Curiosity: A case of motion Sickness ...

There are some games I experienced something similar.

Distance to the screen matters to me, also field of view and room light.
If you can, try to play on a bigger screen. Also with a controller, I know gamepads suck for FPS but it's worth a try.

If your limit is 15 minutes, try playing 5 minutes and taking breaks. Increase the time progressively across days.

I rarely ever feel motion sick in games luckily. One of the few times I can remember feeling ill due to the movement on screen was in Serious Sam 3, when you swing your melee weapon & the screen wobbles around. Sometimes if things get too fast & cluttered on screen in any game though, I can start feeling that strain.

I'm not sure what else helps with motion sickness besides mainly raising FOV if possible. I know having a high consistent frame-rate can help against motion sickness, so try for 60 frames or up if possible. Perhaps playing on a bigger monitor, so it's easier to digest everything in front of you, or maybe even a smaller monitor, so there is less for your eyes to be strained on, could help. I'm just guessing though, especially since everyone's motion sickness seems to behave slightly differently.

Either way, good luck trying to alleviate your motion sickness!

I'm a old player. I played alot fps when I was younger (Doom, Heretic, Quake etc.) and I don't remember being sick. Today, 20 years later, I developped some motion sickness when I'm in a car for example. If I'm not the driver, I can easyly be sick. At the same time, I experienced 2-3 issues with my inner ear. I had some Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (or BPPV = the most common cause of vertigo, a false sensation of spinning). I'm even now subject to fear of height. My advice is to check if you have some problems regarding your balance outside of games.

Tips: You have to differentiate two points: Are you spinning or is the world around you spinning? This can help you better understand what happens.

Regarding games, I have no problem with new FPS but I recently played this old Wolfenstein game and I quickly felt sick. Some old games give me this sensation.

Hope it helps.

Wow to Lot of nice tips and experiences here, I appreciate that, and will try your advices, Thanks a lot for sharing =)

low fps (under 40) and low fov (under 90 horizontal) are the main reason i get motion sick.
also head bobbing contributes in some games when it's extreme.

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I have the solution, at least for me, it works.

1. Adjust mouse speed, make it slower
2. stick colored paper on top-left and top-right of the monitor. I stick my name card.
3. Make sure that while you play the game, you can see the paper in step 2

Last year I played Warframe, I had this sickness, after I do these 3 steps, I'm cured. Very simple and effect.

Used to happen to me alot, I was diagnosed with vasovagal syncope, pre syncope, photosensitivity, and motion sickness with no known cause. I dont have a seizure disorder but would even get seizures from the photosensitivity sometimes and it all continued like that for a long time until i was prescribed zofran for another unrelated condition, its not completely gone but it is much more bearable. I can now play games I couldn't before with just some mild dizziness. There are over the counter anti nausea/motion sickness medications that work pretty well too might be worth a shot to try sea bands too if you can find them.

Damage to the inner ear can contribute to it as the inner ear is very important in coordination and any damage to it can cause dizziness. It would be good to rule out other possibilities with a neurology appointment and an eye check up if you haven't had one recently, it could be caused by multiple conditions.

Hope everyone suffering with this gets better so you can enjoy all of your games to the fullest. 😊

the only time I got nausea from playing a game was with Human Fall Flat after 3 hours, haven't touched it since then

aside from this I can go 10+ hours no problem with any other game

Semi-Relevant trivia: Motion Sickness is caused by a subconscious communication error between a person’s eyes and their inner ear. There’s an area inside a person’s ears that acts like a sort of gyroscope that’s constantly reporting the body’s position and movement to the brain so that it can make constant subconscious muscle adjustments to keep us from falling over. The eyes do this a bit too through visual input and both areas operating in tandem contribute a lot towards us keeping our balance.

The problem arises when one of these senses insists that the body is moving, but the other sense is equally insistent that the body isn't moving at all. This sensory error causes a subconscious involuntary response that makes the body think it has been poisoned and thus tries to purge whatever contaminated substance it thinks that has been eaten, or in other words causes nausea and vomiting. The most common example of this would be seasickness.

As for myself, thankfully I don’t get motion sickness from games unless I’m trying to play one in a moving car or airplane. Trying to read a book in those places will make it happen quicker. For me, I’ve found that making myself breathe more deeply and regularly than normal can help delay the onset of the symptoms and can help quicken recovery a little afterwards.

TLDR: Motion Sickness is the body overreacting because it mistakenly thinks that it has been poisoned.

Maybe you are like me and you have a slight squint?
A pair of glasses from the ophthalmologist helped me a lot.

The sad part is, some will say that this is not a real condition when it really is. (Cue the 30 vs 60 FPS I can't see any difference so you must be lying argument)

As for the OP, depending on some games, I do experience motion sickness. However, there's a way you can play headbobbing games as I like to call it. Just distance yourself to your monitor. These so call headbobbing (or narrow FOV for that matter) was made in mind for couch players where they sit for more than a meter away from their TV, as opposed to PC players whose eyeballs frequently touch their LCD screen. So the solution is to move yourself away from the monitor bit by bit until you feel comfortable enough for extended play sessions.