Yep, it seems like there is a way to run CivII on Win2k, at least for me.
What happened to me was that, having the CD in the drive and starting CivII at first caused a crash. As I discovered on this forum, the way to fix the crash is to run the WinG install from the CD. What you *shouldn't* do, however (I'm told) is run the Video for Windows setup.
Having done this, I got a blank screen when I started CivII. Again, reading the forum, I saw someone suggesting that it would work without the CD in the drive. It did. Taking the CD out gives you CivII working apparently perfectly, but without music (and maybe without videos).
However, I've now discovered that by simply hitting ENTER when you see the blank screen, you can get CivII working perfectly WITH music. The mistake I made before was to be too clever and ALT-TAB to the main CivII startup screen while leaving the blank screen hanging there. This causes weird texts to appear and bad things to happen.
The only things that still don't work for me are the videos, i.e. the Wonders of the World videos and the emissary animations. The game doesn't crash though.
Hope this helps.
David Pritchard
