Motion sickness and framerate when gaming

[Flake87]

I certainly suffer from this, especially if I watch other people playing games on consoles, I'm sure I'm not the only one as there are plenty of other posts on the net, but I have found this interesting pseudo scientific video on the issue

 

[Cooper]

I get headaches rather than motion sickness after a while playing low framerate games (20-30fps) and I can get motion sickness in first person games,even at smooth high frame rates if there is no (or very small) aiming reticle to focus on.

 

[The Asgard]

I have discovered that altering the FOV can make a big difference to motion sickness.
Since moving to ultra wide i have suffered very little with this problem.

I really struggled with half-life, many moons ago.

 

[adidan]

Did you get it while writing the title to the thread?

 

[StarShock]

I find that tuning field of view to match how far you sit from the screen helps. If you're sitting further away you narrow the field of view and if you're closer you can widen it. That's might be why some people get it worse with console games, sitting far from a tv with a wide field of view. Got to say for me I almost never get it from playing, but do suffer if I watch someone else play

 

[Flake87]

Did you get it while writing the title to the thread?

Not the first time I've misspelled a title, shame is once posted you can't edit the title.

 

[Marsman]

Thread creator can edit the title. It's under 'thread tools' on the right.

 

[adidan]

Not the first time I've misspelled a title, shame is once posted you can't edit the title.

I think you can, I meant my post as a pointer rather than a troll.

Edit: ^ Seems you can. Huzzah.

 

[BubbySoup]

I get motion sickness if I can't turn head bobbing off. Other than that I'm fine. The only exception to this is when games try to simulate drunkenness by stretching out the field of view massively or exaggerating the head bobbing

 

[Nasher]

Just don't try an FPS in VR

 

[Stanners]

Not the first time I've misspelled a title, shame is once posted you can't edit the title.

Fixed

 

[Flake87]

Thread creator can edit the title. It's under 'thread tools' on the right.

Yay! Thanks for that, I wasn't aware it could even be done !

 

[adidan]

Yeah i'm not sure i'd call it motion sickness but my brain and eyes can have a disagreement about what's going on on the screen.

Can give me a bit of dizziness/headache when my brain decides it's not convinced by movement that isn't real movement.

 

[Nelly]

I really struggled with half-life, many moons ago.

The only game so far I've experienced motion sickness is also with Half-Life 2, it didn't stop me completing it all the way through twice, second time for the achievements.

I can't really judge on other games, I've got 400 games on Steam and only got around to playing around 15 of them so far.