Atomic Heart motion sickness

[PitterPatter]

Hi all,

I installed this from GP at the weekend on the recommendation of fellow forum members but i had to stop playing as it was making me feel slightly unwell.

Something about the motion just did not agree with me at all so i went into the settings and changed the shake intensity option but it didn’t work. Very few games cause me to have this reaction (the first time i ever experienced it was playing the ice track on SNES Mario Kart as a kid).

Has anyone else here had this issue and were you able to resolve it? The game seemed quite good so I’d like to go back to it.

I’m hoping there’s a setting i can alter which will help.

 

[PitterPatter]

Ice track? Rainbow road you mean? Lol.. That track was a puke fest

I’ll caveat this by saying we’re going back 3 decades when I couldn’t tell you what i did 3 days ago… but i could swear there was a separate snow/ice track on mario kart? I remember rainbow road as i hated it for different reasons (i was crap at it).

Edit: you’ve got me googling this now! Was it called Vanilla Lake?

 

[PitterPatter]

Increase FOV in game and disable chromatic aberration. The latter makes the edges of things blurry with a false almost glare like colour pattern.

A guide should be easy enough to find on Google I'm on my phone now so can't link easily but the fov is usually changeable in game and the chromatic thing will be a a line edit or putting a new in the settings config file.

As a long-term sufferer of motion sickness from certain games, here's a few tips:

* Widen the FOV to somewhere between 90-120 if the game allows, via the FOV slider in settings if the game has this. A lot don't, especially console ports, but sometimes you can edit a .ini file to hardwire the FOV, or install a mod.
* Disable visual special effects like camera shake / vibration, motion blur, chromatic aberration etc.
* Get your FPS as high as you're able. 60+ FPS is where things always improve for me.
* Switch to third person perspective if the game allows (a lot of first person shooters don't allow this of course).
* Zoom out your view as much as the game allows. Sit back from the monitor as much as you can.
* Avoid a play style that involves too much jumping around madly or constant fast camera swings.

If you feel the sickness starting, don't be tempted to keep on playing in the hope it'll pass. It most likely won't and might make you feel ill for several hours after stopping. Soon as you feel it beginning, just stop.

Good luck!

Thank you both, so the FOV and chromatic aberration will be my first port of call then the shake/blur.

Really appreciate the detail, very helpful. @Cern yeah i made that mistake the other day in trying to play thru it but i gave up after about half an hour as i could feel it was going to ruin my evening otherwise.

Strange that it’s only some games that cause it.

 

[PitterPatter]

out of interest, have you (or anyone in the same boat) tried VR?

I tried PSVR (1st gen) when my nephew got it for xmas a few years back. I appreciate its at the more basic end of VR kit but it was horrible - both myself and my sister felt nauseous after it.

 

[PitterPatter]

did you do anything brutal ? as you need to build up your VR legs
so easy stuff, not like racing games, rollercoasters etc
simple things like "first steps" ?

As recall it was the underwater thing with the shark. Then something where we were walking - i think it was resident evil. The shark thing was ok but as soon as walking was involved I was ready to puke.