I don't know what's wrong with me but I've realised that I feel sick when I'm playing ego-shooters and some other games. PC or Xbox - no matter where and how - I feel very bad after 10 minutes. Some kind of stupid seasickness.

It's so stupid! I can't play a bunch of cool games because of this. I couldn't even play Portal because I felt sick all the time. At the same time I can spend hours on other games. Age of Conan, League of Legend, Diablo, Assassins Creed, The Witcher - all that was fine. But it's always getting critical when my character is in some kind of labyrinth or corridor.

Does anyone else have such a problem? I'm not joking. Is there something I can do about it without giving up on gaming?

It's a real thing.

First of all, get your eyes checked. You could be having vision issues that are worsened by staring at a computer monitor.

Second, it could be the difference between what you're seeing, and what you're feeling. Meaning that your eyes are seeing movement, but your ears and body are not feeling the moving, so it's disorienting and you get dizzy. I don't know what the fix for that is. You might need to sit farther from your monitor so you can see the room around you or something. I'm not sure.

It could be a variant on motion sickness.

Glasses or contact lenses may help, changing lighting may help. Just playing more might help, but you will likely throw up.

On fairly random occasions the first time I play a game I will have mild motion sickness symptoms. I go lie down for a while the come back and play the game without further issues. This only happens the very first time I play a particular game. I don't have this in later sessions with the same game.

Steam's Source engine based games are the usual culprits but it can happen with other game engines  too.

It happened to me during GW2 and Alan Wake.

I was able to "fix" the situation by not looking at my character in conjunction with the surroundings and just lookinat at where I was going. I then got used to the motioin and that was that.

Originally posted by MightyBee

I don't know what's wrong with me but I've realised that I feel sick when I'm playing ego-shooters and some other games. PC or Xbox - no matter where and how - I feel very bad after 10 minutes. Some kind of stupid seasickness.

It's so stupid! I can't play a bunch of cool games because of this. I couldn't even play Portal because I felt sick all the time. At the same time I can spend hours on other games. Age of Conan, League of Legend, Diablo, Assassins Creed, The Witcher - all that was fine. But it's always getting critical when my character is in some kind of labyrinth or corridor.

Does anyone else have such a problem? I'm not joking. Is there something I can do about it without giving up on gaming?

It is not entirely uncommon. Ginger usually help as well as car sickness medication.

Do you get carsick or seasick as well?

Well lit room helps.

If any of those games let you adjust the "degree of vision" or "degree of scope" it can help a lot ot widen or tighten up that setting. 

Back when racing games created depth of vision with cutout style graphics and what not their spinning used to mess with my vision to the point I couldn't play them. Newer games actually render the distance and it doesn't happen at all. But I still don't really play racing games.

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by MightyBee

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It is not entirely uncommon. Ginger usually help as well as car sickness medication.

Do you get carsick or seasick as well?

I second the recommendation of ginger. For the past 30+ years I've been getting headaches and nausea while reading on planes, trains and automobiles. Keep plenty of ginger ale and ginger snap cookies in the house, it does work. And tastes better than cola and chocolate cream filled sandwich cookies.

This is actually very real and even famous game designers like Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid series suffers from it.

Hideo commented that due to 'Simulation sickness' that he couldn't play Half Life2.

1st known observation is in the 1970s when some US airforce pilots grew ill when doing virtual reality training.

I suffer from some as well.

It is not entirely uncommon. Ginger usually help as well as car sickness medication.

Do you get carsick or seasick as well?

Wow, guys, thanks! I feel better alone from knowing that I'm not the only one to have this.

Yes, I have my eyes checked regularly, and I wear glases. I thought it might be the reason, but I wear them while playing, so... no idea.

Seasick - no, carsick - very seldom, when I sit in the back and feel hungry. Ginger sound cool and natural. I'm going to give it a try tonight. It would be a little bit strange to take the car sickness medication every time I'm playing games... 

Hours.... I wish it happend after hours of playing...

I feel sick after 3 minutes. 

Let's try ginger. I really hope this will help.

Well i feel sick after a while on my night's off. I work 3rd shift and naturally just keep my sleeping hours the same everyday. I have a media room setup with my pc hooked up to it. I play in a dim room on a 100 inch screen. I always start to feel sick after so many hours and hafta turn off the game and swich over to tv and just lay on my side waiting for me to feel better. Even after awhile just scrolling text up and down on websights i tend to get migranes.

I also feel dizzy when i get up after awhile, and tend to yawn alot around like 2am till i go to bed. But i keep my self awake, cause im OSD when it comes to sleeping same hours each day i guss.