Amazing system, FFXIV taking FPS hit. Why?

[Khalus]

Must be an ATI thing, cause my FFXIV config w/ nVidia goes all the way up to 16xQ CSAA:

Here are the options I have:

• 2x MSAA
• 4x MSAA
• 8x CSAA
• 8xQ MSAA
• 16x CSAA
• 16xQ CSAA

Actually I had no idea what each option does over the other {besides making it smoother and less jaggedy} so I looked it up...here is what I found:

You have 8xCSAA, 8xQ, 16xCSAA and 16xQ. 8xCSAA is basically 4xMSAA+ 4 "possible" coverage samples. This means that the lowest quality in a scene could be a minimum of 4xAA, and the highest quality could be 8xAA (This varies depending on the number of coverage samples within the scene). 8xQ is basically 8xMSAA. 16xCSAA follows the same principle as 8xCSAA except that it uses 8 coverage samples meaning the highest quality could be as high as 16xAA. 16xQ isnt 16xMSAA but rather a more higher level of 16xCSAA, with a minimum of 8 multi samples (so 8xAA is the minimum in any given scene) and 8 coverage samples.