Play the game on both of my computers!

I have desktop running Win7 and the program runs ok aafter some tweaking, But don't use custom cursor or it will crash! On my laptop runnibg Win7 it won't runn at all no matter what setting I try to use! I get an error message whille the screen flashes uncontrolably. Exception: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005) at address 00580CD1 in thread 2DB0
Module: game.exe
Logical Address: 0001:0017FCD1

0018EEBC 00580CD1 0001:0017FCD1 game.exe
Params: 0251DD50 00000000 40E00000 0018EFAC

StackWalk failed (error 299)

EAX:00000000 EBX:0251DD50 ECX:025416E8 EDX:00000000 ESI:025416E8 EDI:025416E8
EIP:00580CD1 ESP:0018EEB0 EBP:0018EEBC
CS:0023 SS:002B DS:002B ES:002B FS:0053 GS:002B
Flags:00210246

Windows Ver: NT 5.1 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
DDraw Ver: 6.1.7600.16385
DSound Ver: 6.1.7600.16385

Product: Arctic Quest 2
Version: 2.0
Time Loaded: 00:00:13
Fullscreen: Yes
Primary ThreadId: 2DB0

SetNamesSecurityInfo failed for file C:\ProgramData\Alawar Stargaze\String "$254" has not found!\saves/profiles.xml with error 123: file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

This is not the first time I have had problems with game downloads from here. It's as though developers are tryhing to update old programs to run on newer systems and using us as guinea pigs to see if their "Tweaks" have worked! Some aren't as bad as others but more and more rhey seem to be getting worse. I'm sad because Alawar has been one of the better developers on this site and I can usually depend on their games to run on my Win7 Systems without doing much if anything to run the program once it's downloaded.