Omg I thought I was the only one this happened to. I have no idea what happened with this game update, but my game got SO much slower... But anyway, I didn't 100% 'fix' the issue since my loading screen is still taking ages, but at least it actually loads.
Have you tried moving your 'mods' folder somewhere else to see if the game opens to the main menu? I tried that first, but I was still getting the infinite loading screen. Then I thought it might be my DLCs, so I took them out for a second to check, but that didn't fix anything either. I ran out of ideas, so I started clearing the cache files like 'localthumbcache.package' and kept moving my mods folder in and out to test it.
At one moment, I persisted with the loading screen, and it finally loaded after like 20 minutes. I couldn't fix the super slow load times, I just gave up and accepted it lol, but at least my menu finally loads. I still don't know exactly what I did to fix the error, but I just kept messing with the files and checking if my mods had the right files for each mod I downloaded. I don't know if my game is taking forever to load and got super slow because my PC can't even handle all the game's stuff anymore. But it was definitely right after this specific update that it got to the state it's in now. :(
Something similar happened to me,I've been trying to play it since the last update and it goes extremely slow,I thought it was my CC/Mods,but no,all of my mods are working fine and have no issues. It used to load pretty quickly before I did the update,and nothing fixes it and I'm extremely frustrated at that. I tried absolutely everything I could.
moonlightpur If you're getting loading time issues with an empty Mods folder, please head to Bug Reports. There's a current known issue.
I checked it out,I really hope it can get fixed in the next update
moonlightpur An update won't fix your mods. You need to deal with them yourself.
