I use Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, and Windows XP Professional. With my old Pentium III-600 system, I've found that Windows 98 SE is far better for gaming, some older drivers actually working better than mmore recent versions. But I suspect it's mainly because drivers are now optimized to work with Windows 2000 and XP's Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), the middleman referred by Xinli. The HAL only functions correctly with fully ACPI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface)-compliant motherboards. My old 440 bx is only partially compliant, and Windows 2000 and XP Pro show in Device Manager as Standard PC vs. ACPI installations.

Look in Device Manager and double-click or expand Computer. If it shows as ACPI, then the latest drivers should work very well for you in a gaming environment, even with Windows 2000.

Allyn