Crash Loading a New Game

Game crashes immediately following the loading screen when trying to create a new game.  Completely hard locks my machine.  Tried it fullscreen and windowed, neither made a difference.  No save game or zip files were created.  Previous to updating to the early release version, I removed Beta 4.0 from the machine and installed fresh last night.  Never ran into this with the previous beta versions.

debug.err:

http://pastebin.ca/1923711