I have followed your suggestions and my sim now runs 1000x better. Much smoother. Although now it crashes every time I exit with a fatal error and restarts.
Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb14
Faulting module name: API.DLL, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb58
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00017177
Faulting process id: 0x381c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cef86385e0e286
Faulting application path: T:\FSX\fsx.exe
Faulting module path: T:\FSX\API.DLL
Report Id: b353e6aa-6458-11e3-82a2-240a64393cbb
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
And I get ezdok crashing as well. Event 1000
Thank you for all of your help.