Title says it all. I cannot play this game for more than fifteen minutes at a time due to head bob. If I continue to play, I progressively feel more ill--nauseous, like with motion sickness. I have tried adjusting my field of view and playing in borderless windowed mode to reduce stutter. The game runs perfectly fine on my machine at max graphics, but this one silly feature--head bob--is preventing me from playing.

I have not experienced this problem with any other game, whether with head bob or not. I am confident that head bob is the problem here, though, because I do not feel ill if I play in third person mode. I'd prefer not to play the game in third person mode, though. The third person view in this game is clunky and difficult to use in combat.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to see an option to disable head bob in first person mode. Please Bethesda?

If you become ill while playing ANY game you should consider visiting a doctor, there's no way that a head-bob that most of the people do not notice makes you become nauseous.

This is wholly untrue. Many people are very sensitive to this type of motion in games. It's the same type of thing that makes people carsick.

Once the construction kit is released, I'm sure modders on the Nexus will add in a toggle. Unfortunately, nothing is possible yet.

What you can do is increase the FOV to 90 or so. This helps many people, as it makes the bob much less noticeable.

Edit your Fallout4.ini and Fallout4Prefs.ini. Under the [Display] section in both files, add or edit:

fDefaultWorldFOV=90

fDefault1stPersonFOV=90

Values can be set at pretty much whatever you wish, but 90 is a good way of relieving the motion while not "fishbowling" the overall view too much.

Whoops -- just saw you've done this. Not sure why the devs can't just release a hotfix for this. It's been requested so many times.

Only thing I know from own experience is if one need specs, that makes the problem with getting nauseated by head bobbing worse but the specs does not remove the problem, only makes the play sessions last a bit longer. Only real cures are either not playing (really bad solution) or remove head bobbing.

Well, while we're on the topic:

Motion sickness usually comes from one of 2 things -- a hyper-sensitive inner ear, or the way your brain processes motion in your peripheral vision.

I'm very slightly in the latter category, as are most people who get sick from a visual cue. I can ride roller-coasters. I've been on boats (big and small) numerous times. I used to do martial arts requiring rolls, spins, and leaps. I've been skydiving 6 times. I've ridden in an decommissioned F-15 and been through snap rolls and split-S turns...

Nothing. Not a thing. I can simply enjoy the ride. Games don't bother me at all. What gets me is trying to read or write in a car. Not trains or jets or buses or boats...just small land vehicles. Can't do it. I vomited on multiple occasions when I was younger.

The secret, which I discovered when I was almost 30, was blocking my peripheral vision. On a bus, boat, or jet, you don't see the motion out the window on both sides of your head, so you're brain doesn't really process the fact that you're moving through your eyes. In a car or truck, your peripheral vision is detecting motion on all sides. When your eye tries to find a focal point, your brain detects motion on the periphery but an unmoving point at your focus and gets dizzy/nauseous/etc. It can't tell if you're standing still or not. If you block your peripheral vision, it helps the brain to focus on only "point" at a time and gets rid of the pseudo-motion it thinks is happening. If I put sunglasses on -- I can read or write in a car without issue. It creates a near-focus field that my eye detects and treats everything I see in my periphery like a movie screen.

TL;DR

Block out your peripheral vision by playing in the dark or try putting on a pair of sunglasses while you play (just don't use polarized lenses). Either way, try to make the screen the only focal point and remove anything (especially things that might be moving on their own -- like a clock pendulum or whatever) from your peripheral vision. See if that makes it better.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried playing in the dark, but it didn't help. Not about to start wearing sunglasses while playing a game. Or take drugs. (Yes, it has been recommended on other forums that people who get motion sick while playing a game take OTC drugs to prevent it.) All I wants is a toggle. That can't be so hard, and it seems to me there's a sizable group that would appreciate it.

Have you tried disabling the motion blur effect? We don't know for defo it is, and is only head bobbing in Fallout 4 that's the issue. Their blurring might not be helping you to.

Yep, disabled radial blur, depth of field, and bokeh.

I don't know if that's any helpful, so post it here:

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/3401110-lets-kill-headbob/

The Nexus knows all about this. Check any forum online and you'll quickly find thousands of people asking for this. As soon as the Construction Kit is released, someone will mod it out.