So yeah, what the title says. It doesn't even reach the loading screen - just crashes with the standard Windows crash screen. This is the only Steam game, or program in general, that crashes for me in this way.
Here's the error message:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: DCApp.exe
Application Version: 1.0.93.9727
Application Timestamp: 51cdc309
Fault Module Name: MSVCR90.dll
Fault Module Version: 9.0.30729.6161
Fault Module Timestamp: 4dace5b9
Exception Offset: 0003fd97
Exception Code: c0000417
Exception Data: 00000000
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1049
Additional Information 1: 1296
Additional Information 2: 12964810e49278128ea5122598c2ca78
Additional Information 3: 8510
Additional Information 4: 85105465a546daa32a6bf3711c2ce3bb
My system:
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
ATI Radeon HD 7850
16 GB RAM
Things I've tried: Uninstalling and then reinstalling Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 and 2008 Redistributables, both x64 and x86; updating DirectX; updating ATI drivers. Nothing helps. Like I said, this is the only game or program I experience this kind of problem with.
A shame, since I really wanted to play the beta