Crash on startup, Windows 8.1, GTX 550 Ti v331.82

I am running "Beta Build: 58772" according to the PA Launcher. (None of the installed EXE files have useful version information, i.e., VERSIONINFO resources.)

Windows 8.1, x64.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti, driver version 331.82.

Event Viewer reports:

Faulting application name: pa.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x52b23701
Faulting module name: CoherentUI64.dll, version: 1.5.3.0, time stamp: 0x5250831c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000003b213
Faulting process id: 0xff4
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceffb055efdce9
Faulting application path: D:\Program Files (x86)\Planetary Annihilation\PA\bin_x64\pa.exe
Faulting module path: D:\Program Files (x86)\Planetary Annihilation\PA\bin_x64\CoherentUI64.dll
Report Id: 9476ae16-6ba3-11e3-be9e-20cf3024f52c
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: ​

DxDiag.txt attached.

`procdump -w pa.exe` minidump can be downloaded from: https: //dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8943881/PA_131222_232750.dmp

I see you have pretty recent drivers. Did you restarted your system after last driver update?

Yes.

I realized I was running old drivers, so I updated them and rebooted (to see if that would fix the problem) before posting the crash report.

Ok it's fine. I don't see any standard reason that might cause your crash.

But it's Coherent UI crash and I'm don't have pre-made instructions for submitting those. I'm PMed you so if you want to help with investigating your problem I'll waiting for answer.

graphic driver reboot is no longer necessary at all on windows, especially with nvidia.

Theoretically yes, but I'm process about 5-20 tech support threads on Steam every day and there was at least 5 players who have to reboot before updated drivers start work properly. They all had Nvidia GPUs.

were these people using the steam driver updater? as that would make sense.

No. Isn't steam updater for AMD only?

huh apparently. for me it just opens the nvidia website.