This sucks ... vertigo / dizzy spells

dark_matter · 18 Oct 2006 at 17:51

Half Life made me feel sick. I couldnt complete it because of it. Half Life 2 is the same. It isnt to bad when I changed the FOV from 75 to 90. Basically its the narrow field of view that is causing the sickness. Imagine going on a roller coaster with blinkers on the side of your eyes.

Stellios · 18 Oct 2006 at 18:31

Im like this with some games. PREY had me feeling ill.

Klytus · 18 Oct 2006 at 18:51

Not a joke, have a look here:-

http://www.iamdizzy.com/physio.html

Cawthorne Cooksey exercises can REALLY help this type of problem, google it for loads of info and exercises to treat it.

Neil79 · 18 Oct 2006 at 18:51

Neil79 said:
Not from what ive seen , especially in gothic 3... and that game doesnt have frame rates dramatically above 60fps...

Each monitor is different

Geeesh you people :rolleyes:

If you use vsync the frame rates are so bad in the game that anything dropping below 60 50 will make it stone dive to half that of 60hz, 30fps...

Boogle · 18 Oct 2006 at 19:01

Neil79 said:
Geeesh you people

If you use vsync the frame rates are so bad in the game that anything dropping below 60 50 will make it stone dive to half that of 60hz, 30fps...

Triple buffering.

Neil79 · 18 Oct 2006 at 19:13

Boogle said:
Triple buffering.

Hmm suppose i could use that , ill give it a try with ati tray tools

thanks

Rob43 · 18 Oct 2006 at 19:16

Boogle said:
Triple buffering.

I always use it when i have vsync turned on

HangTime · 18 Oct 2006 at 22:30

Boogle said:
Don't worry LCD is essentially 'always on', it has no refresh rate.

I understand what you mean from an 'eye strain' point of view, but the fact is a 60hz refresh rate still means that the screen only updates 60 times a second. It may be constantly lit (rather than a CRT which is essentially just a continual series of pulses) but that doesn't mean that we should ignore the refresh rate when it comes to gaming, as a higher frame/refresh rate is beneficial for some people.

The technology is a irrelevant, a 60hz refresh rate is a 60hz refresh rate whatever way you look at it.

Boogle · 18 Oct 2006 at 22:36

HangTime said:
I understand what you mean from an 'eye strain' point of view, but the fact is a 60hz refresh rate still means that the screen only updates 60 times a second. It may be constantly lit (rather than a CRT which is essentially just a continual series of pulses) but that doesn't mean that we should ignore the refresh rate when it comes to gaming, as a higher frame/refresh rate is beneficial for some people.

The technology is a irrelevant, a 60hz refresh rate is a 60hz refresh rate whatever way you look at it.

OK, sure. But they do have a response time too

A 16ms panel for example, can theoretically display 62.5 (1000 / 16) images per second peak. 12ms would be 83.3r. As far as I know all the <12ms panels are grey-grey, with a real response time of no better than 12ms.

Personally I do like higher FPS, even though my monitor has firmly been at 60hz due to DVI for a long, long time. The tearing doesn't bother me since I rarely see it in most games. The higher framerate is noticeable though, but mostly because the minimum framerate is also higher.