The game is currently unplayable for me. As the title says the game starts up fine but when I press the continue button or I go to load a save the game goes to the load screen but eventually becomes unresponsive.

This could be because of the most recent patch but im not 100% sure although this problem has only just started occuring recently and I've already played about 30 hours of pillars of eternity without incident.

Please review the MUST READ... thread and include the information requested there (output_log file and dxdiag for Windows users). Such information will allow others to determine what the cause of your problem is.