I am running a fairly old system, so there is a possibility that it is hardware related. Up until this point I don't remember having a freeze crash so consistently on starting ARMA.
I will carry on testing for any.
NVidia Drivers: 326.80 beta
Specs:
W860CU Laptop Base | Win7 64bit | Core i7 Q720 1.60ghz | 8GB | Geforce GTX260M | SSD 256GB 830