I suffer badly with motion sickness in current games, to the point where anything other than WoW or SCII will make me feel so rough that I have to go to bed to sleep it off.
This hasn't always been the case though. As a teenager I played A LOT of games. I played Doom and Duke3D when they first came out and pretty much every other classic since then. I was even in a Unreal Tournament clan at one point and used to make Custom maps for Half-Life.
At first I thought it was just FPS games that were the problem so I've avoided them, however I suffered the same problem this weekend while playing Batman: Arkham Asylum (3rd Person). It's not limited to PC gaming either. I have the same problem on consoles. Super Mario Galaxy nearly killed me!
I've tried many different things like sitting further back, making sure there is enough light in the room etc....Travel Sick pills do kind of work...however they make you drowsy!
So I started to think back to the last game that I was able to play all the way through without any problems. That got me thinking about the hardware setup I had while playing though games....which then lead me to start thinking that maybe it's my monitor that's the problem!
In the past, most of my gaming was done on CRTs. I do remember playing a fair bit on my first LCD (a black Hitachi thing that was getting great reviews on here).
Since then I've had a NEC LCD20WGX2 and my current Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP (both 16:10 I think). I don't recall ever playing, or being able to play on these monitors without feeling rough afterwards.
Looking at reviews of the 2408WFP (and the 2407WFP before it) that might be a ghosting issue and a slight input lag problem. Could this be the cause of motion sickness?
Would upgrading to a faster screen with lower input lag make any difference?
I want to play BF3!!
This hasn't always been the case though. As a teenager I played A LOT of games. I played Doom and Duke3D when they first came out and pretty much every other classic since then. I was even in a Unreal Tournament clan at one point and used to make Custom maps for Half-Life.
At first I thought it was just FPS games that were the problem so I've avoided them, however I suffered the same problem this weekend while playing Batman: Arkham Asylum (3rd Person). It's not limited to PC gaming either. I have the same problem on consoles. Super Mario Galaxy nearly killed me!
I've tried many different things like sitting further back, making sure there is enough light in the room etc....Travel Sick pills do kind of work...however they make you drowsy!
So I started to think back to the last game that I was able to play all the way through without any problems. That got me thinking about the hardware setup I had while playing though games....which then lead me to start thinking that maybe it's my monitor that's the problem!
In the past, most of my gaming was done on CRTs. I do remember playing a fair bit on my first LCD (a black Hitachi thing that was getting great reviews on here).
Since then I've had a NEC LCD20WGX2 and my current Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP (both 16:10 I think). I don't recall ever playing, or being able to play on these monitors without feeling rough afterwards.
Looking at reviews of the 2408WFP (and the 2407WFP before it) that might be a ghosting issue and a slight input lag problem. Could this be the cause of motion sickness?
Would upgrading to a faster screen with lower input lag make any difference?
I want to play BF3!!

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