Terrific! At least, its a start. I have a 680M, so a few gens behind yours. I wonder why disabling the intro movie didn't allow the discrete graphics to run DW? It did on mine. Let me take another look at my setup and I'll report back.

<t> Disappointing. Before I arrived at disabling the intro movie as a final solution, I found another work around. On my laptop, Distant Worlds defaults to the discrete nVidia GPU. When I right clicked on the DW executable and selected the intel integrated graphics DW opened up no problem. The game ...

I had a similar issue with a Windows 10 install on my laptop. The solution was as simple as editing the startup.ini file and changing "playmovie 1" to "playmovie 0". Hope that helps.