Want to make your game look even better? Try this.

I found this whilst perusing the BF3 forums today, tried it out for FF14 and it works! It is a new type of Anti-Aliasing(Smooths jagged edges) called Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing when applied to FF14 it removes a LOT of the shimmering you see on objects whilst moving and makes everything smooth without a noticeable performance drop at high!

I don't care about the legality of this so please don't clutter the thread on whether you think it is right to use it or not, all i know is it makes the game look tons better and i can't see a performance hit. Below are comparison shots, the download link and some instructions.

Comparison Shots(original res 1980x1080)
SMAA Off
SMAA On
**Looks like photobucket downsized the images, you can still see the difference by zooming in though

Download
injectSMAA

How to install:

1. Download files from link above
2. As FF14 is a DX9 game copy the files from the folder "d3d9" to your FF14 Installation folder(Mine is: C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV)
3. Make sure all other AA is turned off(Game/CCC/Nvidia CP)
4. Run the game!

Original BF3 Thread

You can also toggle this on/off ingame by hitting pause!

Tested this and I must say I'm amazed how good it looks. Haven't tried the "ultra" setting yet, but will definately try it later on.

This method is also completely legal, since it's nothing but a DirectX modulation. It doesn't hoax with anything in the game except the AA. (The font might become a tad grainy, but still very readable)

One question, is it on by default? I don't have a PAUSE/BREAK key on my keyboard.

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Originally Posted by Neptune

One question, is it on by default? I don't have a PAUSE/BREAK key on my keyboard.

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Yes it will be on by default every time you load the game.

this can even make 2x look pimp lol

your video card should have that stuff built into the nvidia setting/ati catalyst programs you dont need an external one.

how do you download it? I get the download msg, but it won't save

catalyst control center has a tick box for morphological but there's no tooltip and half a dozen other settings in the same area :/

Ill give this a shot because I don't play windowed so logging to desktop off and on trying to do testing is a nightmare.

Can someone post a screenshot of it please?
Or two, one with it and one without..:)

I'd like to see the difference before I consider downloading it.

I figured it'd be worth posting. Something in my setup is incompatible. The launcher just crashes instantly when this is in the XIV folder. Remove it and launches normally. Maybe i'll just try the built in option in CCC

"The procedure entry point Direct3DCreate9Ex could not be located in the dynamic link library d3d9.dll"

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Can someone post a screenshot of it please?
Or two, one with it and one without..:)

I'd like to see the difference before I consider downloading it.

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The OP included pics...

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Originally Posted by KitCat

I figured it'd be worth posting. Something in my setup is incompatible. The launcher just crashes instantly when this is in the XIV folder. Remove it and launches normally. Maybe i'll just try the built in option in CCC

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This happened with me initially, unless I ran ffxivboot.exe directly. Found out it was the shortcut not having the "Start In" path specified.

Ah I see. I thought it might just be radeon pro incompat. Forgot I use it to force crossfire and high priority :/ For some reason I can't even pick morphological option in radeon pro, greyed out. And CCC seems to auto revert every time I exit the game so I don't think it's functioning.

I'll give this a shot tomorrow morning. Only a few hours and want to try to pug the moogle quest XD

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Originally Posted by ispano

This happened with me initially, unless I ran ffxivboot.exe directly. Found out it was the shortcut not having the "Start In" path specified.

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I tried that and it still does't work for me.

What a substantially small difference this third party app makes.

Forget that.

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Originally Posted by Answa

I tried that and it still does't work for me.

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Considering your issue and the one Kit had are different, i'm not surprised.

Just for a reminder, those using the transparent AA from nvidia control should turn it off when using this injector

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

What a substantially small difference this third party app makes.

Forget that.

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Yeah because standard AA is so much better amirite? GFY

For those having problems you obviously need all other AA turned off in CCC or the nvidia panel, and i launch the game from ffxivboot, not sure how this compares to ATIs MLAA either.

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Originally Posted by LeSunreaver

This method is also completely legal, since it's nothing but a DirectX modulation. It doesn't hoax with anything in the game except the AA. (The font might become a tad grainy, but still very readable)

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I'd definitely like to hear an official response on this before i try it

Ah yeah this is nice..my graphics card been using this. :) don't think it's an app...most newer cards have this feature.

idk im not really seeing much of a difference

Tried it out - yeah it crashes if you use the default installer-made launcher shortcut. Open up FFXIVBoot directly and it works.

