Almost always after a battle, or just in an area with enemies, the audio would begin to crackle and there is minmal input delay. A CPU core is also permanently at 100% and the game sometimes freezes for a few seconds.

I did the following to fix this:

1. Download the XAudio2 NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.XAudio2.Redist/
2. Extract the file "build/native/release/bin/x64/xaudio2_9redist.dll" from the package and place it into your game directory, same place as "kuro.exe", and rename it to "xaudio2_9.dll"
3. Add the above launch settings in Steam