Which is strange, since I can run recent games such as Dark Souls 2 with no trouble.
Dark Souls 2 is renown for being one of the best optimized games this year so far, no wonder it's running fine on your system, it's not that taxing.
What I mean is that the ingame message implies that my system isn't good enough whereas (I'm not a specialist but) I think it is close, if not superior, to the recommended requirements. So the problem would come from the game not being optimized and not my laptop specs being too low end.