Hello Mike, and thanks for helping me out here.
The link you gave me sums up the picture now as a whole. The sites and forums I was reading had people responding so much it was hard to follow. Different answers a many. Going based on the information there, my video card with 512mb of memory would benefit from settings from 128mb to 256mb aperture size (supposedly). I do have issues with stutters, so I will experiment with the bios settings. My machine is less than desirable for anything FSX. I just want to try to get a bit of smoothness with my frames locked at 20 so I can least enjoy the aircraft I fly more.
Thanks for your help