playing 3D games while cracking seti = motion sickness?

[Wiz]

A bit off topic I know - but are some games known for causing motion sickness?
I find I can play UT etc... while running seti just fine - hurts my seti performance so I don't do it much, also Real Life (TM) gets in the way too much for gaming these days.
While playing the NOLF demo yesterday I actually got sick. Turned it off and started feeling better. Is this demo known for the problem or is it just me?
I've been a 3D gamer since they first started coming out and this is the first time one has made me physically sick.
I play it at 1024x768x32 at 120hz on a Hitachi 19inch screen. 64meg GF2 GTS, 1Ghz P3, 256megs ram.
Don't tell me just when I get to where I can afford a great rig for gaming I'm getting too old for it

 

[The Reaper]

I have heard people playing Q3 having this happen. I did get dizzy the first time I played Q3 beta online. There is alot of action going on at the same time and the brain might get alittle overloaded.

 

[JWMiddleton]

Hey Wiz, A few years ago I was playing a new computer game and I started noticing that I wasn't feeling well. I thought I was coming down with something. The next day I was fine and kinda forgot about it. About 5 days later I played the game again and after about 15 mins I noticed the same sick feeling returning. I quickly went to Dejanews and typed in the search string "get sick while playing unreal" and hundreds of message were found! :Q

I too was p!ssed that when I finally had a rig that would give me great game play I became the problem.

 

[Wiz]

hmmm
i used to play q3 a lot. I'll dig out UT and see what happens
(maybe I am just catching a virus and don't know it yet):frown:

 

[Wiz]

JWM, did you ever come up with a resolution?
Maybe I need to get my eyes checked or something? I don't like the thought of giving up games.
I don't play much but when I do I like the most immersion I can get.

 

[RaySun2Be]

Just a shot in the dark, but maybe try a different refresh rate that isn't a multiple of 60. I know I have had problems with 60hz refresh rates with "strobing" effects and lights, and since 120hz is double that, maybe it's some kind of subtle high speed strobing effect increased because of the way that game works.

 

[Wiz]

Thanks, I will try that - something did stick in my head about the 60 hz deal but I couldn't remember where I have seen it before.

 

[JWMiddleton]

Wiz, I had the refresh set to 75 hz, but I had "sync" off. I seem to remember a number of people giving advice on what to do, but I really don't remember except to limit the time you play. You might try searching deja.com.

Good luck!

 

[Hellburner]

You've got to play more so that the brain gets use to the visual input without the other accompanying feedback. Also from my own experience a low framerate and jerky movement can make it worse, and the newer the game the more likely your framerate during heavy action gameplay drops awful low.

 

[mechBgon]

The Descent series of games is known for making people queasy. Some people, anyway. Six degrees of freedom, no gravity... it's the REAL 3D game.

 

[Wiz]

Thanks guys, next time I play I'll be looking for a "head-bob setting" and I'll try a different screen setting and see what happens.
I have heard the lith engine causes this in many people. The motion in the game just seems a bit unnatural, I get the same degree
of jerky feeling in 640x480 as 1024x768. It just doesn't seem as smooth as q3 or UT.

 

[Assimilator1]

mechbgon

My favourite Foresaken also makes many people giddy too ,but it doesn't bother me in the slighest.Even when drunk heh
Tried a Descent 3 demo ,was ok but prefered the responses of Foresaken

 

[Smoke]

Maybe it's not related but anyway,

You know, I got my skeet shooting down to almost perfection. I got the finest competitive German made gun in the world, finally, to fit me just right. I even got a second one for backup. And then my arthritis kicks up and I can't go to tournaments any more.

Like my best friend says, Old Age Sucks!

hehehe, Now I'm not saying that's your problem there WIZ but one day in the future I'll bet all of you will remember my old friend's saying.

 

[OhioDude]

Soldier of Fortune was the first game that made me queasy. It was also the first game I played after I upgraded my PII 400 to a TBird 1100 with a GeForce.

I had some Dramamine laying around I'd had from the last time I flew a plane and I figured "what the heck". Popped one down and waited about a hour and went back and played SOF for several hours without a problem. The "less-drowsy formula" doesn't even affect your frag rate...

 

[Sukhoi]

Never had any problems, I guess I'm not as old as you guys.

 

[Wiz]

Smokeball, I've noticed a lot of things started sliding downhill after age 25. To peak so young and look forward to so many decades of slippage towards decrepatude is a little bit of a bummer.
So many things are just like your story of the tournaments, I guess the moral (if there is one) is to do as much as you can while you are able, none of us know how many days we will be here, and what subset of those we will be healthy.
So there, all you young WhipperSnappers by cracky... Get out there and do stuff!!!
Now, wheres that dramamine???

 

[Hawkeye_(BEL)]

I have the same problem when playing Doom: after 20-30 minutes of game play, I almost always have to barf. It's quite funny, since it's the only game I experience this in.

There have been some threads about this topic in General Hardware, and the consensus was that some people do get sick. Your eyes see a lot of motion, but your brain doesn't 'detect' any motionof your body, so you get sick.

It's actually the exact opposite from the feeling some people get from reading in a driving car. Your eyes don't see motion, but your body detects all the bumps and turns along the road...

 

[networkman]

Agree with mech... the Descent series was well known for making ALOT of people queasy.. even the flight-sim folks! :Q I think it was cuz at the time, Descent was fully-360 while most other 3D-shooters had the ground as fairly stable, while most play concentrated on the X and Y axes... add in the Z-axis of Descent, and there were incidents at the store I worked at where we actually had a couple customers head for the restroom.

Me.. I could play it for hours and hours on end.. but I get the same reaction when I go on roller-coasters.. go figure.

 

[Wellcky]

Hey I just remembered something.. there is goign to be a game simular to Descent coming out soon.. but now I cant remember.. U guys hear/see/smell anything