Scorn causing motion sickness

[inflames]

I purchased Scorn in the steam sale at Christmas, I never got round to playing it when it came out. I finally installed it today, straight away I noticed it was making feel off. Iv turned off motion blur and changed a few other graphic setting but not luck. The motion of the game just makes me feel sick. Anyone else had this? Or know of any setting I could try next time I try to give it a go? I didn’t even get to any of the disturbing parts of the game.

I use to suffer from travel sickness as a kid but not as an adult. I have only experienced motion sickness from a one other game in the past and that was the 3rd Dishonoured game.

 

[dave28]

try a different size monitor / TV.

smaller screens give me less motion sickness but it probably varies from person to person.

 

[Noxia]

I’m sure I read somewhere that changing FOV can also impact this, but I’m not sure which way to what.

 

[McCarthy]

I get this really bad in Doom and Half Life 2. I was using an ultra wide monitor at the time and I haven’t tried them since changing monitor but nothing I tried helped at the time.

People say stick with it however no game is worth that feeling for me.

 

[inflames]

I get this really bad in Doom and Half Life 2. I was using an ultra wide monitor at the time and I haven’t tried them since changing monitor but nothing I tried helped at the time.

People say stick with it however no game is worth that feeling for me.

I was fine with Doom eternal, but will admit that after long sessions my eyes needed a rest, haven’t got round to trying dark ages yet. I totally agree no game is worth feeling like that.

 

[inflames]

I’m sure I read somewhere that changing FOV can also impact this, but I’m not sure which way to what.

Was reading that earlier, will try that next time.

 

[hornetstinger]

I get this really bad in Doom and Half Life 2. I was using an ultra wide monitor at the time and I haven’t tried them since changing monitor but nothing I tried helped at the time.

People say stick with it however no game is worth that feeling for me.

I think Half Life 2 gave motion sickness to people as you "glide" rather than walk

 

[NetMan]

Anyone else had this?

I've not played this game but I've had this in the past, my PC is a potato and recently I tried playing RAGE via Geforce Now and only played for a bit before started feeling a bit off so didn't have a long session and went back to Battlefield V instead.

I use to suffer from travel sickness a kid

Me too, apparently I barfed on busses when we went for days out, reading when traveling for some reason made it worse.

I’m sure I read somewhere that changing FOV can also impact this, but I’m not sure which way to what.

Yes increasing the FOV is supposed to help, also only having a short gaming session, I've read of people taking anti travel sickness meds but thats not something I would do some games are just bad for this.

 

[Samueltastic]

Yeah again for fov and I always turn off motion blur too seems to help a lot when i get it in some games

 

[Nemiyen]

I've been a gamer for years and never had motion sickness when playing a game...apart from Reisdent Evil 7 on the PS4! I thought it was the apple and cinnamon gin I was drinking.

Played again later and had the same problem, changing the FOV and turning off motion blur and head or camera bobbing seemed to fix it and I managed to complete the game.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

I purchased Scorn in the steam sale at Christmas, I never got round to playing it when it came out. I finally installed it today, straight away I noticed it was making feel off. Iv turned off motion blur and changed a few other graphic setting but not luck. The motion of the game just makes me feel sick. Anyone else had this? Or know of any setting I could try next time I try to give it a go? I didn’t even get to any of the disturbing parts of the game.

I use to suffer from travel sickness as a kid but not as an adult. I have only experienced motion sickness from a one other game in the past and that was the 3rd Dishonoured game.

Not played scorn but in general with motion sickness you want to feel anchored to stable parts of your environment so the movement in the screen stays stable, some general tips my friends susceptible to motion sickness recommend.

• Screens small in your vision, moving physically back from the screen, pushing the screen back further on your desk, or switching out if you're using something absolutely massive, to a physically smaller monitor. This helps a lot.
• Altering the FOV in game, this can also make a big difference in how motion is exaggerated and presented to you. Smaller FOVs let you see less and make motion more jarring (think zoomed through a scope), and wider FOVs let you see more, help you feel more grounded in the game environment when moving through it.
• Responsiveness. This can help. Disable vsync or anything that can contribute significantly to latency. Nvidia low latency options are good when available. Higher frame rates for smoother motion. Disable motion blur. Faster response rate monitors can help, if you have an older slower monitor that ghosts a lot and smears out movement, upgrading to a newer one with fast response rates can help. Read up about render latency in general, use tools that measure it for you, improve it as much as you can.

Latency is killer, most motion sickness is caused by your senses reporting different things to your brain, or your brain expecting one thing, and getting another. People get it on ships when they see steady flat horizons which mixes with inner ear telling them they're rocking. That's why people got it with VR a lot. The general fix was improve latency of the display to be more closely inline with what the body feels and expects.

Not all of these will work for you, but some might.

 

[nitram100]

I only recently started to suffer from motion sickness in games, not sure why. I've been going to the physio to try and sort it. It's crazy because I was a quake 3 gamer, would play for hours and hours with no issues but now I'm older I can't even play ArcRAiders for more than 5 mins without feeling nauseous.

All I can say is increasing FOV, turning off motion blur and having highest frame rate with least input lag possible helps.

I sometimes take meds like cinnarizine to combat the motion sickness.

You can also do Saccades exercises to help train the brain.

 

[AtaRo]

I tried the game at max fov and when panning left or right it looks like the video is warping and it gives me a headache after a few minutes, this do not seem to happen at min fov though as the fov is pretty narrow.