Is it possible to have MFAA without the FXAA via NVidia Control Panel?

[Ninja Savior]

Guys, as you know, the only way to have MFAA enabled is by enabling in-game MSAA. The game won't allow us to have MSAA without the blurry FXAA...

So, my question is: If I have all AA options disabled in-game and force both MSAA 2x and MFAA via NVidia Control Panel, will I have the desired MFAA?

[Psychic]

In theory it would work, but only on DirectX9 games.
Most people don't know this, but MSAA from nvidia control panel doesn't work on any DirectX11 game. So what you want is not possible, only with in-game MSAA.

The not so bad thing is that although the in-game MSAA uses FXAA, it's not that blurry. You can see this by comparing screenshots with FXAA and then MSAA+FXAA, the second is much shaper.

[Ninja Savior]

1- That's great information about the DX9/11. Would you be able to point me to the source of this?
2- So you're telling me that FXAA alone is blurrier than MSAA+FXAA? On all games or just this one?

Muito obrigado

[Psychic]

1- For example here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/anti-aliasing-nvidia-geforce-amd-radeon,2868-7.html

"Override only works with DirectX 9 and not the newer DirectX 10/11 code paths."

"The Multisampling setting will apply TAAA to transparent textures at the same number of samples that are currently being employed with standard MSAA—however, this mode only works in DirectX 9."

You can test this easily, just override antialiasing on a DX11 game, you won't see anything different.

2- This is the only game that does that, since it doesn't make much sense to mix MSAA (clean AA) with FXAA (blurry AA), so I don't know. But that's true for this game at least.

[Ninja Savior]

Thanks a bunch, again. I started reading that same article some minutes ago, but I'm still on page 3.