togainu no chi issue

i recently downloaded togainu no chi. my locale is set to japanese, the game is mounted with daemon tools, and i followed the instructions for the update and english patch.

the game runs fine for the most part, but when a dialogue box comes up such as when closing the game, saving, or loading a save, the game freezes, and i can only close it with task manager. it lets me select an option, but once the box is gone, it freezes.

i have tried restarting my computer as well as uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

i am using windows 8. any help would be greatly appreciated.