Feel sick while playing FPS games

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Hi,

I love playing my PC games but for as long as I can remember (back to the days of doom/quake) i've been unable to play FPS games because after about 10 minutes i start to feel sick. Almost like a motion sickness. This really really annoys me. At the moment i'm playing battlefield 3 but have to take breaks every 10 minutes because i start to feel like i'm going to barf.

Does anyone else get this ? I'm fine with games like wow, it's only FPS's.
 
It's to do with FOV. When gaming at a PC you sit closer to the screen than say with a console. Some games give you the option to alter this setting to compensation for the distance, others do not, hence why you feel sick.

Rage is the latest game that made me feel bad after about half an hour. But you can tag a command on the end of the launcher to compensate. I believe in BF3 there is a setting in the options for this? (may be wrong). Try and set it to a value of 90 or 95 and see how you get on.

I always disable stuff like motion blur and head bob if possible as that seems to set me off too. :(

Hope this helps.
 
Firegod said:
It's to do with FOV..
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Not always, some people like myself suffer because either the game is too dark thus you have to concentrate harder while in game moving or there is too much movement in the game from side to side. Like Dead Island with all that swaying from side to side as you attack. Love it when people have a one set answer as it's correct for everything :(

Borderlands for example even with a Fixed FOV, the zooming in while running can make most people feel ill.
 
Weird coincidence: I just gave myself motion sickness playing around with fov in skyrim and then this thread pops up. (I put it on 120+ and ran around caves spinning the camera wildly. That's what I do on a Sunday evening.)

Anyway, as said above, you can try to adjust fov to something that looks natural to you. For some people, having something fixed to look at can help, so turning off head bob and/or weapon bob may improve matters. Where possible, eg in skyrim;), playing in 3rd person view may help for the same reason: your character will generally remain fixed in the middle of the screen.

In addition, generic 'good practice' with video gaming may also have a positive effect: play in a brightly lit environment and try to keep a good distance from your monitor. Finally, ginger is a traditional remedy for travel sickness; it probably does absolutely nothing, but at least it can't harm.
 
i actually felt quite ill this afternoon when playing killzone 2 on the PS3. ive never had it before on a pc game though and hope its not something thats going to happen more and more! :p
 
Half Life 2 was really bad for this, more so the vehicles. One of the main reasons I've never finished the game since 2003/4. I quit at the hovercraft part. Ugh that was nasty. Terrible terrible cold sweats.
 
Half Life 2 is the only game that makes me feel sick after playing more than 30 minutes, I wonder what it is with this game that does it? it's like motion sickness.

Played the original EverQuest 32 hours straight in one session without feeling bad.
 
V F said:
Half Life 2 was really bad for this, more so the vehicles. One of the main reasons I've never finished the game since 2003/4. I quit at the hovercraft part. Ugh that was nasty. Terrible terrible cold sweats.
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This happened to my dad's colleague, so he gave me his copy of Half Life 2 and his steam account :D. Still use it to this day, as I transferred it all to my name.
 
Neil79 said:
Not always, some people like myself suffer because either the game is too dark thus you have to concentrate harder while in game moving or there is too much movement in the game from side to side. Like Dead Island with all that swaying from side to side as you attack. Love it when people have a one set answer as it's correct for everything :(

Borderlands for example even with a Fixed FOV, the zooming in while running can make most people feel ill.
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In that Borderlands example the fov changes when you start running, hence it still being to do with fov. I seem to recall that you could set the fov for running separately, which would help alleviate the symptoms.

But yeah, there's lots more to it than *just* fov. Motion blur, darkness (or even things being overly bright in some games), bob, depth of field (yay, more blurriness!) and god knows what else :/
 
First time in my life i heard of people getting sick while playing games... Never felt anything :-/. Interesting topic to read more about it. Did anyone ever actually puke?
 
FragnaticDeath said:
First time in my life i heard of people getting sick while playing games... Never felt anything :-/. Interesting topic to read more about it. Did anyone ever actually puke?
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Yep , I get it with certain fps games

5 mins feel not to good
10 mins defo queezy
IF I push it 20 mins and Iam puking and have to lay down for a bit
 
Firegod said:
Rage is the latest game that made me feel bad after about half an hour.
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I don't get motion sickness myself but I know it's pretty common amongst gamers. As it happens, id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead admitted he has to take breaks as he suffers from it.
 
Half life 2 was the first I fell ill playing.

Crysis was the same, but taking off head bob and motion blurr made it fine to play.

FOV also does have an impact for me. I still can't play portal 2, even though I was fine with the first.
 
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