horrendous FPS!

Man, I have hit nervanna or whatever it is that is like awesome, totally. I downloaded the latest nVidia 196.21 drivers and followed Nick's advice to the letter and I'm flying FSX with a pretty constant 30 FPS now. Before my performance was chug-a-lug at best and I was ready to throw in the towel on this sim. FS9 is OK but FSX with graphics turned up is a keeper! It still slows a bit at large busy airports so I have a graphics setting saved for those times that is the stock "Very Low" selection from the graphics tab. I am done with moving a slider one notch, testing, moving another notch, repeat crud. That is for the birds. I have let FSX decide what settings are best from the dropdown. Nicks settings work pretty well for now though and I am very happy. Here's to blue skies!