First off, here is my computer info:
AMD Athlon 700 (Slot A)
Asus K7M
256MB RAM (PC100)
ATI Rage Fury 32MB AGP
2x 20GB Western Digital IDE HDs
6x Pioneer DVD-ROM
Sound Blaster Live! Value
3Com 905B-TX 10/100 nic
SP2, DX8.0a, Critical Updates, and other enhancements from Windows Updates have been installed.
I installed Windows 2000 just today and I have noticed that with gaming (Half-Life and Monkey Island 4), they have been choppy with video playback (cutscenes from Monkey Island 4), sound (Monkey Island 4, Half-Life), and OpenGL / Direct 3D rendering (both games). With my previous operating system, Windows ME, I did not have any of those problems and had smooth gameplay, sound, video playback, etc. I have read a post regarding the same issue with an nVIDIA TNT/TNT2 video card and have tried some of the suggestions there, they didn't work. I have also read some FAQs in ATI, Creative Labs, AMD .. they didn't have anything regarding about this issue.
I've read the TechNet article regarding about DirectX 8.0 and reduced performance: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q278/6/52.ASP
that did not seem to help. I've tried both drivers from ATI (beta and non-beta), those didn't work.
I can go on and on about this (probably already have gone far enough). So .. anyone have a clue how to fix this? I don't really want to go back to ME or have a dual boot =(
