Lately I've had some serious glitches with my gaming computer, and as a
temporary network troubleshooting effort as much as anything, installed a couple
of games on my work computer as a control test. As it turns out, this measure
may be more than temporary, as this machine seems to not only clear up the
problem I was addressing, and plays everything I've tried so far flawlessly, in
spite of this machine's use of Windows 2000 Professional, which Microsoft
readily admits is not very well suited for game playing. Go fig.
Windows 2000 Professional plays games better than any other OS I've ever had.
There are a few older games (that came out before Win2k was released) that I can't get to work under 2K, but every new game runs flawlessly.
I've compared it with WinXP, and 2k just rules. Makes me weep to think that Microsoft is ditching 2K support in favor of eXtreme Pain in just 2 years...