I have noticed an issue that I can't seem to fix without going into the much-hated windowed mode. Whenver another window is on top of RIFT, or I am on my second virtual desktop, it simply stops updating both audio and video. After a period of this, when I return focus to the game it stutters the video for a few seconds and creates a lot of audio noise while it catches back up to the current stream.
This issue means that, for example, I cannot hear when the LFG tool pops up an invite while I read a web page, and things like damage parsers cannot be left visible while playing the game.
Does anyone know of a workaround for this issue without running in windowed mode, please?