I agree with the criticism here. One major reason that DayZ became popular is because it was built on a military simulator with excellent combat. Changing this now cheapens the experience for new players and forces retrograde design on those of us that paid to receive a polished version of the game we already enjoyed.

Turns out that returning to the Default Layout for HUD elements fixed it. This can be marked as resolved.

Issue just happened again on .61 EXP at 2:10pm EST on American Centraleast 0-2. Played for about an hour to an hour & 1/2, with the server mostly full, when the game suddenly froze and stopped responding in Windows. The screen went completely white and I had to use task manager to force it to close. No error message.

I have now tried the .61 EXP, crash did not occur. I followed your recommendation of deleting the specified path, it did not help.