Took me a little while to understand that my own crashes were just controller/driver conflicts.

Might be useful for whomever looks in the thread in the future to mess around in the device manager and disabling HIDs to figure out what's causing the conflict.

EDIT 2:
Nevermind, it's got to be more complicated than that. Seems to be crashing with just one controller active now.

Can't expect much else from old games I suppose.

Same issue on my side. Haven't found a fix yet.

In my case, the game also keeps crashing when using the dinput.dll.

I ended up using antimicro which allows to map controller keys to keyboard keys. Works like a charm.

You need to start the program as administrator, apply your desired mapping and then start the game. But don't close antimicro as commands are only forwarded as long as the program stays open.