I have to start making screenshots for myself to see if there's a difference, but I can't tell. I'd love to get "free" AA, since the claim of this tool is to give some form of AA with little to no performance hit.

Must do more researching.

The only difference I notice is that it slightly smooths things out, with a tradeoff of an over all blur to everything. That and strange white 80% transparent boxes near the bottom of those screens.

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Originally Posted by LeSunreaver

Tested this and I must say I'm amazed how good it looks. Haven't tried the "ultra" setting yet, but will definately try it later on.

This method is also completely legal, since it's nothing but a DirectX modulation. It doesn't hoax with anything in the game except the AA. (The font might become a tad grainy, but still very readable)

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Which is not legal. Like most of visual hacks in game, they are just "DirectX modulation". As soon as you start injecting anything it's not legal anymore.

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Originally Posted by Llewelyn

I'd definitely like to hear an official response on this before i try it

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To me it's just logical, it's a graphic modulation. Were you banned in XI for using .Dats of a mithra's boobs? Nope.

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Originally Posted by Antipika

Which is not legal. Like most of visual hacks in game, they are just "DirectX modulation". As soon as you start injecting anything it's not legal anymore.

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Why wouldn't it be legal? It does nothing but changes the AA. For some, if not all, it's just a question of game performance. It's not like you get some kind of "OH HAI NAO U C MI, NAO U DOWNT!!".

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Originally Posted by Llewelyn

I'd definitely like to hear an official response on this before i try it

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Don't hold your breath.

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Originally Posted by Antipika

Which is not legal. Like most of visual hacks in game, they are just "DirectX modulation". As soon as you start injecting anything it's not legal anymore.

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According to this logic, forcing AA through the Nvidia and ATI control panels is also "illegal".

It looks worse than 8xMSAA and uses more resources on my 260GTX =/

edit: nvm that, I forgot to turn off AA before starting it. Ultra looks as good as 8xQMSAA, about the same performace too, but this one also tries to AA text which looks rather weird (look at the artifacts on the name). High looks worse than 8xQMSAA, look at the stairs.

Screenshots [7z]

P.S.: can't get exact fps with SMAA cause this method kills both fraps and afterburner ovelays (and their screenshot feature, which is another con for me)

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To me it's just logical, it's a graphic modulation. Were you banned in XI for using .Dats of a mithra's boobs? Nope.

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Actually you were if you got reported after bragging (same deal about Windower), as you're tampering with game data which is against ToS (of any company, some aren't strict on it but you CAN get banned for it.)

This is why updates and file checks on POL had a habit of replacing custom .dats because they can check the hash of your dats.

Injecting anything into a game not from the company can result in bans/prosecution (depending on what it's doing) but graphical tweaks and etc companies aren't strict about.

This does nothing

is it just me cuz i see 0 different in the 2 screenshots.... none at all.

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Actually you were if you got reported after bragging (same deal about Windower), as you're tampering with game data which is against ToS (of any company, some aren't strict on it but you CAN get banned for it.)

This is why updates and file checks on POL had a habit of replacing custom .dats because they can check the hash of your dats.

Injecting anything into a game not from the company can result in bans/prosecution (depending on what it's doing) but graphical tweaks and etc companies aren't strict about.

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That's like getting executed for smoking marijuana.

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Originally Posted by Xeno

That's like getting executed for smoking marijuana.

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Ignoring the fact that's illegal in some places still as of today, I don't see what execution has to do with anything? Unless game companies have decided you can tamper with the data all you want in the past 10 years it's been a pretty big part of ToS's to not tamper with game data by injection method, especially MMORPGs -- Thus why some games have built in mod support.

I'd like to point out that the original BF3 thread appears to have been deleted.

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Originally Posted by Llewelyn

I'd like to point out that the original BF3 thread appears to have been deleted.

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Yep, was deleted when people on Rift forums mentioned it as well, however I suppose this is why the OP had this in it:

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I don't care about the legality of this so please don't clutter the thread on whether you think it is right to use it or not

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No reason to mention that if it wasn't against a ToS in some way -- It's not going to give you gameplay advantage or anything, injection methods are highly looked down upon.

Hope my laptop can use this

not working for me. am I supposed to turn something on?

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is it just me cuz i see 0 different in the 2 screenshots.... none at all.

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One is ever so slightly bigger than the other. There! difference!

This SMAA injection make in-game font look really bad... I think I'll stick with the old AA ; ;

Unfortunately it makes my game extremely prone to crashing. So much so that it will almost always immediately crash if I do almost anything at all.