Games that give you a headache?

mrk · 25 Feb 2010 at 23:37

The Bioshock 2 and Bioshock 1 engines always seem to give me a light headache after playing for an hour+ - it's strange, it's only in these 2 games and I play hour+ long sessions on various other games (TF2/L4D etc) without problem.

What is it with the Bioshock engine that does this!

FWIW I don't suffer any medical condition of any sort and this isn't a medical thread

*tin foil hat*

mrk · 25 Feb 2010 at 23:43

It's only in these 2 games heh, it's something to do with the engine, the way the mouse look moves, it's not as ...natural?...as any other FPS game!

mrk · 26 Feb 2010 at 00:02

Goldfingers said:
Eye strain?

Nope, otherwise al games would have it

My screen is IPS too and calibrated!

mrk · 26 Feb 2010 at 00:04

I would like to change the FOV as it is far too zoomed in, I think this may be the cause of the problem in fact now that you've mentioned it!

mrk · 26 Feb 2010 at 05:40

60fps (vsync) - Vsync off is obviously higher but there is bad tearing in this game. It's the only FPS I need to play with vsync on, again, no other game has tearing either!

Edit*

Temp fix!

In your USER directory under AppData/Roaming find Bioshock2/user.ini and edit the numpad bindings to:

NumPad6=SetFOV 85
NumPad7=SetFOV 90
NumPad8=SetFOV 95
NumPad9=SetFOV 100

I find 100 looks nice and wide, just how I like it.

When you zoom the FOV resets (hence only a temp fix) so you need to press the button for your chosen FOV again.

85:

90:

95:

100:

mrk · 26 Feb 2010 at 14:47

Widescreen FOV is completely wrong yes so needs modification as I posted above.

mrk · 26 Feb 2010 at 15:41

2k games said on their forum they will not be changing the lock 75 FOV which is a bit of an asshat move - it means we're stuck with modding and using FOV patches to sort it I guess.

mrk · 26 Feb 2010 at 16:29

You can /NumPad9=SetFOV 100 to the end of the W bind for example but if the patch does fix it then that should be it.

The forum post said they were not going to fix vertical fov from 75! Hmm.

mrk · 27 Feb 2010 at 13:08

lunarwolf said:
maybe you have problems with more games since this runs on Unreal Engine if not mistaken

Maybe you should read again

The issue is only with Bioshock and Bioshock 2, well not 1 anymore since they fixed it with the patch and now with the FOV hack Bioshock 2 is sort of fixed too.

Just look at my screenshots above and see how zoomed in the fov is, it's totally mind numbing at the defaults for a widescreen gamer.