Did anyone ever get MSAA running in game?

[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).