SOMA Crashes on startup

[ParkbenchM]

SOMA runs perfectly fine when it does manage to launch. The FPS is fine and it does not crash. In the HPL logs after a succesful launch my GTX 860M is noted and the Open GL number is higher than 3.3.0. Now 80% of the time the game immediatly crashes upon starting and the hpl log states that the card had Open GL 1 and the card was absent (including the integrated one). I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled both graphics cards; disabled one and the other; turned off a bunch of background programs while trying to run the game; updated the drivers; and verified the integrity as well as apply administrator settings and compatability settings. If i somehow magically get the game to start, it will play fine for the duration until I restart my computer. It will then give the same error; and I have to do a myriad of things again and sometimes it doesnt even work.

Does anyone have any suggestions from hearing this or solutions that worked for them?

[plutomaniac]

You can set the game to start with the Nvidia card manually via the Nvidia Control Panel.

Nvidia Optimus also has a right click option which allows you to select between iGPU and dGPU.