come it handled, say DDO and didn't handle alleg
        <Raingriffin> i can run HL2 np and i can't run alleg
        <Raingriffin> well that's all i wanted to report
        <Raingriffin> obviously now it works perfectly in r6 as well
        <Raingriffin> not the right way to report it i am sure but still
        <Raingriffin> it's major for me cause i haven't been able to play since i changed laptop
        <Raingriffin> almost a year ago
        <Fuh-zz> cool dude
        <Fuh-zz> have fun in game :)

Looks like the drivers he mentioned are just the "desktop" flavors which normally you can't install on a laptop.  I guess it worked out for him.