invisible characters?

First, you're more likely to get help if you don't deliberately set your words into a difficult-to-read color.

Please post your CoH Helper output so we can get a better idea of how your system is set up. Based on a quick search, your laptop may be using "Integrated Radeon Xpress 1200 Graphics", which is something I'm not really familiar with, but hopefully someone else is. In general, laptop integrated graphics are on the weak side for CoH, and manufacturer-provided drivers are frequently old.

Something you can try in the meantime is to start CoH in "safe mode", which sets most of the graphics settings to minimum. If things are correct (although low-resolution), you can try gradually increasing settings to see what your laptop can handle.

quick sanity check response... did you try zooming your camera out?