Game Crashes

[Elemmire]

Game crashes in windowed or full screen mode if you open up anything that gives a windows pop up as well as just any sorta notification. I don't understand how this problem has lasted for 11 years. This is unacceptable on a platform where so many other applications are going to be running and give notifications for updating or whatnot.

And no, I don't want to lower my system's security settings just for FFXI. That's a terrible idea.

[Dragoy]

Teegrins, Elemmire!


It's been nearly 4 years from since I used Windows (happy to have been full-timing Gentoo Linux since 2010 \ö/), but I seem to remember that the 'dimming effect' accompanied with the security pop-up (User Account Control) on certain versions of Windows indeed has the tendency of making the game-client pancake. Hard.

I also seem to remember that there was an option to disable the 'dim' only, without setting the security settings to a lower level. That was on Windows 7.

So that's an option (assuming that I in fact remember correct-like, and that it didn't involve actually lowering the security level in any other way).

Alternatively, upgrade to a different operating system. ^^


Blubb!

[Elemmire]

But this shouldn't be an issue in the first place.. the code for the game shouldn't be so bad that it crashes when another application requires an update and notifies you or if opening certain other applications (some being games, some being tools I use for programming x.x)