Some laptops try to run games on the low-power Intel HD Graphics instead of the dedicated NVIDIA/AMD GPU.
Virtual machines (VMware, VirtualBox) and remote desktops (RDP, Citrix) often emulate a generic GPU that only supports DirectX 9 or 10. Shader Model 5.0 will fail.
Some laptops try to run games on the low-power Intel HD Graphics instead of the dedicated NVIDIA/AMD GPU.
Virtual machines (VMware, VirtualBox) and remote desktops (RDP, Citrix) often emulate a generic GPU that only supports DirectX 9 or 10. Shader Model 5.0 will fail.