The patches I had in mind above are the SP1 patch and Win2000 compatibility if you don't yet have them. You can get to both from Start | Windows Update. People had a lot of trouble running any PC games until these patches came out. It's not game related but I'd recommend getting all the critical updates that patch security holes in the OS.(posted 9026 days ago)I'm not sure whether the Win98 boot disk trick will work. I suspect it largely depends on whether your sound card is old enough to still accept environment variable strings etc. With a 40 Gb hard disk you might consider creating a dual boot system - 98 for games and 2000 for everything else. With some careful partitioning of the hard disk you can still have access to most of your data through either OS (at a sacrifice for giving up NTFS data partitions for FAT though).