"Gaming laptop" ...think I threw up a bit in my mouth. Nividia cards don't work too well with maple. Do you gfx for Zak? After the arms are killed, turn the slider for your gfx up or down a setting on each body. For the 3rd body (green hp bar) i have to do it every minute or so.
I remember doing this on official maple servers. So if nexon couldn't even be bothered to fix it, I don't think it's high on the Devs list. A lot more important things for them to be working on. This isn't game breaking. Simply hit the esc key and use the arrow keys to tab twice, then hit the arrow key left or right once and hit enter. Done
The problem isn't really with the game. It's how NVIDIA handles older DirectX. If you have a Radeon/ATI/AMD graphics chip, it's just fine. Or you can use the Intel onboard graphics, if your processor has it. Some gaming laptops don't have embedded graphics so you may be out of luck on that one.