Do You Get Sick When You Play?

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March 24th, 2003, 01:06 PM
Stalemate

Do You Get Sick When You Play?

Chris_MacMahon posted in another thread that he had experienced Video Game Motion Sickness.

More info:
http://www.gamingillustrated.com/vid...e_sickness.php
http://www.mindlab.org/revision/mweb/media/nyt1.htm

Nintendo even warns about it: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/man...cn_english.jsp

My brother recently reported not being able to play Quake3 for those same reasons and I dissed him playfully about being such a wuss.

Just this past weekend though, after a couple of hours of Descent3, I started getting nauseous and had to stop playing entirely. This was the first time I'd played this game on my 19" screen in fullscreen mode.

It came as a surprise, but I wonder who else has experienced this?

Any tricks to offset it or delay it?
March 24th, 2003, 01:10 PM
silencio

My Mom does. Yep, she plays quake3, unreal tournament, and a few others. ..mostly with the kids but she does play and does get sick from it. It's probably the same thing with people who get motion sick. Blame it on the ear.
March 24th, 2003, 01:27 PM
Chris_MacMahon

what a nice topic adept :grin:

when i first told someone they just laughed at me...
i actually hear alot of people with it...but only on certin games...i was thinking about trying the motion sickness bracelets....but i don't game that much
March 24th, 2003, 01:56 PM
meatwad

i do OK with 1p3d games, but have a problem with my GBA. Drives my head crazy after a while. I need to get a backlight for it.
March 24th, 2003, 02:27 PM
Budd

if i play on a friends rig, i get sick. hes got his resolution and refresh set so high it makes me nauseous just looking at his desktop
March 24th, 2003, 05:56 PM
+Daemon+

my eyes just start hurting bad, thats when I know to take a break :)
March 24th, 2003, 06:03 PM
Diver01

What refresh rates and resolutions are your games set at? Mine is at 60Hz.. if I set it higher than that it makes my eyes hurt, but lately when playing WarcraftIII, I can see some screen flicker,, very annoying!!
March 24th, 2003, 06:25 PM
+Daemon+

60hz eek, I cannot use that its my eyes in secs look at 60 hz ouch... its like fluorescent light hurts my eyes to, I need 75 hz or more

its just do from looking at a monitor for 18 years

when I play games I put it to the max color depth 32, rez on the system and in game sis 1280x1024, max everything from there.

in my sig I have my system, click on it and it tells you everything :)
March 25th, 2003, 12:51 PM
ironwill99

I remember getting what my friends and I used to call "video game headache" after playing for 14 hours or so. solution: migrane strength excedrine with a coke or better yet jolt to chase it down. man those were the days. no wife, no bills, just play (sigh).
March 25th, 2003, 02:45 PM
red30

I get it all the time, any first person shooter does it for me. I get about 10 minutes play and then i have to turn it off as it makes me feel very sick, i have missed out on soooo much because of it. :(
March 25th, 2003, 03:15 PM
jimmm33

I used to get motion sickness when I played Doom back in the day.

A very powerful machine can help alot. Get the frame rate as high as you can. Turn off lighting features and shadows. Try running at 800x600 instead of 1024x768. It can also help not to play in a dark room.

I also think it is the case that some people are more affected than others.

I'm having alot of fun playing Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942, and I'm glad I'm no longer having the problem.
March 25th, 2003, 03:27 PM
Dankman420

Nope, Never

Unless I'm drunk....sickness is never a problem.
It has to do w/refresh rates. The higher you set the less likely it is for you epileptic peeps to get sick.
March 25th, 2003, 08:59 PM
cookin chef

I too get very dizzy and sick if I play for more than 2 hours.
Almost faint or throw up.
It started happening when I 1st started playing the original doom II, castle wolfenstein and Duke Nukem, the old dos games.

I can't tolerate for more than 2 hours max before taking a break.

I need monitor refresh rates to be 75 hz or higher to tolerate it.

I'm staying away from the 3d shooter games. I don't mind watching my bros play once in a while because I can move my eyes away anytime.
March 25th, 2003, 11:30 PM
WebHead

Quote:

Originally posted by Diver01
...Mine is at 60Hz...

Dude!!! Are you insane??? :) OMG, if I even glance at a screen set to 60hz my eyes start to bleed (well just water at least). I seriously have to put on sunglasses in order to look at the screen to change it to 72, 75, or hopefully 85+Hz. Anyway, sorry to go off-topic, but man-o-man that just made me cringe reading that. :D
March 26th, 2003, 01:21 AM
3D Prophet III

Quote:

Originally posted by cookin chef

It started happening when I 1st started playing the original doom II, castle wolfenstein and Duke Nukem, the old dos games.

Yeah, them games use to get me very sick, I think it was because you had to turn using the arrow keys and the walls and the like seemed to spin instead of the character. Those games really didn't give you much control over how fast you turned. Unreal made me sick too until I turned down the Bob feature, I set it so the character wouldn't bob at all while running. Decent 3 forget it, that game made me so sick I gave it away, same with Teracide. I've had no problems with MotoRacer 2, Q3A or UT2003, I guess because I'm able to control how fast I turn.

I never had motion sickness as a child, but them early IdSoftware games killed me. I still can't play them. I also can't play that game that has them dinosaurs in it, forget what it's called. Oh yeah, Turok.
March 26th, 2003, 07:38 AM
ben_341

It happens occationally. It was frequent when I started playing shooters, (descent, doom etc) probably back in '95. I'd only be able to go an hour or too befre having to stop. However it subsided. It then began again a little for Quake2, probably the first game I played a lot with proper 3D rendered graphics. That passed quickly. After then I only suffered if I was already tired, already had a headache or hadn't eaten (but that would've kick started the nausia anyway).

Now generally I'm fine, but I get too stuck i my ways playing the same old games. If I was to paly something more modern than Counterstrike I bet i'd be running for the loo in no time, he he.

I'm the kinda person that gets quite sick easily, or at least I did until I was about 16 or so.
March 26th, 2003, 11:32 AM
Stalemate

Re: Nope, Never

Quote:

Originally posted by Dankman420
Unless I'm drunk....sickness is never a problem.
It has to do w/refresh rates. The higher you set the less likely it is for you epileptic peeps to get sick.

Actually, this is something completely different from epileptic seizures brought on by bright/flashing lights.

Check out the linke in my original post for more information.

Time to take a Gravol and load DescentIII now. :D
March 26th, 2003, 12:09 PM
Diver01

Quote:

Originally posted by WebHawg
Dude!!! Are you insane??? :) OMG, if I even glance at a screen set to 60hz my eyes start to bleed (well just water at least). I seriously have to put on sunglasses in order to look at the screen to change it to 72, 75, or hopefully 85+Hz. Anyway, sorry to go off-topic, but man-o-man that just made me cringe reading that. :D

Believe me ive tried and I get bad screen flicker at all other resolutions other than 60hz and 100hz.
March 27th, 2003, 02:51 PM
CreepingDeath

Only severe back aches and headaches after about 10 hours :)