DWU not starting, Help!

[Rorqual Maru]

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.

[randommonicle]

Thank you for the advice i have already tried this however, and still no joy

[Rorqual Maru]

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 is far more enjoyable with discrete graphics but is playable with the CPU on board graphics. I think you can do the same on a desktop with an intel CPU but I have not tried it.

[randommonicle]

ORIGINAL: Rorqual Maru

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 is far more enjoyable with discrete graphics but is playable with the CPU on board graphics. I think you can do the same on a desktop with an intel CPU but I have not tried it.

You have hit the nail on the head. I seem to be able to run it if i switch to integrated graphics. Now i wonder why that is. Out of interest what GPU do you have on your laptop? I have the 980m

[Bingeling]

It should be a good lead to figure out why it crashes on that other graphics chip, at least.

[Rorqual Maru]

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.

[randommonicle]

Thankfully DWU is not too demanding graphically. Not so far anyway. Will have another poke around and see if i can figure anything out, but it really seems that it doesnt like the GPU. I wonder if this is an nvidea issue.

[VPaulus]

It might be related with drivers. This hybrid graphic technology can be problematic.
Have you updated to Windows 10 or made a clean install of Windows 10?

[randommonicle]

I have updated to win 10 on both my machines. The issue is only with the laptop however It can be played on integrated graphics, so it is not too much of an issue my end any longer. At least not at the moment

[VPaulus]

It's always best to perform a clean Windows installation then an update.
Anyway, we have reported this to Elliot (developer).

You shouldn't experience a big significant difference when playing with a Intel graphics rather then a Nvidia card, as the game is not very demanding in terms of graphics usage...
CPU clock speed is the important factor in terms of performance.

[randommonicle]

Yeah it seems to be doo-able certainly. Thank you for the help