Motion sickness

[Sabbath]

I have been playing driving games since the first papyrus Nascar, Indycar and the first F1GP, I have never suffered this sick feeling with any game apart from this. Annoys me too as I was really enjoying Dirt Rally. Anyone any advice as to what I can do to stop feeling sick when I play. I am Ok on the RallyX it is just the rally stages. Running no less than 90 FPS, tried vsync on and off, tried 144Hz down to 60Hz on my monitor. Tried every car view but I still get a massive headache and feel sick.

Thanks for reading.

[arby]

try reducing the FOV a lot and there are also setting to reduce head/camera shake- but not sure if that's only in helmet cam.

[Pöre]

Fiddle with fov to find best setting for cockpit view and try to reduce shadders to minimize blur effects.

[Feierabendbier of Doom]

On a non gameplay side, take a break at every service stop and just spend 3-5 minutes looking out the window with the most open view you have access to.
Sounds stupid, but it helps

[arby]

and try to look into the distance on the screen, ie, when approaching the hairpin, focus on it and not always 5 metres in front of you

[tunaphis]

Pramin (sea sickness tablets) one hour before playing.

[Wasabi Wei]

I may be crazy (yeah, I am, but that's a whole 'nother can of tuna.. :p) but it feels to me like moving the seat back a bit in cockpit view is less shaky than when I have the seat further forward or I am using dash-cam. Try getting your point of view up in the seat as much as you can and as far back as you can while still getting a decent slice of the road to view. This is in additioon to and after setting up your FOV properly as suggested above. Project immersion helped me a lot early on but now the seat position is sufficient for my needs. Having done the whole guide earlier helped me know what I was looking for from the FOV option and seat position, so I don't regret going through the process one bit. I never did that before the Dirt community recommended it, so 'Thanks, gents!' I am going to use better FOV in all games going forward, y'all made me a better gamer.

[Plaskus]

Don't be a such pu'ssy is my advice... Joking

Originally posted by arby:

try reducing the FOV a lot and there are also setting to reduce head/camera shake- but not sure if that's only in helmet cam.

Aren't you supposed to increase the FOV if you get motion sickness?

[Sabbath]

Thanks for all your advice, I will try all of the recommendations and hopefully will be able to start playing again. It is set at 75 FOV in the settings and that is what the calculater recommends, so I will have a play about with the 0.5 ingame FOV. If all else fails, it looks like the sea sick tablets.

[RGK]

Sitting further back from the screen helps me if I start to get that feeling. Only has to be about 5 inches.

[Jeff]

Go too the doctor and get a check up not joking.

[II Lagavulin II]

Does anyone else find the snowy stages at Monte Carlo a bit weird to look at?
No history of epilepsy and never had an attack/fit in my life but of all the video games I've ever played the heavy snow fall on the windscreen is probably one of the most unsettling.

Perhaps I should take Jef's advice.

[Eagleizer]

Check is you have anything that is causing lag between your input and the picture on your screen. In nVidia contorl panel, Manage 3D settings, make sure Virtual Prerendered Frames
is set to 1, both Globally and for DiRT Rally. Also set VSync to Adaptive there. Might be
worth a try.

HalfLife had a lag problem that made people sick when it was first released.
In the early age of flight simulators, pilots got sick because of lag too. IIRC,
more than 16ms would make the pilots sick.

Ginger is known to cure motion sickness, and I use it myself when I feel sick.
Chew on a thin slice or make some tea. I find Ginger more effective, and does
not make me tired like cemical solutions for motionsickness do. And it`s cheap :)

Good luck! :)

[ChillCore]

Disable screen shake completely, get rid of blur and any 3D effects, remove shadows, lower the graphical quality and animation settings as much as you can without going all the way down if you do not need to.

I've never had any form epilepsy myself (at least not that I know of) but I do have your prob too with some games (eg. the walking animation in minecraft) ... it sucks to be us.
I am almost sure that you can solve your problem with some of the above; I have been playing for hours yesterday without getting sick.
Going to the doctor will not help you, only getting the textures to display as flat as can be will.

That being said,
Do not continue playing when you start to feel sick-ish (as in don't wait to stop 'till you're ready to throw up) and do check up with a doctor if your problem can not be solved with the tips you've gotten here in this thread already.

ps:
Don't supress it with seasick tablets ... that does not solve your problem at all.


Edit:
Before I forget ...
You'll want your camera on the hood or bumper.
Also have a look into what causes car sickness so you can avoid it in the future; plenty of resources out there that explain it in detail.

[Chocoloco]

Originally posted by Scopsion:

Originally posted by Sabbath:

I have been playing driving games since the first papyrus Nascar, Indycar and the first F1GP, I have never suffered this sick feeling with any game apart from this. Annoys me too as I was really enjoying Dirt Rally. Anyone any advice as to what I can do to stop feeling sick when I play. I am Ok on the RallyX it is just the rally stages. Running no less than 90 FPS, tried vsync on and off, tried 144Hz down to 60Hz on my monitor. Tried every car view but I still get a massive headache and feel sick.

Thanks for reading.

Kids these days making games ussualy have no clue what they are doing. They will add blur,bloom, small FOV, a ton of screen shakes and other visual effects that will just make the game look worse and as you can see have a bad effect on your health. Try reducing ( if possible all those setting ).

You should NOT go from 144hz to 60. 144hz is better.

Originally posted by arby:

try reducing the FOV a lot and there are also setting to reduce head/camera shake- but not sure if that's only in helmet cam.

I am not sure if you arer a troll or what but small FOV is a bad thing and not a good one. next time if you have no clue what you are talking about try not to post.

Originally posted by Rock Manlyfist:

Don't be a such pu'ssy is my advice... Joking



Aren't you supposed to increase the FOV if you get motion sickness?

Are you having a perios or what? Girl stay out of topics that are too much for you.

The way you post it's you who should stay off all internet forums altogether...