These are the official requirements, and they aren't at all demanding, save for not supporting any IGP video devices:
Minimum System Requirements
Intel's video chip doesn't qualify your system for EA support, is the reason for the error message, which results from not selecting the correct (Optimus) as the full time graphics device when playing games.
Well i managed to fix it, hooked on a 2nd monitor and set it to 60Hz. Then the game started but i still can't change the in game video settings.
I've mostly given up on nVIDIA. Their pricing runs higher than needful, and they mistreat their laptop customers horribly. I have an old 9800 GT in a machine here, but each of my others have AMD Radeon graphics.
