Cata Classic Beta won't start -- 3D accelerator error

I’m temporarily playing WoW on a terrible old laptop with integrated graphics that the game doesn’t actually support any more. Wrath Classic? Starts and runs just fine. Dragonflight? Sure. (Mind you, I have the graphics settings turned way way down & I use the additional command line argument “-d3d11legacy”).

But the Cata Classic beta will not start – the Launching button shows briefly, then gives this “Your 3D accelerator card is not supported” error. It seems odd that I can get both Wrath classic & Dragonflight to run, but not this beta. I know I’m probably out of luck, but does anyone have any thoughts on this?

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Have you tried running it it win7 or 8 compatibility mode?

Both. Still nothing. Oh, well.