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I ran into a similar problem, only mine went to a black screen. I fixed it by up[censored] my video drivers, Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, downloaded the new drivers from the 3dfx site, all works great now. And it now supports the 3dfx mini GL driver, it only ran in D3D before, and it does suck.

I am running the Sims in 2K w/ the v1.1 patch all works great.

I was using a burned copy, but then the company I work for had a raffle give away of your choice of any software from the Microsoft store, so I figured why not make it legal, I now own my copy. Not installed though. Still running the pirated copy, for evaluation purposes only.

Actually it is just a partioned drive, so swapping is out of the question, but I am planning on buying another drive. Now when I install that new drive, could I put 98 on that drive, w/ out causing any issues, and avoiding a complete format and reinstall. And if so what is the best way?

I think you are right, I have tried everything I can think of. I would like 2K to be installed on a NTFS drive, can 2K be on the secondary drive and still boot, or will I have to settle w/ a fat32 partition?

The problem is 2K is installed on my primary boot drive c:\, this drive is NTFS, windows says it can not find a drive it can write to on the primary boot drive, and quits. How can I install windows on my D: drive.

I have just recently installed Win2K, now the Adaptec 3.5 software for the burner will not work on 2K, it says I need to update to 4.02, the problem is in order to update to 4.02 I need a previous vs of the software installed. Any ideas.......

I have a voodoo3 2000 PCI card, it works great in Glide and Direct 3D, but all programs say that Open GL is not supported. As we all know Open GL is much faster than Direct 3D especially in HalfLife. Any ideas?

Thanks for the input, Easy CD creator 3.5 will not install on 2K though.

Just out of curiosit, how did you get the Velocit 4400 to work good, I have a Velocit 4400 and had to purchase a new video card due to the fact the card would refuse to use 3D acceleration, or the AGP support........ Win 2K would not let me install any new drivers, I also lost the TV out capabilities....

How did you get the software to install, the Sidewinder 4.0 software fails to load on my systme.

I am running the sims w/ win 2K, voodoo 3 2000 PCI, and it runs great, even better than it did in 98.

I to experience issues w/ halflife, the game runs great, but when I press excape to bring up the menu screen, a black screen pops up, if I press exscape again I am back in the game, fine and dandy, just makes saving and quitting the game a little difficult. Win2K AMD k6-3 450 128 MB RAM Voodoo 3 2000 16MB ram running Halflife in Direct 3D, says it does not support the opengl drivers I have.

I highly agree the only problem w/ the 2K upgrade was I had to replace my video card, but hey it was old and needed to be replaced any way. Bonus

I am experiencing the same issue, sometimes it shuts down auto.....Other times I have to manually press the power button.

I would use NTFS, I installed 2K on my comp, 2 partions both fat32, one 98 the other 2K. It ran good for about 6 hours, when I rebooted it returned a non system disk error, then booted up in 98, which was on my second partition. 2K was no where to be found. After I did 1 NTFS partion for 2K and fat32 for 98, since I have not had a problem

The best way to get assistance from MS tech support is to go to the MS Knowledge base, that is where they derive all there answers from any way.

I just looked through the archives and found my answer. No need to reply. Thanks