First of One wrote:


In the end you just have more choices. An analogy would be volume control.
Do you use the slider in Windows or the knob on your speaker? Why would you
pick one over another?

In lieu of what you just wrote, your analogy fails since a volume
control will adjust the volume globally, identically, no matter which
one you use, the windows slider, or the speaker slider.

A more correct analogy would be "In game FSAA controls are to Driver
Level FSAA controls as Frequency Band Equalization are to Tone Controls."

In game levels of AA are almost always preferable since the application
knows which textures and assets to manipulate for maximum effectiveness,
much like just turning up just the 240Hz band, or the 1K band in audio,
while a global AA setting will AA everything if it needs it or not, much
like the "Treble" or "bass boost" controls.

shrug Maybe it's like USEnet posting, in-game controls are like forum
posts, and global AA is like crossposting. I'll stop now.