Things that help me:

Limiting my playtime to 45-60 minute sessions then doing something else for a couple hours.
Sitting about three feet from my laptop screen.
Playing in third person makes my symptoms worse so I always play in first.
Closing my eyes and turning my head away from the screen whenever my character needs to climb up or down a stairwell. The stairs to Uptown in The Pitt were murder on me even with my eyes shut.

If you're on PC, try changing the FoV to 90, the default makes me a little queasy after a while on a large, widescreen monitor.

Its simple to handle... just pause the game and stare at a wall for a bit to recombobulate your brain/eye thingamaboob.

Some games will trigger it some wont and certain combos of settings will cause it.

If you get it drop aa down or out completely and get rid of shadows. Put a brighter bulb/bulbs in your room and lower the brightness of your monitor. be sure to pause fairly often to look away from the screen and roll your eyes about/close your eyes. Be sure to look at some stuff in your room as far away from you as possible.

so that's the reason every-time i played Just Cause 2 for more than a hour my head would feel like someones trying to cave it in with a hammer, its got screen bob and you cant turn it off..

omg I get this too! Not all the time, but like.. you know in FO3 where you climb to the top of the satcon towers, and you're walking around the rim of them? I tried to "peek" over the edge and felt physically sick to my stomach, I had to turn it off and go out for a walk. Came back, did the same thing again, same reaction - complete physical vertigo. Horrible

@OP - Here are some things done to prevent this.

- Bright rooms.

- Turn the color on the TV down a bit.

- Eating.

- Lots of WATER.

- Exercise isn't confirmed really. You can try though.

- Take 20 minute breaks every 45 minutes.

- PM me if you need to and I will assist you to the best of my ability.

- Happy gaming and I hope it stops.

Hi Mate, you have motion sickness , as mentioned by a couple of other guys. I get this when playing certain fps games. I got it on oblivion when i upgraded my characters speed too high! I had to go back a couple of saves to when he was slower to play the game without feeling awful! I am currently getting this on resident evil 5 and thats a third person game. ( I am also a terrible traveller and get car sick, even going round the block if i'm not the driver!) Doh! I'm not sure whether this is related or not!

Luckily i never got this on fo3 as the character moves slower so it's definately a speed thing for me, hopefully i'll be ok on this new game!

Good luck!!

Sometimes when I play fast moving games like Forza or when I run in Call of Duty my eyes start to hurt, one rare occasions I get dizzy to the point I have to take breaks, this hasn't happened on Fallout though.

Thank you all for all your tips and suggestions. I do not drink alcohol, so that option I can't not use. :foodndrink: I never herd about drinking lots and lots of water, so I will try that. Never realy liked ginger, except for Canada Dry Ginger ale, but I will try it. Never herd of the staring at a blank wall, I will try that as well.

I believe I forgot to mention, I will be getting this for the 360, since I don't think my laptop will handle it well, even though I have the minimum settings I beleive. I guess there would be no difference between the PS3 and the 360 would there?

Thank you all, you have been really helpfull. Please keep them coming.

I don't have any suggestions, but the best of luck to you!



And now I know what I get when I spectate other people in Team Fortress 2.

This. The Source engine makes me want to vomit (literally). I get nausea and pulse-pounding headaches when I first start playing them. Something about the FOV I think, which is pretty ridiculously narrow in the Source engine by default. Setting the FOV higher or just gritting my teeth and dealing with it for several hours usually makes it go away until I go several days between playing, then it returns.

I will sometimes get a little lightheaded if I play for more than an hour at a time in a room with the lights off. It's rare though and I'm usually fine with all perspectives and forms of movement in games. The worst thing that affects me is probably just the eye strain so I like some form of light around anyways, that's why I usually turn on the TV if the lights are off.

Try to stay away from The Strip though man... :wacko:

If you have ventrilo or teamspeak and know some people online, talking with them while you're playing may also help to keep your mind a little less centered on the game, much like talking to someone while riding in a car if you get car sick.

It is fps lag and head bob.

Play in third person, do not "whip" the camera about frantically for no reason and try to get as many FPS as you can. (might need a newer computer)

no, no, no. do NOT let up on the doctor. YOU know your body better than they ever will, and if there is something wrong, you can't let them tell you it's all fine.

i tried for eight years to explain that there was something not right with me, and doctors never listened. they just listened to my mom and treated me for ADHD. things got progressively worse, until finally a teacher of mine noticed something was going on. he and the school nurse pushed my parents, my parents pushed the doctors, and FINALLY the doctors did some tests they'd never tried before. long story short, i'd been having absence seizures for years, which was why i couldn't focus on school work, and the ADHD drugs were actually making things much, much worse.

this [censored] happens all the time. DO NOT let up.

I will take this into consideration. Thanks. Next time, I go see the doctor I will let her know again.

Yep I have it as well.


Yep, all of those things help. I set a timer and never play more than two hours at a time. First person helps a lot. Don't ride horses or drive vehicles in games. That seems to make mine much worse. And never play when very tired.

It sort of svcks when you want to keep playing and must stop. I can play two hours and take two hours away most days without a problem as long as I'm not tired and the camera angle isn't in 3rd person. Some are just the oppisite with first person making them sick more than third. So try different angles when playing to find one that bothers you least.

This especially.

I have also heard that the symptoms sometimes lessen with time (meaning that eventually you might be able to play longer before feeling the symptoms.)

This is true. I only experience nausea when playing Source engine games, but I can build up a tolerance to where it goes away if I play a little longer each time after the nausea kicks in. First time 30 minutes, the next 45, then an hour, 2 hours, etc. until I can play marathon sessions in those games with no ill effects. If I don't play the games for a week or two the nausea returns when I play them though. Just be sure you are really combating motion or traveler's sickness and not something more serious before you try and "push through".