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.