Getting nauseous :(

Done a search on MxO forum, but found out the shocking truth that I'm all alone, so be gentle with me :)...

MxO is going to be huge, so I'm very exited about the game. UNFORTUNATELY, when the 3D-gameplay is getting really intense, I get into the game so much that I actually get nauseous! Suddenly got it like a year ago, when playing UT and UT2003 etc. Been playing Call of Duty lately and it still is spoiling my fun! Really getting irritating... :mad: anyone else experienced this? Or tips how to prevent it?

Make sure you pause at least 15 minutes between each hour playing, and relax a little.

Try to eat healthy food, drink lots of water, and make sure you don't play when you are sleepy.

Hope this helps. If you have to vomit or anything similar out of the ordinary I suggest you visit a fysician, or doctor.

HU

10q HU, never tried the 15 minute break. I'll try that, hope it helps. Would not want to miss all the fun! Strange thing is I can play all sorts of games (including racing games) for hours without any problems...

Originally posted by there=NoSpoon
10q HU, never tried the 15 minute break. I'll try that, hope it helps. Would not want to miss all the fun! Strange thing is I can play all sorts of games (including racing games) for hours without any problems...

first person perspective games can induce nausea... you shouldnt have that problem with matrix, being that its going to be in 3rd person (the evironment wont rotate as quickly)

You should still take a break every hour though. Let your eyes, and your arm relax a bit. RSI is lurking everywhere these days.

HU

who is that baron guy in your sig HU ?

lol if i play shooting games, i never take a break i just keep on playing. and when i get bored i just quit and do something else
longest that i ever played a shooting game whas about 3 hours

I have played games for six hours or longer without a break, which is bad. It really tires your eyes and can cause insomnia or other sleeping disorders. That's one of the reasons I don't sleep very well: I'm addicted to my pc!

HU

Baron Samedi (Samedi=Saturday in French) is an African God of Death and very popular in Black Magic. He is not affiliated with voodoo magic, but some movies like to make him more of an evil magic over lord. He is not evil, he just likes the dead, like Hades.

The Baron appears in one James Bond movie as a guy with a skull painted on his face, and carrying a hat and stick. That person was familiar with black Magic if I remember it correctly.

I just thought he might be our representative :). A bit evil, and deadly...

HU

Baron guy was in live and let die, and in the movie he also has this insane evil laugh, fun to imitate, like the MUHAHAHAHAHAAA from Smith. You should get that in the game as a taunt :)

I occasionally become nauseous a little playing 3rd person games but I think I figured out why. I searched some more until I read this fun theory (http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/06/02/0337257.shtml#1021858). It's about how the lag in user-input and game-output can cause nausea when it is above a certain timelimit. It nicely points out that performance has a very high priority for game developpers. You know how much fun it is in 1st person games to chase someone without him noticing it? Well, of course ppl were chasing me also, but I had a remedy for that: swing the mouse around when suspicious, and open fire if somebody is on your tail while walking backwards. Had some fun moments with that, so I've been doing that ever since in games. Sometimes, when network or server is slow, I suppose the change of environment for those kind of movements is just too slow. Which according to the article can cause nausea. Guess it's best for me to get shot in the back ;)

So, I've got some tips to try: besides the 15 minute break, I also found some tips like play the game in a window in stead of fullscreen (if possible), sit further back from the screen so your eyes can see the monitor.

And don't foget to eat healthy, and drink lots of fluids!

HU

yeah i'm also alittle addicted to my pc.
i play too long. not only games but laso on the internet

Don't know if this will help you or not, but you could try increasing the refresh rate (unless you're using an LCD monitor)- that usually helps people who get nausious/headaches from using the computer too long because their eyes actually pick up the screen refreshing itself. Those folks don't consciously realize that's what's happening, though. Anywho, try it and see if that helps.

Originally posted by PsycikPsycho
... their eyes actually pick up the screen refreshing itself. Those folks don't consciously realize that's what's happening, though.

Interesting, I sit behind a TFT screen (laptop) for like 8/9 hours a (work-)day and I'm not suffering from any nausea, headaches or feeling dizzy. Even get away with RSI so thank God, no problems here. But I'm playing most of my games on my desktop pc at home where I use a 'normal' monitor. So I'll try increasing the refresh rate. Hopefully all the little tips make a big improvement...

- after all, somebody has to shoot you guys in MxO ;) -

i also don't have any of that. hummm probaly if i like something much i can play it very long

Originally posted by there=NoSpoon

- after all, somebody has to shoot you guys in MxO ;) -

LOL ^_^


As for the refresh rate thing, it only effects around 2% of the population. These people can usually even see the screen refreshing slightly if they turn their heads away from the screen and look at it through the corner of their eye.

