FXAA

[Moorepheus_Oneiri]

Well without getting too deep FXAA is a new anti-aliasing technology that the latest NVIDIA drivers feature (apparently there is an ATI equivalent as well). It boasts comparable quality to MSAA x4 with a 60% reduction in load and non-native support for most games. I've now been running it on StarCraft II as well which doesn't even feature native AA.

[kierie]

I installed the new driver and my fps dropped down to 9 everywhere so I had to rollback I would love to try out the FXAA too

[Laraul]

Well without getting too deep FXAA is a new anti-aliasing technology that the latest NVIDIA drivers feature (apparently there is an ATI equivalent as well). It boasts comparable quality to MSAA x4 with a 60% reduction in load and non-native support for most games. I've now been running it on StarCraft II as well which doesn't even feature native AA.

I have not tried FXAA, and yes I am being pessimistic, but it sounds like marketing more than anything. Do we need another way of performing AA? Are you sure FXAA is even working? Take screenshots of the game (both FFXIV and SCII) with FXAA on and off and do you really notice a difference? I have SCII I don't understand why would think AA is necessarily it looks fine without it. And the built-in method of AA FFXIV uses works fine. Why go to all the work and try to make these work with some foreign mode of AA that may produce unexpected behavior.