I can confirm the same issue here. M1 Mac for the record. I have tried both fullscreen and windowed. Also not running any other mods.

Make sure you're running the latest version of Stellaris for one, as STNH is up to date...

Otherwise, go through the usual trouble shooting... Verify game files... If that doesn't work, remove STNH, verify, readd STNH and see if that resolves it...

Also try a different map size if you're trying the very large maps... Depending on your specs, you might be asking too much of your system as STNH's large maps are vastly larger, and have 3-4 times the empires than even the absolute largest vanilla games...

Ok. The versions I have are all up to date, that didn't work, as was the same with rollback versions.
Haven't tried verifying as yet, but will try that later. Will do the same with the maps. Tried the full lore version of the milky way and got as far as it loading the start of game before crash. The load bar was right at the end too.
I have a ryzen 5 2400g, 16gb ram and gtx 1060 6gb gpu. So thought that may have been powerful enough....

I have similar problem. Stuck on the loading screen.
- tried both large and medium maps
- then reinstalled ST mod again
- then verified game files
- tried loading smallest map, still doesn't work

I haven't played this mod for a long time but it used to run on my computer fine and never had this problem before and my hardware is for the most part same.

Daimy, same here. Used to play it a couple of years ago and felt the desire to revisit the game. Just doesn't work now

Okay. So I've verified all files. Play it in windowed. Play a medium lore map and with the New Horizons mod on it's own and it works. Any other mods attached don't work. Frankly, I'll take that as a win, given the initial load time

Originally posted by 8thFla(A)Pvt. O.Rawlins:

Okay. So I've verified all files. Play it in windowed. Play a medium lore map and with the New Horizons mod on it's own and it works. Any other mods attached don't work. Frankly, I'll take that as a win, given the initial load time

When you say other mods, do you mean the UI sub mods, or other non-STNH mods?

If you're trying to run STNH with other non-STNH mods then yeah, it usually won't work..

Yeah there were a couple of non-stnh mods (which previously worked with it, not now). Regardless, it's good to have the game up and running again.

Originally posted by 8thFla(A)Pvt. O.Rawlins:

Yeah there were a couple of non-stnh mods (which previously worked with it, not now). Regardless, it's good to have the game up and running again.

And that's why the official stance is that non-STNH mods should not be used as, even if they worked previously, whether or not they will after each new update cannot be assured, and it's also entirely unpredictable as to how they might interact with STNH...