does the demo scene work in the OCU in both modes?
Are you trying to run the oculus in direct mode or extended? It never crashed on me, but direct mode at horrible frame rates. Extended works far better, just slide the windowed Elite over to the oculus and get it lined up just right. My monitors will flicker on and off a few times when I launch Elite but it never crashes. Maybe the graphics drivers are crashing?
Ok i figured it out, it was the opentrack i had on my machine. I just deleted it and i fired up just fine. Now to set it up in game... Thanks for all the posts offering help.