Oops, that doesn't look very good. So the window just stays white from the very beginning, without even the main menu appearing?

If I run it off my integrated graphics, I can get the main menu to appear. Re sizing the game seems to select menu options randomly, otherwise I can't seem to do anything. Managed to glitch it into starting. It took roughly 10 minutes for it to load a new game and all I had was the mini-map in the top left, everything else was black. I'm fairly sure there was a frame counter, it read 22.

So on integrated graphics it doesn't load at all (white screen), and Nvidia(?) it loads up the menu, but you're not able to select anything with neither mouse or keyboard, am I correct?

Integrated loads the main menu, NVIDIA produces nothing.
Neither windows are responsive.

If I play the game with the integrated graphics, I have figured out that I can refresh the screen by moving it around, so I can click on something, then move the window to advance time

I have also noted that the playing field is displayed only if I use Unicode.

This sounds so bad I don't even know were to begin trying to solve it. I wish I had access to your PC. I guess scrapping SFML altogether in favor of SDL is the only solution.

If you want a refund I'll understand.

Ps. I assume you've tried the latest Alpha, as I did fix a small problem with the graphics there.

If you like, you could connect via team-viewer to my computer and see for yourself.
Are there any dependencies that I should know about?