Windows 7 gets an error with this info:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: strife-ve.exe
Application Version: 2.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 573aad4a
Fault Module Name: StackHash_0a9e
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789


What could be causing the crash? It doesn't even get to any screens. Double click, and fails.
Thanks!

a year late but if you are getting crashes and using galaxy, disable the galaxy overlay/notifications

Fortunately for you, you can now run Strife: Veteran Edition in the following source ports, so that should solve the problem:

1) GZdoom:

https://zdoom.org/downloads

2) Chocolate Strife:

https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Downloads

For GZdoom, make sure that the following 3 files are in the same directory as their respective source ports' executables:

strife1.wad
voices.wad
sve.wad

Edit 5/5/2018: Chocolate Strife only requires the strife1.wad and voices.wad files, as it does not support Veteran Editon, but it does support the original DOS version of Strife. Thanks mk47at for the correction.

Chocolate Strife does not use sve.wad which contains the Veteran Edition changes.