Received thw follow messages:
1) Game works fine under win2k. The only pain is to download the 33MB patch. www.lglass.com/cs/thief2/index.html
2) It runs fine and smooth on my banshee in Win2k (even without any patch)
3) Enabling EAX with a Soundblaster Live with Liveware 3.0 will crash the game. The only workaround right now is to disable EAX support. Creative claims this is a bug with the Thief 2 code, and the publisher will not fix it (unsupported game under W2K)

My system: AMD AthlonXP 1700, Radeon 7500, SB 4.1 Digital, ASUS A7V8X motherboard. Works fine with latest patch. May have to turn V-sync on if game is too fast. EAX works once you get updated drivers from http://www.soundblaster.com (Creative cards)