Did anyone ever get MSAA running in game?

[Crevox]

I know the developers said something like "our engine can't do it" or something, but has anyone managed to force it through inspector or otherwise? If it's doable through inspector (compatibility flag) I'm sure it's doable through the ATI equivalent.

And, no, I'm not talking about SweetFX or FXAA or SMAA or whatever kind of post-processing AA people have got going. I hate post-processing AA.

[Eekiki]

I know the developers said something like "our engine can't do it" or something, but has anyone managed to force it through inspector or otherwise? If it's doable through inspector (compatibility flag) I'm sure it's doable through the ATI equivalent.

And, no, I'm not talking about SweetFX or FXAA or SMAA or whatever kind of post-processing AA people have got going. I hate post-processing AA.

If most people are like me (and I think they are...who wouldn't want to be?) they're waiting for the DX11 client to be released before getting into hardcore graphical tweakery beyond the fake stuff you get from SweetFX.

[Ninix]

You simply can't get MSAA in a DX9 game that uses deferred rendering, such as FF14. MSAA can only be applied after a scene has completely finished rendering in one pass, but with deferred rendering the scene is done in multiple passes with geometry and pixel/vertex shaders being processed at separate times. You can try to force it in your graphics driver's control panel all you want, but all that's doing is wasting performance because the final image displayed on your screen will not be anti-aliased.

DirectX11 does support MSAA with this kind of lighting, but for now you must either live with post-processing AA or use downsampling, which is extremely taxing on performance (since you're basically rendering at a higher resolution and then shrinking it to fit your monitor).

[Crevox]

If most people are like me (and I think they are...who wouldn't want to be?) they're waiting for the DX11 client to be released before getting into hardcore graphical tweakery beyond the fake stuff you get from SweetFX.

I think that most people overestimate what DX11 is actually even going to provide. It's just going to be some shader/lightning enhancements, and depending on how much effort they put into it, it could look exactly the same as the current game.

DirectX11 does support MSAA with this kind of lighting

Oh well. Guess I'll have to wait.