Game stops working between startup load bar and title menu screen

[Venusgate]

Hey KSPers,

Had a sudden bug jump up on me today.

I wish I could give you a log, but KSP isn't generating one for this crash.

Basically, I load up the game. It goes through the usual 30-60 second loadbar, and just as the "loading" orbits in the right lower corner show up, the mem usage jumps from 2.5 GB to 3.2GB+ and windows takes over and says it's stopped working.

The only thing I've changed recently is installing Dmagic's modlets, tempgagekiller and portraits, and i've played the game one session since then (which ended in the VAB freezing out since i accidentally clicked on a part heavy radial assembly and was trying to ctrl+z my oops)

Any of this ringing any bells?