This applies to all those PCs that come with Intel's motherboard graphics chipset, which is what all the low-end Dell's come with.
Not true. My ABit IG-80 motherboard uses an on-board Intel chipset and it runs BlitzMAX applications flawlessly. It runs CircleMania roughly at the same speed as the Radeon X800XT does, (that is capped by the refreshrate). I know a guy who sells casual games written in OpenGL and he has a 50% failure rate from Windows based customers. They just don't have proper drivers installed.
That's pretty disturbing. Is this driver issue specific to a certain brand of chipsets?Incidently, if someone doesn't have the right drivers installed, a DirectX fallback wouldn't be of any use either. Unless it was a fall-back to DX3 or something (no 3D hardware acceleration).
And Dreamora - S3 isn't a mainstream manufacturer anymore. It hasn't even been a company the last 10 years or so.