Seriously! Its been years and there's still no fixes or updates addressing the crashing that occurs after 5 minutes of gameplay (or at startup without compatibility mode).

I managed to get the game working by running it through visual studio 2022. Its a very fun game with wonderful visuals and atmosphere. A few enemies are a bit annoying to deal, in particular the boss enemies.

I initially had a very bad first impression because of not being able to play but there is an easy workaround for that. The game more than redeemed itself. The developers should still fix the crashing issue someday though...