Ok everyone who crashes after clicking 'new game', listen up! As crazy as it sounds, the idea of leaving the game open, while crashed, for 20 minutes (roughly) ACTUALLY WORKS! The game obviously has some horrible incompatibility problems and needs a tonne of RAM to load up properly, but if you give it time, it works. MAKE SURE TO PLAY ON WINDOWED, or else you cannot tab out without crashing it fully. Watch a youtube video or something to pass the time, you will know when the game is working because you will hear rather loud rain and thunder! (So it's recommended to have sound on, and at a reasonable volume!)
Please do not post saying "This didn't work" unless you definatly gave it a good 20 minutes or so. If it still doesn't respond after 20-odd minutes I have no other ideas for you, and this is not the place to discuss other ideas!