Lets address the easiest question first... performance of Win2K Server... I've stuck with it because the majority of my code is server stuff. I only have one real driver issue and that relates to my soundcard (Yamaha SW1000XG). Apart from that, I've not had any real problems playing games. The only thing that does crop up occassionally is stuff like periodic services... you'll notice minor slow down from time to time whilst playing, but overall, its great.

Performance... I've tried various configurations and I can't get a playable game. If you want me to run some tests to try and rule things out, I can do that for you, just email the exe's and instructions to me at athena at outer hyphen reaches dot com and I'll post the results in this thread.