Just as many folks have already posted, I'm also having trouble with the loading screen. The bar fills up then nothing happens. I've posted in the Bug Reports section, but maybe this is the right section. Here's a copy of what I posted before plus some new info.

I played the game for a bit after its early release today (yay!). Now, my computer isn't the best out there so when I forgot to switch off the space battle cinematics, I knew it was going to crash; it did. I load the game up again and try again. True to my being, I forgot to turn off the cinematics again (I was distracted by how smooth the game was running otherwise). I load the game up for a third time and the game freezes on the Endless Space 2 loading screen (after the Sega animation). This has been consistent despite resetting my computer twice.

A small window had told me to send the error logs to the devs. I've located them in my files but I have no idea how to send them and to which e-mail address. Any help on the matter would be most appreciated since this feels like torture. I'm still really thankful for the early release though! :D

Edit: After re-installing the game, I can no longer find the said files. Validating the integrity of the files via Steam didn't help either.

Since then, I've tried re-installing again, verifying the files via Steam multiple times, and deleted the registry.xml in the folder indicated by the devs. I've also located some files that the devs might be interested in, which I'll post below in chronological order.

• Diagnostics - 2017'05'18 @2214'31''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'18 @2216'04''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'18 @2221'20''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'18 @2224'13''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'18 @2232'00''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'18 @2233'32''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'18 @2244'36''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'19 @0051'53''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'19 @0722'22''.html
• Diagnostics - 2017'05'19 @0927'22''.html

And here's the System Information inquiry from Steam:

Computer Information:
Manufacturer:  Hewlett-Packard
Model:  p7-1539
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand:  AMD A10-5800K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics  
CPU Family:  0x15
CPU Model:  0x10
CPU Stepping:  0x1
CPU Type:  0x0
Speed:  3793 Mhz
4 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading:  Supported
FCMOV:  Supported
SSE2:  Supported
SSE3:  Supported
SSSE3:  Supported
SSE4a:  Supported
SSE41:  Supported
SSE42:  Supported
AES:  Supported
AVX:  Supported
CMPXCHG16B:  Supported
LAHF/SAHF:  Supported
PrefetchW:  Supported

Network Information:

Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS:  Supported
Crypto Provider Codes:  Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver:  AMD Radeon HD 7570

DirectX Driver Name:  aticfx32.dll
Driver Version:  15.200.1045.0
DirectX Driver Version:  8.17.10.1395
Driver Date: 22 June 2015
OpenGL Version: 4.5
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: AMD Radeon HD 7570
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x675d
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.04" x 11.26"  (22.95" diag)
50.9cm x 28.6cm  (58.3cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: -2048 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: AMD HDMI Output (AMD High Defin

Memory:
RAM:  16279 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language:  English
Microphone:  Not set
Steam Controller Cable and Base:  Not set
Media Type:  DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available:  951905 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  313869 Mb
OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969
Game Controller: None detected
VR Headset: None detected

I'm also having this problem, which started with today's update, 1.0.1 - I was able to load the game yesterday, with 1.0.0

Like OmegaPraetor, I am also using an AMD APU and a very similar driver version - I'm not using a newer (17.x.x) driver version because they've dropped support for my APU. I've also noticed that most threads with this problem are using AMD's 5000 and 6000 family of gpus and apus.

Here is my DxDiag

DxDiag.txt

Folks:

Can you check this thread and my answer?

https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/73-tech-support/threads/25544-game-freeze-crash-at-start-up-fix-workaround?page=1

Cheers,