Does anyone here got motion sickness by the game?

Arka · Nov 23, 2016

Does anyone here got motion sickness by the game? Or is it just me? [woah]

I do have picky stomach so I always selective on FPS game. On some FPSes I could tolerate fine, Half-life, tf2, Battlefield 3/4, Overwatch, even Elite Dangerous. I could play those games hundreds of hours and my stomach would be just fine. While on some FPS such as Far Cry 3, Space Engineers, I could not play it for more than 15 minutes without feeling nauseous.

Never in my life I have similar motion sickness issue on building game that put the camera on bird eye view (Yes I still getting that nauseous feeling even if i do not use the first person camera at all in game). Planet Coaster is the first and I'm very perplexed... I just don't understand why Planet Coaster seems to trigger my motion sickness. On some FPS games this could be fixed by adjusting FoV, turning off settings such as head bobbing. And as for Planet Coaster I've tried fiddle around with the settings and I just can't [cry] because I don't know what part of this game that triggers my motion sicknes.

So as for now, I could only play for 45 minutes. Then stop and play again next hour, two or three, until that little lingering feeling in my stomach completely gone before start new session of my Planet Coaster.

So far there's only 2 of people that have this issue, anyone here have motion sickness triggered by this game as well?

As'ault Lemming · Nov 23, 2016

You could try another monitor if toy have a spare and see if it's something to do with your monitor's refresh rate or v sync or similar? Check those settings, I think bad frame rates can cause motion sickness feelings.

Mknap · Nov 23, 2016

Yep, try different monitor, or try changing refresh rate..

Curlyriff · Nov 23, 2016

Weird, no I haven't. Sorry to hear you are and hope you get sorted so you can enjoy the game

Forgath · Nov 23, 2016

Though i do get motion sickness from many FPS games, i dont have an issue with this game.

side related: Do you have a problem with heights?

Arindel · Nov 23, 2016

I think it's because of Camera movement smoothness. If Space Engineers makes nauseous, this might be why.

WelshJester · Nov 23, 2016

I had the same problem with Dead Island and ended up barely playing it, if there's any bobbing or jerkiness of camera movements quite often then that is probably why.. I still have no clue why the odd few games feel the need to have a camera jumping all over the place with simple movements to be honest.

Arka · Nov 23, 2016

Earlier today I managed to play the game for 3 hours with the help of Wedang Jahe

Forgath said:
Though i do get motion sickness from many FPS games, i dont have an issue with this game.

side related: Do you have a problem with heights?

No problem with height, just the motion I guess.
I do have motion sickness problem with "expensive cars", but i encounter no such problem on cheap cars like this or Train

I don't know maybe it has something to do with the hydraulics and I'm not comfortable with smoothed feeling that expensive cars give.

Arindel said:
I think it's because of Camera movement smoothness. If Space Engineers makes nauseous, this might be why.

Could be... the game doesn't have option to turn off the camera movement smoothing [cry]
I'll try max out my camera movement sensitivities, let see if it gets better.

RoboSpongie · Nov 23, 2016

I've felt dizzy from some rollercoaster types from seat cams but not motion sickness

Helena · Nov 23, 2016

When I am in bad condition, I can get motion sickness. I did not play PC much last summer due to that. Things adds up. But what's worst is to ride rides (rotational) and also coasters it triggers when you are in bad condition but also the normal scrolling and panning.

Being new to a game also "helps" to add to the sickness.. until you get a grasp for the camera control.

Fiddle with sensitivity of mouse, how quick it should move helps too. Both for the mouse in windows, and for the camera movements.

Back in time I remember when having CRT and having too low Hertz setting flickering, quite taxing on eyes. But not much so anymore with flat screen.

Powerblazing · Nov 23, 2016

yeah, i know, my mother has the same problem.... feel sorry for you dude hahah...hope you can solve it, maybe some glasses could help?

Arka · Nov 24, 2016

Yeah it's the smoothed camera movement that triggers my nausea

I wish there's a way to remove the smoothing, and just give me straight camera movement...

The only solution that worked for me so far is by extending the range from my eyes to the monitor but this really put strains to my hand [blah] really need to change my setup to accomodate this

funny_speed_spin · Nov 24, 2016

I got motion sickness due to the banking of the coasters =( This un-natural stair move from angle to angle on smaller and compact coasters seem nothing to be that works fine with me. Especially when the train is fast.
Camera movements are fine to me, just the banking triggers the nausea.

furryhawk · Nov 24, 2016

I get motion sickness from the "looking ahead" onride cammera.

CMDR JP76 · Nov 24, 2016

Hi elliv,
I'm new to the forum and coaster games, I was having the same problem as you, i googled it and found your post!
The first few days I played yup, the camera movement whilst building made me feel awful lol!

As Mknap suggested above, I changed my refresh rate from 60 to 59.....something, and I was fine all day yesterday, no nausea!
I'm not sure if that's what helped or I just got more used to myself zooming tell camera around!.......Oh I also turned off vsync.

Give them a try.

JP

Arka · Nov 24, 2016

JP Design said:
Hi elliv,
I'm new to the forum and coaster games, I was having the same problem as you, i googled it and found your post!
The first few days I played yup, the camera movement whilst building made me feel awful lol!

As Mknap suggested above, I changed my refresh rate from 60 to 59.....something, and I was fine all day yesterday, no nausea!
I'm not sure if that's what helped or I just got more used to myself zooming tell camera around!.......Oh I also turned off vsync.

Give them a try.

JP

Oh I guess I'm famous now [haha] just googled myself and this thread were on first row.

By the way I've tried play around with 2 other different monitors and refreshrate/vsync thingy, still having it.

The fix for me was by increasing the distance from my eyes to the monitor, I've tweaked my computer setup and pushed my monitor further back, I finally can play PlanetCoaster for hours without upsetting my stomach. The cons, it put more strains on my eyes [praise] But I guess it's better than having to stop every half hour. I do hope FDev put options to disable camera movement smoothing one day,

Storm__Warning · Nov 25, 2016

I haven't picked up the game yet, but have been watching a lot of gameplay videos on YT. I'm pregnant and pretty susceptible to motion sickness normally anyway, but only one thing has set me off, and it's a video of the rapids from the front of the tube looking backwards. I had to stop, couldn't watch it. I do like to be facing forward when I'm feeling sick though. Actual rapids, though, no problems. Before the big accident at Dreamworld, that was my favourite ride, and somehow I always ended up being the one going backwards!

CMDR JP76 · Nov 25, 2016

I don't personally have any issues with nausea whilst in first person or on ride cameras, I love that stuff.
The problem I had was with the general movement of the camera whilst building a park or moving around.

If you use the mouse wheel a lot to zoom or move forward, eventually you get to a point where the camera movements become super sensitive, maybe because we are zoomed all the way in?
At that point it's kind of hard to figure out how to 'reset' the camera veiw/movement.
Is there a key for that by the way?

Maybe options for camera smoothing or speed adjustment would help some people too. [happy]