Thanks Jonathan. The worst part was the month I spent in that awful hospital bed. It was the worst thing I ever slept in. But the hospital food was better than some good restaurants. My recovery was far better than they expected. I'm 50 and there were people much younger than me who didn't have it to the secarity that I did and they didn't recover as well as I did.
I'm looking forward to learning the sim. I'm thinking that if I use the same settings in nVidia Inspector as I did for IL2, I should get good results since IL2 is also OpenGL. I've been increasing the settings within FlightGear and so far so good with frame rates. The GTS 250 is my backup card and it seems to be handling it well.
I'll post results and screenshots in the appropriate thread.
Thanks again
Bob