Well I have had this problem for quite sometime now, I had just ignored it and then it has occured to me I could ask you guys. I am running Win2k Pro, I don't know why but it won't run games very well. Most games it wont play the opening sequence or just wont play the game. I have herd of others with this problem, and I thought maybe someone here has figured out how to fix it or knows what to do.

uhh...I never had any problems playing games under win2k, litestep, or litestep running ON win2k. do you get any errors, or something we can use to troubleshoot this?

No errors, it will play some games but any that use openGL or direct3D in full screen it wont run correctly. I will have sound but no video. I am running a Gforce2 GTS pro, with newest drivers, 384 megs of memory, M7VIT pro biostar board, and an AMD Athlon XP 2200+. It all ran perfectly under win98se. I downloaded SP4 for it and that helped with some of the problem but in higher end games it still doesn't work. I also downloaded DirectX 9.0, but still nothing. When I first installed win2k it wouldn't play games so i just didn't play any on it, but now I use my other computer for testing stuff and I don't wan't to loose all my game saves if something goes wrong with it. I talked with a good friend of mine who messes with alot of things like this but he said he never really tried to fix it because he only deals with business networks, they don't really care if it can play games. So the search continues for the answer.

does the game just "crash to the desktop"?

i recall turning the hardware accelleration on sound to get a game to run right.

start/run dxdiag
or
win+R dxdiag

go to the sound tab and turn the accelleration all the way down.

tis worth a shot

No thats not it I already know what the problem is but not how to fix it. The problem is when win2k pro was built they never expected the open gl standard to change nor did they plan on the way the new direct 3d works, so if you use directX 8.0 or higher it will cause problems. To fix this along with some other issues they made sp4. Sp4 should have solved this problem but for some reason it didn't. I got ahold of a friend in california, she will be calling me tomarrow to help. She is also an analist in the army but for computers insted of weapons like me. She deals alot with the NT system so she should be able to help greatly. I wish I could get her to teach me about link 16, but anyway if you all have any more ideas please post. Thank You for the help.

It is fixed, she told me just what to do.I don't know what I did but I followed her steps on the phone and it worked. I do thank all of you for the help, happy to see people willing to help, but it is fixed now. Thank You.