Napoleon: total war crashes when started up

I've already played 5hours on napoleon but for some reason when I want to play it now it just won't go past the loading screen. So every time I start the game it just goes to the loading screen but it never starts.
I have no mods etc. I just installed the game and all the patches.

Thread moved from NTW GD section to tech help.

If the vanilla game is acting abnormal then the first thing a person should do is:

• Right click on the game within the Steam library.
• Go to properties.
• Click on local files.
• Click on verify integrity of game cache.
• It will take a little while. If there are errors then it deletes the local content, and re-downloads it from scratch.

Try the Beta button in the top-left corner?

Try offline mode?

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