Black & White Makes Me Sick !!!

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Dramamine

[blackhawk]

Get them in the drugstore, gravol or dramamine.

[Cryo]

I've seen this kind of thing before and from my experience there has been one common thread... bad monitors. If the refresh rate on your monitor is too slow or too high (usually has to be REALLY REALLY high) common side effects of long term exposure can be nasuea and dizzyness. Try messing around with different resolutions and refresh rates and see if that helps. I am the only biology major (well biotechnology actually, soon to be in med-school) in the Game Development Club at my college and when a number of the guys started popping asprin and other pain killers at the last LAN party for this particular problem that is the solution I came up with. Its simple enough and most felt better within a few hours or so.

[Solstice]

Actually Cyro has a point. A poor refresh rate or low frame rate can actually add to your diziness. With a poor frame rate your brain is constantly trying to interpet which direction you are moving based upon disjoint visual data. Say, for example, that in one frame you are standing in front of a tree, and in the next frame the tree is beside you. Your brain must fill in the missing data. This can cause diziness and disorientation when you end up somewhere your brain wasn't expecting. That's how people get car sick. They don't watch the road, they don't know where they are going, and turns are made in directions their brain isn't pre-aware of.

[Cryo]

runk Couldn't even spell my name right huh?? :B

"CRYO" :-)

[Kazer]

I know my monitor can spit out the high refresh rates but I don't know if W2K is doing it at the resolution I set it at. How can I check in a game what refresh rate it's doing ?

[Solstice]

Of course I can't spell.... my hero is Ralph Wiggum.