EVE General Discussion

When she tries to play Eve after about 5 minutes she starts getting super dizzy and cannot even look at the screen. She really wants to play and she is actually going to talk to her doctor about it next time she goes. It doesn't seem to ever happen on other games we play.

Was wondering if any one else has had a similar issue and if you guys know of anything that can help?

o/

hope you can find a solution OP!
it's always nice sharing a game we love with the people we care for!

good luck o7

Sounds like "simulator sickness". That article suggests some things that may or may not help. I hope it's something minor, 99 times out of 100 it is.

I can not play EVE on full detail graphics because it makes me nauseous. I have to play in almost potato mode. There are several things that can cause it. For me and EVE its the interplay of the Ship graphics and the background, which is lessened when i Lower the quality. I have the same thing when I play Elder Scrolls, in that game its the field of view.

I would suggest trying different graphic setting.

These travelbands seem like a good idea, thanks mate.

Try disabling roughly everything in camera options - those that make it shake, bob, zoom around and such.

Alternatively, cover all the screen with windows. The space-part can be played well enough from the overview, and EvE has many more aspects than the internet spaceships.

At first I was going to say what fun would EVE be if you had to be stoned to play it, then i realized that is a solid gold solution.

Perhaps she is too close to the screen or the screen is too big?

Over the last year my landlord left an Xbox 360 in the house and I hooked it up and took the opportunity to buy some used Halo games and catch up on the genre. I like some good FPS actions once in a while.

But what I found was this: originally the house had an old 25" CRT television but during a power outage the crazy landlord hooked up a generator wrong and totally baked the TV. So he went and replace it with some monster sized flat screen thing.

So when I started using that to play the FPS game, I started to get sick. (Being an old hat to seasickness from having worked for a retired Navy SEAL in the SCUBA field, I soldiered on out of habit for in those days I could barf in mid-sentence and still finish what I was saying).

In looking this matter up, it would appear that screen size and "field of view" play into this. I have seen some critiques of FPS games and VR whereby too narrow a FOV will cause motion sickness.


Therefore, see if you can adapt the FOV and or experiment a bit with the distance from the screen. That might help.

Thanks for the feedback all, I will work on all the camera and graphics settings and see if it helps any, she probably won't like the idea as she likes having all the "pretty stuff" turned way up on her games. Ordering a motion sickness bracelet too.

Under Display+Graphics/Camera Settings, turn off:
Camera Shake
Camera Bobbing
Dynamic Camera Movement