So, has anyone actually gotten Freelancer to render in the background while in windowed mode? I have dual monitors, so this feature would be really useful for me to do my usual trade runs and surf the internet and do other stuff in the meantime with Freelancer rendering in the background so I can see what's going on. This little change in the game would mean a lot to me.
Does Freelancer Account Manager allow for gameplay in windowed mode while it's not in focus, though? Say, the game is playing in windowed mode, then I move the mouse cursor out of the window and do other things, will the game continue to play or will the frame freeze? That's the issue for me; I know you can just play in windowed mode with the -w command in the shortcut properties.
I just ended up making a virtual machine on VMWare and running Freelancer on that. Not the most elegant method, but it did solve my problem, so I guess that's what's gotta be done.