Any Of You Guys Had D I M S Playing Fps?

[BaDToaD]

I was just thinking, if Quake III comes to the Pandora I'll have to play through the DIMS barrier if I want to get good enough to not get wiped out online LOL.

I've never had DIMS with any other FPS as none of them are fast enough. Q3 RA3 takes me a few days to get into though and the DIMS attacks can be quite severe, although nothing worse than having to stop playing for a bit.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

Unfortunately, I get MS with almost every FPS


It's really bad with PC/Wii. I guess it has to do with my other arm moving around the mouse/wiimote?

 

[satanic virus]

DCGM - MS = Multiple Sclerosis , or are we talking about different things? EDIT - sorry DCGM I realise now you mean Motion Sickness. I am a disability manager in Ireland and MS is shorthand for multiple sclerosis over here! Just a difference in terminology

Years ago playing Doom and Wolfenstein on my PC I used to feel a bit yuck after playing a while, but really think I was just sitting too close to the monitor! I mainly use consoles now for games and have been fine playing FPS's on the TV. Although I remember playing Doom on my GP2X used to make me feel a bit woozy after a while ... the size of the screen might have something to do with it.

 

[Sphinxter]

After about six hours playing hexen in a vr helmet, probably low blood sugar, had the neatest controller plugged into the back of the helmet, a hockey puck you would hold and press a button to center it and then tilt and roll to move, would react to your head movement, so worth it. Little coarse screens on your eyes, kidneys soar from being fragged in the boom chair, ferocious headaches.

 

[senquack]

I had this cool job mowing lawns but then this jerk started hooking me up to a virtual reality system on one of those giant body gyroscope things. Monkeys were after me and then it all got kinda blurry.

 

[Nova]

Like Dcgm. most FPS's give me horrible DIMS, which is a shame. But it's not just FPS's either, sometimes I get it with games like GTA

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

Like Dcgm. most FPS's give me horrible DIMS, which is a shame. But it's not just FPS's either, sometimes I get it with games like GTA

Yeah, I experienced it with GTA4 in such situations where I was trying to find a location on the map that seemingly didn't exist. I had to run around in circles, drop down to lower levels, etc before finding the blip. Gave me some pretty bad feelings.

 

[gaterooze]

Deus Ex was the worst MS I've experienced. Still struggled through it

 

[sam fisher]

Deus Ex was the worst MS I've experienced. Still struggled through it

Ditto on that one.

 

[Parkydr]

The only thing that has given me motion sickness is xcruiser. There's even a warning in the readme.

 

[fishybawb]

I'm generally fine, unless I'm hungover. I remember a particularly unfortunate incident involving entirely too much grappa and Quake... Not pretty.

 

[Null]

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TES4: Oblivion + manipulating stats so you can jump really high + jumping off a cliff + not liking heights = :blink:

But then I can't complain since it was self inflicted.
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[kevcal]

I get the problem with some FPS games but not others - thought I was just too close to the screen or getting a bit too immersed...
It's even worse watching someone else play though!!
Anyone have any tips on avoiding this?

 

[plopperz]

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

Without the use of drugs, thanks. It's foolish to take medication whenever you want to play a freaking video game


I've wanted to try those armbands, but they're expensive and I won't cough up the money unless I can test them out first.

 

[icurafu]

I get it from time to time. Last time was STALKER in the dark underground, with only a flashlight.

 

[Null]

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/motion-...ness-000110.htm

Disclaimer: Methods may not work.
Extra disclaimer: IANAD

 

[gaterooze]

Anyone have any tips on avoiding this?

On PC (CRT monitors at least), adjusting the refresh rate to 75-85hz helps for me.

 

[Goity]

I don't get motion sickness from FPSes too much (only occasionally, and it depends on the game), but where things buzz and go mad on screen and you can't stop them (see Laser Hockey on Wii Play for this), that makes me feel awful. I can't play Laser Hockey on Wii Play, because it makes me want to throw up.

 

[kevcal]

Anyone have any tips on avoiding this?

On PC (CRT monitors at least), adjusting the refresh rate to 75-85hz helps for me.
I'll look into that - thanks - I think my CRT is at a high res so had to set it to 60Hz - will lower res and up the freq and see if it helps