Getting sick while playing a game

[KethSelhan1986]

Hi.

I am a newbie, so this is my first experience playing PC games - keyboard and mouse, system Windows.

I have noticed when I play a game (ok, horror), for example, Slender: Arrival, when I must run with shift command and my mouse navigating left to right, I get sick while playing. I almost throw up and get a headache thus I can not play a game marathon for more 2+ hours.

I am 30 years old female. I have never had a problem; just I remember when I was a child and played silly DOS games, Aladdin, Dangerous Dave or Turok Dinosaur Hunter, I would get exhausted.

My friend, who is an experienced PC game player, said to me that I have maybe a problem with perception sight, that a lot of people suffer because of it.

What do you think or what should I do to get better? Thank you for any response and ideas.

[OneMuskyOx]

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

Publicado originalmente por Blue Space Communist:

Very True, though I was thinking to the ridiculous levels that Vidya Game characters do. Seriously they must have springs attached to their feet.

put a camera on somone's head and have them run for a bit, see what the footage looks like to you.

Jeez you're out for blood. Let me just hide in the corner and whisper that view bob is kind of a mean feature.

[Start_Running]

Publicado originalmente por Blue Space Communist:

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

put a camera on somone's head and have them run for a bit, see what the footage looks like to you.

Jeez you're out for blood. Let me just hide in the corner and whisper that view bob is kind of a mean feature.

I never said it wasn't mean or sort of silly. I rather like actually being able to aim while running.

[Commander Makara]

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

Publicado originalmente por Blue Space Communist:

Very True, though I was thinking to the ridiculous levels that Vidya Game characters do. Seriously they must have springs attached to their feet.

put a camera on somone's head and have them run for a bit, see what the footage looks like to you.

It's true that this is how the view would be with a camera attached, BUT ---- The human brain does a lot of work to fix this so we actually maintain a fairly smooth view when WE RUN.
Therefore, unless the idea of FIRST-PERSON is to emphasise that we are viewing through someone ELSE'S EYES *** then it makes no sense to incorporate this feature.
The only reasonable explanation is that it is some means to counter the ability to aim - to add some random inaccuracy according to motion: Well in that case, there's still not really any need for significantly sickening display, just a slight bobbing/blurring is good enough and the rest can be done simply by altering the spread pattern of the shots!




*** Maybe itäs related to how there's an insistence of lens flares despite no real reason to believe anything's actually viewed through a lens???

[OneMuskyOx]

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

put a camera on somone's head and have them run for a bit, see what the footage looks like to you.

I do, it's called "Found Footage". Zing.

[Start_Running]

The problem as I said is. and youa re right that the brain auto corrects for the shakiness, much in the same way it auto corrects for secade; that the sway becomes nausea inducing because the eyes are telling the brain something that the body and SCC's aren't.

Then the brain tries to be all Obama and work out a workable compromise between them but the stoimach be going all GOP and saying NOPE. and next thing you know everything is a mess.

[Start_Running]

Publicado originalmente por Blue Space Communist:

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

put a camera on somone's head and have them run for a bit, see what the footage looks like to you.

I do, it's called "Found Footage". Zing.

If you do it rigfht.. they never find the footage. Heh heh heh

[OneMuskyOx]

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

Publicado originalmente por Blue Space Communist:

I do, it's called "Found Footage". Zing.

If you do it rigfht.. they never find the footage. Heh heh heh

Now that I think about it, a "most dangerous game" style horror movie with some psycho that puts gopros on his victims and releases them into the wild would be a fascinating if not vomit inducing experience.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Publicado originalmente por Commander Makara:

[Therefore, unless the idea of FIRST-PERSON is to emphasise that we are viewing through someone ELSE'S [u]CHEST[/u]*** then it makes no sense to incorporate this feature.

Fixed it for you. Gun position doesn't typicaly match up otherwise.

Publicado originalmente por Blue Space Communist:

Now that I think about it, a "most dangerous game" style horror movie with some psycho that puts gopros on his victims and releases them into the wild would be a fascinating if not vomit inducing experience.

Have you seen the latest Resident Evit game? It supports VR in such a way.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/418370/

[OneMuskyOx]

Publicado originalmente por Spawn Of Totoro:

Publicado originalmente por Commander Makara:

[Therefore, unless the idea of FIRST-PERSON is to emphasise that we are viewing through someone ELSE'S [u]CHEST[/u]*** then it makes no sense to incorporate this feature.

Fixed it for you. Gun position doesn't typicaly match up otherwise.

My new head canon, except for maybe games where you can look down. L4D 1 and Mount and Blade come to mind.

[mellow]

this is like, not rly related, but why do ppl say theres no motion blur irl? like they ever see a fan spin? all you see is like a blurry fan, like the blur is from the motion lol

[Spawn of Totoro]

Publicado originalmente por an lol mellow:

this is like, not rly related, but why do ppl say theres no motion blur irl? like they ever see a fan spin? all you see is like a blurry fan, like the blur is from the motion lol

Who says there is no motion blur? This is the first I have heard of someone saying that.

[mellow]

Publicado originalmente por Spawn Of Totoro:

Publicado originalmente por an lol mellow:

this is like, not rly related, but why do ppl say theres no motion blur irl? like they ever see a fan spin? all you see is like a blurry fan, like the blur is from the motion lol

Why says there is no motion blur? This is the first I have heard of someone saying that.

idk, i heard in all the time a long time ago

[ProVegaGamer]

Just my views, but considering i haven't thrown up since i was in the 1st grade, I'm 35 years old now. ( you do realized how long ago that is lol ) If i just started playing games and i felt that way lol, i wouldn't even bothered playing any pc games and stick with the console, if the console did it as well, i would quit gaming.

I'm not sure what is happening with you, but at first i thought you were playing VR games, but you're just playing normal games and moving to left and right, sounds like something serious. Could be fear of something, i know i feel sick when i am on tall buildings , i mean I'm scared of heights , that all started with 9/11 though, even though i always had a fear of heights, but it got worse after 9/11.

[mellow]

mayb you are getting too hot? i feel sick when i get too hot and games make it way worse

meet the robinsons on the wii made me feel like that, like i get dizzy easy, but most games make me feel fine.

[KethSelhan1986]

Thank you all for suggestions, I will look into the settings.

A little personal background.

I am deaf and wearing hearing aids from as long I can remember.

And yes, I am very susceptible to car sickness from childhood times, I always have to take a Dramamine (anti-nausea med) to survive the drive (but only if I am not the driver).

I also have glasses from age 7 (mixed dioptre and it changes regularly per year, so I am waiting for to get a new glasses right now).

But yes, I can read books on PC desktop monitor (it is 22 inches LED), and I am watching movies with no problem. I also have MacBook Pro 15 inches laptop and the same problem with playing games but not with reading or watching movies.