Hey I have the same rig as you and I have been struggling with adaptive AA too. Have a look here: http://benchmark3d.com/anti-aliasing-iq-performance-comparison-7-types-tested/ 4X adaptive seems to be the best quality/performance ratio, but I've also noticed the missing candle textures :( I don't know how people can be satisfied with FXAA, SMAA or plain MSAA. And I know that SSAA is far too demanding (especially if you have heavily modded your game and/or played with Ugrid settings) I tried and tried to tweak the game and CCC settings but with no success. People seem to have give up on fixing this. Even STEP recommends MSAA or SSAA. Did you have any luck fiinding a workaround ? i5-2500k 4.0Ghz 8 GB RAM Sapphire HD7950 1080/1500