HELP! Cannot run game in windowed mode (Fullscreen mode is 100% fine)

[Coldfire]

An independent programmer tells me that this is to reduce the risk of ranged hacking. It helps prevent a player from locating you from par away and messing with you.

I think the reason is just that the game is optimized for PS3 which doesn't have enough memory to preload character models. The client doesn't need to know the exact location of a character to preload. A "in range" message from the server would suffice for that. Another problem is the lack of async HDD access. Means the game basically stops if it has to load a character.

And about the slowdown of 32bit on 64bit is just not true. Because it's no emulation but a compatibility mode on the cpu and windows on windows 64 handles the system calls like a normal win32.

Edit:
And sadly since Intel's IGP causes so much problems I would recommend to either get a PC or a laptop with AMD CPU(or old generation Intel without IGP) for this game.