Thanks for advice, but no joy. Novel seems to load and get to stage where the title screen should appear, but I get a white window, then the Microsoft message immediately appears. (As an aside I have the same problem with only one other title called "Ripples").
Hey Sktg,
Sorry that those tips didn't help with getting AHITR up and running.
You could try holding shift while opening the game (holding shift and double clicking the .exe should bring up the options menu, you could try changing the renderer here, restarting and seeing if the game launches).
If by chance you're on an intel cpu (particularly i9) you can try this step (I found on Reddit):
Use Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. This is for Renpy games. Start it and in the first screen you'll have Performance Core Ratio 55x. Change this to 54x. This might help with the crashes.