By Phoenix.Goduro 2012-01-06 03:52:22
This is something that goes back to when FFXI thought it was unfair for someone to alt tab out of FFXI to look stuff up. Changing the focus of FFXI would cause it to shut down.
To look stuff up you would have to have a 2nd PC, or you would commonly see someone type "hold on, logging to check online".
This was before they allowed FFXI to be played in widowed mode (assuming you didn't use 3rd party tools).
They sorta fixed the major issues when they allowed windowed mode, but I'm assuming a screen resolution change will cause you to get kicked out of FFXI.
I would suggest turning off your screen saver, or change the conditions under which it operates.
Screen savers used to be important because CRT monitors could get images burned into them if left with a static screen, so the screen saver would turn on to "save" the screen. We do not have this problem with the technology of today, since all newer displays are LCD (which I'm assuming you have). If you have focus in FFXI, your computer shouldn't go to screensaver anyway...
Moreover, under power management (at least in windows 7) you can tell the display to turn off (which shouldn't affect your game) and while you're at it, you can go ahead and tell it to never put your computer to sleep.
When your computer sleeps, the HDD stops spinning, I think.. and when that happens you're not communicating to POL anymore.
With Windows Media Center... I think if you run ffxi in windowed mode you shouldn't get kicked out of FFXI for having that in full screen, unless it changes your resolution.
Built in windowed mode is accessed from the config tool (when you're not in POL or logged in) by checking the "windowed mode" box.