I'm having the same issue, and from the screenshot in the first post it looks like my loading bar gets stuck in the same place as Sebro's. I've tried completely removing the game (Steam uninstall followed by manually deleting the Endless Space 2 folders in both my Steam directory and My Documents) and fresh installing, and nothing has changed.

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The diagnostics file includes lines indicating that it failed to detect a Steam connection, but I can't imagine why that would be. I am definitely connected to Steam and experiencing no connectivity issues.

Also, this might not be relevant, but my graphics card is a Radeon HD 6870, which is one of the chipsets that has been causing a lot of issues since launch. This doesn't seem like a graphics issue, but since it's something that has been the source of a failure to reach the main menu in the recent past I thought I'd mention it.

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Sebro wrote:

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I'm still not sure on the cause of this issue

Did you rename the "endless space 2" folder in your documents?

Try running the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool

i can't rename the map for some reason

Sebro wrote:

i can't rename the map for some reason

Could you specifiy what you mean by "rename the map", I'm not sure what you mean my "the map"

I wanted you to try renaming the "Endless space 2" Folder in "C:\Users\Sebastian\Documents\" to "Endless space 2-Old" 

(As there is an small chance the error might be caused by something in the folder)

Have you done that ?

ok thanks for the help anyway

Sebro wrote:

ok thanks for the help anyway

No Problem, Sorry I couldn't solve this issue

Painter448 wrote:

Sebro wrote:

ok thanks for the help anyway

No Problem, Sorry I couldn't solve this issue

I did all this from Painter448s' previous post on this thread.

I renamed the "Endless space 2" Folder in Documents to "Endless space 2-Old"

So they best way to solve this would be to do a clean install (as this is out of the verify game cache's depth) 

To  Do a clean install first open up the games install folder, then in  steam uninstall the game, then go back to the folder and delete any  remaining files.

Next go to the user directory (%My  Documents%/Endless Space 2) and delete the "Users" folder. Then  Reinstall the game from steam. This Should fix it.

I was having the same symptoms. Stuck on loading screen part way through the progress.

It now works fine for me

Thanks

:)

still the same :( won't load

yea still can't play :(

Well, I just came back to it a few hours later and now it loads up just fine, without any changes since my last post. No idea why. Maybe there really was some kind of temporary connection issue, but in such a way that neither the Steam client nor any of my other games were affected?

DxDiag.txt

Sebro wrote:

DxDiag.txt

Try Placing these Registry Files in the respective locations and see if it helps. They are set at the most basic visual settings, Incase thats causing anything odd.

Registry.xml - "C:\Users\Sebastian\Documents\Endless Space 2\Users\169358978\"

Registry.xml - "E:/Andra disk steam /steamapps/common/Endless Space 2\"

I Can't Think of much else to solve this issue.

still the same

Sebro wrote:

still the same

I just checked the dxdiag and your video driver is not up to date. Try updating it Nvidia Driver Download

still the same :(

Sebro wrote:

still the same :(

Nothing else I can think to Suggest, Really Don't Know whats causing this