So I bought Endless Space 2 a few weeks ago and finally got around to playing it. I went to open the game but after the Sega and Amplitude logos hit ES2 wouldn't load past like 25%. I verified the game but it didn't change anything. Anyone else have problems like this?

Try deleting your Endless Space 2 folder in your documents. It might be a bad resgistry.xml or other setting. 

This will also delete all your save games.

Can you please upload the following files

dxdiag

output_log.txt

diagnostics.html

You can use the "upload file" option on the forums, its the paper with teh folded corner