IS this possible in lite-c?

Have a look in the manual under fog_start and fog_end.

I tried that and it didn't seem to work. I am using a laptop with intel graphics though so that may be the problem. It is < 2 months old though.

Did you set the fog_color?

In main, after the level is loaded (a .hmp)

fog_color = 3;
camera.fog_start = 0; // fog starts at 80% of clip range
camera.fog_end = 0.5 * camera.clip_far; // total foggy at 90% of clip

Still nothing

d3d_fogcolor3?
camera.fog_start = camera.clip_near;

Setting fog_color should be sufficient. fog_start and fog_end are only used to tweak the intensity of the effect. d3d_fogcolors is used to tweak the color of the fog in realtime. Well, mobile graphic adapters tend to be less powerfull than the ones developed for workstations, especially the intel ones. However, I can't imagine a graphics adapter younger than a year not supporting such a basic feature like fogging. You could try usnig the command line option "-w3d". Does that help?

No luck with that however it turned off shadow stencil and gave me a frame rate i've never had before on this laptop! (fast!)

Well, of none of these work I can't help you. Except for the usual hints, like update your drivers. Maybe posting in "Ask Conitec" will help you. If other users with the same graphics adapter had problems in the past there might be a solution. In general it's a rather bad idea to buy an intel graphics chip. ATI and NVidia graphics adapter are a better choice. Can you test your code on another machine? Then you can be sure the problems derive from your laptop.

In about a week I go back to uni where I have a gaming rig with 8800 crammed in there. That will be the definitive test.