Anybody who isn’t having any problem with the game crashing, ignore this post. But for anybody who has had the DirectShow/DirectDraw bug, a fix has been discovered!
Simply download the K-Lite Codec Pack from the link at the bottom of this post (Probably just the Basic download, but if you’re running a 64-bit system, whatever that is, it seems you’ll want the one at the bottom). So for anybody who needs this, I hope it works for you as it did for somebody else, and have fun!
http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm