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Do any games make you sick? In response to my X-mas eve experience. . .

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Downloaded the Half-Life 2 demo yesterday. Played through the two demo levels - and realized near the end I felt terrible. I napped for a while thinking it was something else. I booted the demo back up and played at hard level this time, and then realized - yes it was the game giveing me motion sickness.


Took most of the evening for me to feel really better.


Anyone else with this problem?
 
I've heard it's a common problem amongst many people actually....

some people can't play first person shooters because of that...

a lot of girls i've talked to wouldn't touched cs just because of it...
 
Hmm, I'm a frequent Enemy Territory player. Never got 'motion sick' from that game.

I've also played the original counter-strike back in the day - and it did not make me sick.

I'm just glad I did not drop 50$ plus. . .
 
Yes. And I'm fine with CS: Source(although I get absolutely pwned everytime I play 😱). I suspect that it has something to do with FOV setting, as HL2's default setting is 75 degrees and CS:S's setting is 90 degrees. Run a search on "sick" over at the software forum and you'll see a few threads on it and you'll see that there's a lengthy, stickied disussion on this at Valve's forum.

I'm not an expert(in fact, I'm very much closer to the n00b side) on this, I'm assuming that they narrowed the FOV to draw less of the environment, thus improving the frame rate. And if that's the case, then everyone at Valve can eat sh!t and die for risking my health to make their game look like it runs better than it should.
 
Happened to me the very first time I played Quake 3, had terrible vertigo for about 24 hours, couldn't walk or anything. Can play any FPS now without a problem.
 
Descent was the only game that made me feel sick when playing games on the pc. Q3, CS etc I am fine with. I was not use to gaming on a 14" fish bowl crt back in the day 😛

Koing
 
HL2 is more associated with motion sickness because it's using a different field of vision than typical FPS. The fix was somewhere on Google. (I don't have a link handy, sorry!)
 
A couple of XBOX games have done it to me, pretty rare though.
I cant even remember the name, i just remember running up alot of stairs then going to the bathroom in R/L to blow beats 🙁
 
Original CS, and UT has done that to me when I started playing them. I got used to the games so I never got it after.
 
Originally posted by: poopaskoopa
Yes. And I'm fine with CS: Source(although I get absolutely pwned everytime I play 😱). I suspect that it has something to do with FOV setting, as HL2's default setting is 75 degrees and CS:S's setting is 90 degrees. Run a search on "sick" over at the software forum and you'll see a few threads on it and you'll see that there's a lengthy, stickied disussion on this at Valve's forum.

I'm not an expert(in fact, I'm very much closer to the n00b side) on this, I'm assuming that they narrowed the FOV to draw less of the environment, thus improving the frame rate. And if that's the case, then everyone at Valve can eat sh!t and die for risking my health to make their game look like it runs better than it should.
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75 degrees?
I've noticed that something is just not right, but 75? I play most FPS games at 105-110 d. FOV.

OT: No, I haven't encountered motion sickness so far.
 
Originally posted by: Koing
Descent was the only game that made me feel sick when playing games on the pc. Q3, CS etc I am fine with. I was not use to gaming on a 14" fish bowl crt back in the day 😛

Koing
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Descent kicked my but too. I could never keep the darn thing upright so I would find myself compensating by moving my body/head.

 
Games don't make me feel sick. If my refresh rate is low that could cause my eyes to hurt, but that's regardless if I'm playing a game or not. I'll know immediately.
 
for HL2, it's the FOV... change the setting.

I get sick from Halo 2 on XBOX... big screen or small screen... can't change settings there either. 🙁
 
I tried the fov stuff - no help. I got myself sick again.

No more for me. At least I did not pay full price to figure this out. Thank god for demos.
 
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