Ok, here we go...
Firstly, standard 1042x768, no FSAA:
Standard 1024x768, with forced driver FSAA:
Finally, standard 1024x768, with sofware bloom (glare), using the Shift-PgUp function
As you can see, no AA is just plain ugly. AA smoothes out the pixels. Turing on the bloom creates a nice glare effect, but cancels out the forced driver AA.