Personally, I'm glad to have crappy eyesight :D Lets me play my games longer ;)

Bless you with the crappy eyesight PsycikPsycho ;) and you're sh!tting me: I actually can see screen-refreshing sometimes. Not always, but never occurred to me it was the refreshing of the screen...

Freddy, I like playing games a lot, but I will never be as bad as when I was a 13 year old kid. As so many I had the mighty Commodore 64, and that thing ruled(s). Used to play straight through the night :D

Originally posted by there=NoSpoon
Bless you with the crappy eyesight PsycikPsycho ;) and you're sh!tting me: I actually can see screen-refreshing sometimes. Not always, but never occurred to me it was the refreshing of the screen...

Freddy, I like playing games a lot, but I will never be as bad as when I was a 13 year old kid. As so many I had the mighty Commodore 64, and that thing ruled(s). Used to play straight through the night :D

lol i had that thing also.
i had a atari, commodore 64, a nintendo (not the super nintendo but just the first one). after that my parents bought this PC for me and my sister, and in december 2002 i bought a PS2

so thats it for the moment. too bad my room is too small (because of a very large closet in my room) or else i would buy my own pc and have it on my room.

Originally posted by Freddy Krueger
...PC for me and my sister...
Guess it's war between you guys ;)

Heard about the C64 emulator a couple of years back: immediately downloaded it, and settled some unfinished business with Defender of the Crown and Pool of Radience! That game was huge, 6 frikin 5 1/4 disks! Games we so small back then, we used to get pretty exited when a game required a 2nd disk, but now it was like 'please insert disk 6'... We were like: "Shiiiiiii... that thing has gotta be JOKING, RIGHT?" :D

Originally posted by there=NoSpoon
settled some unfinished business with Defender of the Crown and Pool of Radience! That game was huge, 6 frikin 5 1/4 disks! Games we so small back then, we used to get pretty exited when a game required a 2nd disk, but now it was like 'please insert disk 6'... We were like: "Shiiiiiii... that thing has gotta be JOKING, RIGHT?" :D




LOL! Don't you just miss those good ol' days? :P
Heck, I still use my Ataris every once in a while (2600 and 5800 (I think that's what it is- I'm too lazy to go check)), but I'm partial to my Sega Genesis (Sonic rules!!) and NES.

I love the old 286 I grew up on; this semester I fixed it up so it was running again for extra credit in a class. *sigh* that was a member of my own family.... :D


As for seeing the screen refreshing itself without looking away, I'm mucho impressed, there=NoSpoon. You're definately in the minority; how do you put up with it?

I was raised with orange and black monitors that just runned DOS, and some vague pong game, those were laptops btw, and they were HUGE, about as big as my current computer :) .

Than we got a computer, and I've been using a computer ever since. There will be no gaming consoles in this house ;) !

HU

Originally posted by PsycikPsycho
As for seeing the screen refreshing itself without looking away
Whoops, did I say that? I meant, just as you said: when I look away from the screen, I sometimes can see it refreshing from the corner of my eye... So I'm not like, batman or something

And don't do this, don't start with the walk down memory lane about old computers! :D I sure do miss adjusting the heads of my tapedrive! U know when a game loaded you had to pray that thing worked when the screen was scratching and screeching... I got my baptism of fire to game consoles on a Megadrive from sega with Mortal Kombat and Sonic also, got a NES afterwards. But, like HU, had been playing on PC ever since...
Spent all my allowance in arcade halls with Galaga and 1942 and stuff.

I also still play old games, but on emulators only like MAME and C64. I made my bro cry when I showed him Wonderboy for the first time on one of the consoles ;) Almost had to give him CPR when he saw Ladybug. Sheer tears of happiness...

(I'll shut up about them-ol'times)

if you use a camera, film your pc. when you look back at the film you will see bars going from down to up (or from left to right) on your screen :p

haha- sorry I misinterpreted your comment. Congrats, still! You're in the 2%!


I'll leave all that memory lane behind now.... :( It makes me sad that my youngest brother missed out on all of it; he thinks my atari is some new video game system- LOL. I tried explaining why Super Breakout was so great, he just doesn't get it :(



Freddy, you're right about that camera stuff. It works with TV's too. For the longest time I didn't understand why that happened... If you time the record rate of a video camera and put in in sync with the TV/monitor, you won't have that problem. Of course, all of my attempts to do so have failed miserably because it's so stinking hard/impossible.... (and I get frusterated and give up)

:D

Yup no status Anomaly for me, just ordinary Mr. Blue-Pill ;)... Wow, how about that for the your-name-thread-in-MxO Freddy :D ?

Yay hooray for me, been playing 1st person game for an hour before my first (forced) break! Feel pretty good, now I have to figure out which of the tips I got makes me feel better...

lol

Glad you're feeling better :)