Hi Mike, MoI does use the video card for it's display, you might try updating your video drivers to the most current one and see if that has any effect.

Also maybe some kind of anti-virus or anti-malware type system that you're running is having some negative performance effect. If you're running any kind of utility like those that hooks into programs at a low level try disabling it temporarily and see if that helps or not.

Maybe when you run MoI early in the boot up process whatever other software is bogging things down has not gotten up and running at that time, that's kind of what it sounds like to me.

- Michael