Games and wierd "dizzyness"

[Nefertem]

I tend to get that wierd dizzyness when im sober, never had it when im playing games after a beer or 2!

Mine is usually more of a headache and blurry vision tho

Its called a hangover, sheepy :narnar:

[sheepy]

no its not, if i have a hangover I have it bad, I cant even look at a monitor, as some will remember teaming up with me on new years day. that wasn't a pleasant experience.

[Gorion]

I get this when I play on the computer and it's set to 60 hertz, It's to do with radiation, ( Still got a tft mon, or is that tct, I always forget. ) so I set it to 72 hertz, and it's fine. Or you get motion sickness.

check, monitor was @ 60 hertz, made it 75 now, thanks
 

Yep it's motion sickness. I get it on Half-life and Half-life 2 a fair bit. However I actually get it worse without head bob switched on. It's the gliding along sensation that gets me. With head bob on I suffer from it less. Which is probably why I never had a problem in Counter-Strike.
 
got it too with HL1 and 2
 
I only got it mild so I have no idea whether traditional motion sickness remedies (i.e tablets, weird rubber bracelets etc.) would help?

well, ive never suffered from any motion sickness, ie on boats, planes, fast cars etc, so maybe it is the crt rad :S
 
 
hopefully with 75 hertz and headbob off, its better

[Gorion]

right, just turned off the ingame 60 hertz option, and it totally fooked up my screen in the game, its all a bunch of lines. cant even turn it off(cant see anything) attempting to turn it off via ini hacking :S
 
edit: solved, if anyone has this problem you can fix it by editing rs_refresh_60hz off to rs_refresh_60hz on
 
in the file: user.ltx in here: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\STALKER-SHOC
 
edit via notepad and remember to untag: always use this selected program blablabla

[Eternaluk]

right, just turned off the ingame 60 hertz option, and it totally fooked up my screen in the game, its all a bunch of lines. cant even turn it off(cant see anything) attempting to turn it off via ini hacking :S
 
edit: solved, if anyone has this problem you can fix it by editing rs_refresh_60hz off to rs_refresh_60hz on
 
in the file: user.ltx in here: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\STALKER-SHOC
 
edit via notepad and remember to untag: always use this selected program blablabla

Sooo, Did that fix you head at all?

[smilodon]

well, ive never suffered from any motion sickness, ie on boats, planes, fast cars etc, so maybe it is the crt rad :S

Neither have I. Although I do start to feel exactly the same if I try to read a book while a passenger in a car. It must all be connected but I have no idea how :g:

[Eternaluk]

Neither have I. Although I do start to feel exactly the same if I try to read a book while a passenger in a car. It must all be connected but I have no idea how :g:

Get that too...

Or trying to play a game, or Console. ( In a car. ) (( Moving)) (((fast )))

[smilodon]

I did try very hard to resist doing the DR smilodon thing again...but failed

The brain is constantly receiving information about where you are and how you are moving. This information comes from the balance receptors in your inner ear which tell you which way up you are and what direction you are moving in. You also get information from your joints and muscles which tell you how you are moving and your skin which tells you what parts of your body are connected with the ground. Your brain links all these pieces of information up and provides a consistent picture of exactly what you are doing. As long as they all agree with each other things are fine and you feel fine.

However when some information contradicts other information you get problems. For example when you move around in a PC game your eyes tell your brain you are moving but your inner ear detects no motion, because you are actually sitting still in a chair at your PC. So you get two bits of information which don't agree. In fact they completely contradict each other. You are moving and you are not moving. Your brain gets confused and the result is motion sickness.

As to why for example I can get sick playing Half-Life but not Counter-Strike, why I get car sick if I read a book but can sleep in a sailing boat in high seas with no effect is beyond me.

[DuVeL]

However when some information contradicts other information you get problems. For example when you move around in a PC game your eyes tell your brain you are moving but your inner ear detects no motion, because you are actually sitting still in a chair at your PC. So you get two bits of information which don't agree. In fact they completely contradict each other. You are moving and you are not moving. Your brain gets confused and the result is motion sickness.
 
As to why for example I can get sick playing Half-Life but not Counter-Strike, why I get car sick if I read a book but can sleep in a sailing boat in high seas with no effect is beyond me.

I read this and had to think of something. The other day I played BF2 and I was using a plane and when I was flying my mom enterd the room. She started laughing because I was making a corner with the plane and with my head I was folowing the corner of the move (tilting my head).
 
Got to say that I can only read for like 10 minutes when I'm in a car...

[Gorion]

Sooo, Did that fix you head at all?

nope.. the game is bugged @ 60hertz and theres no head bob off option

[sheepy]

ive never suffered from any motion sickness, ie on boats, planes, fast cars etc,

whaaa thaaa!

you can't know about fast cars, you cant go fast in Malta, to many pot holes!

[Anonymous]

nope.. the game is bugged @ 60hertz and theres no head bob off option

There is an option in advanced graphics settings to disable the 60Hz limit (down near the bottom)

[Gorion]

whaaa thaaa!
 
you can't know about fast cars, you cant go fast in Malta, to many pot holes!

doesnt mean i havent been in a speeding car before
 
 

There is an option in advanced graphics settings to disable the 60Hz limit (down near the bottom)

when i do that, my screen was full of lines(unviewable), had to edit an ini to turn it off..