i can play other renpy games just fine. i boot this up and it takes forever to load then i start the game and get to play until i try and open the menu and the game just utterly craps out. if i try and open a menu on the main menu other than start the game lags to utter oblivion then crashes. advice?
Check the sub folder named "game". There should be a file named "use_fixed_resolution_720x.txt" inside it.
Rename it to "use_fixed_resolution_720.txt", removing the x at the end of the filename. This will switch the game back to the old resolution logic. Are you still running windows 7 btw?
About translations to other languages.
Fully translating the game might be possible, but you would have to use different logics in several places. The standard renpy translation way doesn't work for the dynamic texts used in HI.
Then there is the very bad effort to benefit ratio. Almost everyone can read english nowadays. At least for basic stuff.
All that considered, there will never be an official translation of the game to any other language than english.
If you want to translate the game yourself, feel free to do so. I'm not stopping you or have anything against it.