I get carsick from FPS

**Muqtar SGT_Clintok** · 11-23-07, 09:59 AM

I will go ahead and let people make the pink panties comments.........

I can play BF2 for hours and be fine. However, games like FEAR, COD4, and others tend to make me carsick within 15 minutes. It has begun to piss me off, but Advil and looking away now and then don't help. I figure it probably has to do with the dynamic lighting.

I was thinking about building a monster machine and getting into Crysys (sp?), but I am hesitant to do so because I dont want to spend boatloads of money and find that the game just makes me sick. I was thinking about getting those little pads for behind the ears, but that is getting ridiculous.

Anyone else experience this with FPS? If so, any barnyard tricks to help with the nausea & headaches?

Its off to douche for now,
Clint

**CivilWars** · 11-23-07, 10:07 AM

Clint,

Build the big bad ass rig, buy Crysis, and see how it goes. If it makes you ill I have a solution. Disconeect the big bad ass rig, box it up, and PM me for my mailing address. After you mail the big bad ass rig to me I will personally quality test it for you. If it does not happen to me we will know it is you, and not the big bad ass rig. For your safety I will keep the big bad ass rig until you find a cure.

That really sucks. I have no solutions other than my smartass replies to cheer you up.

**MotoZ** · 11-23-07, 10:19 AM

Muq,

It happens. I get queasy from some Source maps. DoD avalance is one that comes to mind.

**Muqtar SGT_Clintok** · 11-23-07, 10:39 AM

I may try to manipulate some of the dynamic lighting, and I might just start snorting scopolamine.

Civil by the way, it was cool to face off against you on the SF server last night. I look forward to many more battles,

Clint

**CivilWars** · 11-23-07, 10:41 AM

I had a blast both nights I have been on. If you stop in any evening/night I will probably be there. It is my new home I am afraid.

**Veovis** · 11-23-07, 10:53 AM

FYI, "carsick" is motion sickness. From games, what you get is simulator sickness. The symptoms are the same but the bio-mechanics are different (I don't fully understand it). AFAIK, there is nothing that can be done for simulator sickness, all of the methods that work for motion sickness (pills, bracelets, etc) are ineffective against it.

I get sick from SP games sometimes, but not from MP games (even if it's the same game!). How does that make any sense? I think it might be that I Get more "immersed" in MP because I enjoy it more. I can grow a tolerance/resistance to my SP sickness by simply exposing myself to it more.

Piloting in BF2142 used to make me sick but I worked past that (and also never played exclusive pilot anymore). Portal SP made me sick at first because of all the weird convoluted rotations you do as you pop in an out of floors and walls in different orientations. But I somehow got past that too.

I have literally been so sick from a game in the past that I've puked, I just have to recognize it coming on and stop playing. WOLFENSTEIN 3-D was the worst, way back when.

As you see from my avatar/sig, I am into skydiving. When I started, I would literally get airsick just from the 10 minute plane ride to altitude. The more jumps I did the more that went away. I recently took a few months off the sport, and when I came back I felt the nausea again, the first few rides. One jump recently we got rained out and decided to ride the plane down (nobody got out, even though we got up to full altitude). The pilot did some crazy diving spirals and a few zero g arcs to entertain us... the zero g was freaking cool but after the 5th one I was puking hardcore.

Everyone on the plane had a really good laugh because I'm a well known and respected jumper at that dropzone, and they were like, how the fuck can you skydive if you get motion sickness? It's just different when you're in control and do it often. When I started surfing I even got seasick just from sitting on the board in the chop waiting for a set to come in. That too went away.

My only advice is hopefully you can adapt as I have. Work your tolerance up in small doses and don't keep playing past that point or you'll bring the sickness on full blast and ruin yourself. If I let it go too far when I feel it coming on, I'm in for a world of hurt and my head will spin for hours even after I stop.

**Muqtar SGT_Clintok** · 11-23-07, 12:13 PM

Concur, and was tracking that motion sickness and FPS/sim sickness are not caused by the same thing.

The slang was to do with the symptoms.

I believe that I can tolerate BF2 because although the graphics can be dialed up on it, it still looks more like a cartoon than it does real world.

The closer the game gets to real life, the quicker I get sick. Which sucks.
I will work at building up tolerance.

Just throwing the net out there to see if anyone else had overcome this tragic handicap.

**Veovis** · 11-23-07, 02:36 PM

The other werid thing for me is that watching demos or other people play will make me sick fast, because I'm not in control. View bob also makes me sick.

**~~Cecil900~~** · 11-24-07, 12:14 AM

Hey man here's one thing that can help.

Some games have "player bob" in which the screen bobs up and down, like your running. If you can disable this, that should help.

Player bob is simply there to simulate running.

**SwissChocolate** · 02-24-08, 01:16 PM

My dad gets the same thing but with most games he plays (except for Rock Band!).

I guess my online suggestion is to take a break every 30 min or so. Or, you can used to it, my dad was allergic to shrimp but he ate so many his allergy went away, so getting used to it could help.