I talked to Microsoft earlier today, they can't help out with crashes related to non-Microsoft products. Was worth a shot anyways.
I managed to get the game working again after a clean install. Might be a problem with the latest 4.7 NET framework that kept getting in the way of something, cuz I...
I probably failed to mention that the error is one that Windows throws out, not the game.
Run from disk, run from installed files, run as administrator, I've done all that.
Thanks for the help so far though, I might have to ask of Microsoft Support in order to figure out what the problem is.
Originally, I only had my Locale set to Japanese, and then ran a Locale Emulator; both of these allowed the game to run. It's after the first scene after which MC meets the fairy (god) in the VN art, where it fades to black and runs into an error:
The thread tried to read from or write to a...