Hello,

Window XP 32 bits

Blend (textures are packed) :
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/17617

Most of the object and setup has been made with blender-2.64-r52250-win32 from the buildbot from a few days ago.
Today i cleaned up the blend from now unecessary packed files and references then saved it, this time it was done in stable release 2.64a .

It is a torus with a material (for Blender Internal, not Cycles) that has a texture (packed) used for the main diffuse and a texture (packed too) used for bump map , in the Texture panel, the size of those textures has been changed to fit what i needed for the render.

In the center of the torus there is a single vertice (resulting of a plane being merged in its center) that has a material set to "Halo" , and near to it a simple lamp.

I downloaded yesterday blender-2.64-r52393-win32 from the buildbot, loaded that blend , pressed the Render button and crashed before the render actually start.
A bit puzzled, i loaded it in blender-2.64-r52250-win32 , pressed the Render button and crashed the same.

I loaded it in the stable 2.64a , pressed Render and it rendered without any problem
I tested with stable 2.63a and no problem too.