Deadly Premonition

Your game is crashing in the hospital because it's looking for a file in your game's /updata/movie folder that isn't there. It doesn't actually use the video files in there as far as I can tell, except to check to see if they're there. If one is missing, the game crashes. The subfolder /updata/movie/prm can be used as a sort of manifest to see which files are missing. Because the game doesn't actually play those video files, you can resolve the issue by creating a blank text file and saving it with the appropriate name (the first missing file is ScnD03.wmv, names are not case sensitive) and making sure to add the .wmv file extension. If you want, you can even replace the existing .wmv files in the /updata/movie folder (DO NOT REPLACE THE FILES IN /updata/movie/prm) with blank text files saved with the .wmv file extension and cut the game's filesize by over a third.
You're welcome.
P.S. If you find the game crashing for you at the same spot repeatedly, try taking a different route. I find that trying to take Adam's St toward the hospital in Chapter 6 does this.

This is the greatest game of all time. Bad controls? Nope, that's intentional. Cliche dialogue? Wrong again, all part of the genius that is the story. Doesn't work on PC without mods? Well yeah but again, all part of the mystique. So bad it's good? HA, try so good it can never be reproduced. There's no world where a Twin Peaks video game could ever be good, so thank god we have this masterpiece. I saw this entire review in my cup of coffee

This is a godawful game. If you like this, I love you.
I'm convinced there's a Bethesda bug that accidentally launches the .exe file of this game instead of Starfield, hence all of the boiling hate. Either that, or when you double click on "Dragon Age: The Veilguard," this abomination pops up.
This is by far the worst game I've ever played, but it moved me tremendously and actually made me cry.
Zach, we should probably tell them to literally restart their computer to successfully beat the hospital level in Chapter 3, eh?
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Notes to my past-self:
* You will momentarily quit playing the game because of computer crashes. Eventually, you'll figure out that you need to save A LOT. Every chance you can. If a cutscene freezes, just restart your computer and you'll be able to continue. There are a lot of save points, so you won't ever lose much progress.
* The beginning will be really off-putting. Some kinda funny, juvenile things. But you will really start to like the game once it opens up. You get a cop car and get to drive around Greenvale, and you'll really love doing that.
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I feel bad for anyone who wants to play this but can't due to hardware/software issues. Luckily, my computer was able to run it, albeit with several hard crashes/freezes.
The game can be very gruesome and perverted and clunky, and so there's no way I would ever recommend it. But I'm compelled to someday make my own "Let's Play" series on this so more people can experience this game. I would honestly use this as an example of "video games as art". Only 6.1% of all players on Steam have reached the ending, and I'm SHOCKED the number is that high. But I'm really glad I contributed to that statistic.

Good luck playing this version of the game.
If you can get this version working or you want that legal gray spot of "well I payed for the game so I can pirate it". You are in for a bat shit insane Alice steps thru the looking glass mystery horror. Tho dated for even when it was released, it has that spark that makes it worth it.
HOWEVER don't expect this game to work on Steam. The pirates at least have the courtesy of making sure the game runs. Unlike Steam. Ya, anyone that quotes Gabe about piracy being a service problem, you are a fool. Steam was never about service or beating the pirates. It was about convenience to the already paying players. This game proving that.

I like the Twin Peaks inspired story this game have, I also don't think the gameplay is that bad and honestly don't really care about the bad graphics. The real problem of this game is the horrible optimization, the game frequently crashes or freezes when entering or exiting cutscenes.
you can "avoid" that by installing DPFix, placing the folder on the games directory, then going to pack - DPFix.ini - then go to the window options section and change "forceWindowed 0" to "forceWindowed 1" OR "borderlessFullscreen 0" to "borderlessFullscreen 1" (Borderless Fullscreen 1 will overwrite ForceWindowed 1, so choose one of the two). Now if you chose force Windowed, make sure to launch the game, go to "settings" and uncheck "fullscreen". If you chose borderless Fullscreen than you don't need to do that. even though, you can't truly avoid all freezes and crashes but now you can play the game.
Honestly, talking about the game it self, I just love it, it's like if you mix Twin peaks with Shenmue, I just can't describe the game's story but I love not only the plot itself, but also the feeling of solving a criminal case.

love this game its so incredibly broken in the most nostalgic way possible, 10/10 would complete once every 3 years.

Great game minus the occasional crashes. (Its not a bug its a feature!)
Play on windows 98 compatibility if you get stuck somewhere.