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Half-Life 2 sickness - Gwarsbane - 11-23-2004 http://www.planethalflife.com Quote:Half-Life 2 â Sickness Update 34 Comments Half-Life 2 sickness - Power and Glory - 11-23-2004 I've been lucky and have not experienced this. I guess playing these types of games for the last 10 years helped. Half-Life 2 sickness - DragonLady23 - 11-24-2004 WOW lol sounds like EverQuest all over again:P Half-Life 2 sickness - [CAKE]anonymity - 11-24-2004 I didnt think it was that bad. Its nothing compared to the headsway in the orginal dark forces. Half-Life 2 sickness - Wha? - 11-24-2004 I was thinking about that (that being headsway in Dark Forces), and I bet that's exactly what the problem is. While you are moving fluidly (ie. running around), you tend to focus on distant objects, and relatively slow moving details--or suffer more rapidly onset motion sickness, as in GRITS' case. Headswaying creates motion your brain isn't expecting, just like bouncing over stuff and running into things in vehichles. Another factor is how much of your monitor is in you view space. The more of your real FOV is full of moving shapes, the larger the effect (same reason you can read on a bus, but not in a car). Screen tears might cause some aggrivation of it too. Half-Life 2 sickness - GRITS - 11-25-2004 so it is an IQ issue...... that explains why "some" people don't have a problem with it :P Half-Life 2 sickness - [CAKE]anonymity - 11-25-2004 Who said anything about an IQ? btw I caught that GRITS <_< Half-Life 2 sickness - FuzzyShoting - 11-25-2004 A few tips I've gotten to reduce motion sickness: * do what you can to increase framerate/reduce framerate fluctuation (reduce screen res, sound and video quality settings) * setting fps_max to something reasonable may help * activating mat_vsync may help * switching from FOV 75 (default) to FOV 90 may help Other tips I've received: * while in vehicles, run into less things * throw up... you'll feel better for a while Also try this: (Read more at HalfLife2.net.) 1) Update your monitor's drivers. 2) Find out the Maximum Refresh Rate that your monitor supports for the resolution that you prefer gaming on (lowering resolution will result in higher possible refresh rates). This step is just for informational purposes. You may skip it since Step 4 completes this. 3) Download RefreshForce (Google it). 4) Tell it to "Auto Find" your refresh rates and modes. Click Apply. 5) Go to Steam --> Right click Half-Life 2 --> select Properties --> Launch Options. Now you can specify the width, height and refresh rate of the screen on which you will be playing. Mine, for example is this: -w 1024 -h 768 -refresh 100 This means I am running a resolution of 1024x768 at a refresh rate of 100hz. 6) Click OK and close the Properties window. 7) It's best to restart your computer now, since you applied that RefreshForce fix. |