Being somewhat of a noob, and learning a LOT from the resident SimV experts, I messed around with overclocking.

I saw on a recent thread that ATI cards can be messed with some and have a sort of a built-in failsafe feature.....so after a bit of playing around with overclockin' and anti-aliasing (the card's, not FSX's[turned FSX's off actually]) I came up with this. {One of more than a few}

I can't believe the changes that overclocking has made!  I now have all of FSX's sliders to max and have yet to run temps past the mid-70s.  I have never seen FSX run so smooth!

Many many thanx and kudos to all of the smart folks here!!!