As written in the description, if you have Intel HD, you won't be able to play the game since it will stuck on the first loading screen.

The following conditions are all true (up until 4/1/2014):

1. You have both integrated card Intel HD 4000 or lower and discrete card e.g NVIDIA GT 640m.
2. Integrated card (Intel HD) is active.

You can check the card being active that you have easily by running 'dxdiag'. Here's how:

1. On your desktop, press and hold Windows key, immediately press 'R'.
2. A small box will appear, type 'dxdiag'. Another window will pop up.
3. On display tab, you should see a name of your graphic card. If it says Intel HD Graphics 4000, you're being affected by this problem.




The problem here is that the game can't recognize that the laptop has dual graphic adapters. It only looks up to the primary/active one, therefore NVIDIA card will always be ignored since it is never activated unless the demanding app requests for it. And since the bug exists in the engine (can't render on integrated chipset), the game will never go through the first screen.

1. Bring up your Nvidia Control Panel. Start menu -> type Nvidia into it. Click on it.



2. On the following screen, you need to search for the game's exe and apply the properties: click add and browse.



3. Navigate to your game's folder. Choose valdis_story_AC.exe and click open.



4. Change the option to your High Performance NVIDIA as highlighted.



Done.

Now press apply and try to relaunch the game.