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Hi, after first minutes of gameplay i get dizzy, head pain occured and general well-being was under question mark. Does anyone know how to counter camera work in game to prevent motion sickness? \
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Raszyd_Goldberg: Hi, after first minutes of gameplay i get dizzy, head pain occured and general well-being was under question mark. Does anyone know how to counter camera work in game to prevent motion sickness? \
Sorry to say I never have figured out anything that really works well...

Elex only gives me mild motion sickness fortunately.
Keeping the camera zoomed out as much as possible helps
and trying not to spin around a lot helps too

I've heard various other things for other games that never really seemed to help
though sometimes I think if the FPS is kind of low but not bad it can cause issues too
Something about what you are seeing not quite matching up with what your brain expectsed or something like that
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Raszyd_Goldberg: Hi, after first minutes of gameplay i get dizzy, head pain occured and general well-being was under question mark. Does anyone know how to counter camera work in game to prevent motion sickness? \
Assuming you are using a mouse, advocate for adding an option to disable the acceleration/inertia that the camera control currently has when using a mouse.

I felt this from the first second I touched the mouse in game, and it indeed induces a slight nausea even for me who doesn't usually have any trouble with FPS games. I guess the reason is related to your brain expecting the view to move at the pace you move the mouse, but since it has inertia the view "drags behind" and your brain has trouble adjusting to that thus creating the feeling of dizzyness. My brain fortunately is able to adapt and it only takes a little while to get used to it, but this is highly subjective unfortunately.

The inertia makes sense with a controller where you don't control the speed of the camera rotation directly anyway, but I have no idea why it is enabled for mouse camera control.
I've never experienced it personally--I play with a computer. Quite a few have the problem with VR or Stereoscopic glasses, though. I can only suggest until PB fixes the camera that you turn on vsync in the event that you currently have it off to see if that makes a difference for you. Don't know if it will, but it seemed a possibility.
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Raszyd_Goldberg: Hi, after first minutes of gameplay i get dizzy, head pain occured and general well-being was under question mark. Does anyone know how to counter camera work in game to prevent motion sickness? \
See if lowering the mouse sensitivity helps. I assume much of the jumping around is because the mouse jumping up and down, right? That's a common thing, especially today because the gaming mice are made to be super sensitive to keep up with gamers playing multiplayer 1st person shooters.

However, the more casual games like these don't need athletic hand-eye coordination, but the mouse is still super sensitive, and so you get this jumping around sensation as you're trying to look around, keep your eyes on something, and aim your ranged weapon.

So, my suggestion is to slow down your mouse as much as possible, and then adjust it faster until you're comfortable with the movements.

You can adjust mouse sensitivity in windows, and within the game settings. This game calls it camera speed.

As for the choppiness of the graphics, that's more of a hardware issue, meaning the better performing graphics card you have, the less choppiness you'll have. Having more RAM helps a lot too, if you're using under 16GB. Any higher and you're still having problems means it's not an insufficient RAM issue.

Be sure your computer isn't using the default CPU's onboard graphics for the game and is indeed using your GPU card for the graphics. With Nvidia cards, you have to use the Nvidia control panel, and open the 'manage 3D settings option.' Then you can go through the pull-down list of programs. If Elex2 isn't there add it by browsing to the Elex2.exe file where the game is installed. It's in the game system folder. I don't remember what the CPU onboard graphics is for AMD. Duckduckgo search it. The point is to make sure the computer is using the graphics card for Elex2. Even if you're using a desktop, more and more of them are also being given CPUs with inferior onboard graphics. So, you have to make sure your games aren't using the inferior hardware.

Next, and this really does help. Eyeballing it, I saw probably about 10 to 20% improvement. Make sure the Elex2 process is running with high priority. I would press ctrl alt del to open the task manager in Windows, and I'd sometimes have to keep fighting the game until I finally got back to my desktop while the game is running, and in task manager I'd set the Elex2 process to high priority. This also keeps it from crashing for me.

Now, after some duckduckgo searches, I created a batch file that opens Elex2 and automatically runs it with high priority. That way I don't have to keep doing it manually, because Elex2 didn't like allowing me to go to the desktop while it's still running.

Oh, and finally lower your game display settings too. That helps a little bit, maybe 20% improvement from highest to lowest settings. You can use a lower resolution. However, you may want to choose one with same aspect ratio if the screen is distorted. For example, if your monitor is usually 1920x1080, I believe the next lower common resolution that is the same aspect ratio is 1280x760, or something like that. Lowering the resolution used to work really well with older games, but not so much with newer games. In this game, it seemed to help a little.

Good luck.

Oh, I see. You're talking about Elex, not Elex2. All this will probably help with Elex as well.
Post edited March 10, 2022 by Doof1234
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Raszyd_Goldberg: Hi, after first minutes of gameplay i get dizzy, head pain occured and general well-being was under question mark. Does anyone know how to counter camera work in game to prevent motion sickness? \
It's the stupid mouse motion smoothing that renders the game unplayable to me. The mouse just doesn't start moving the camera straight away, it waits for a split second for some reason which makes no sense and makes the game feel unresponsive thus probably causing motion sickness. To me it just makes me not want to play the game anymore because it makes me angry. And I wished to enjoy another Piranha Bytes game so much...