It would be greatly appreciated. It could be considered accessibility. Regardless, it’s just an oversight to not include this. I don’t care if my game looks ugly, I just want to be able to play without forced anti aliasing so that I don’t get motion sick. I paid for your game, I would like to play it! Please Blizz, there are a lot of us who would rejoice if you just added this option. Thank you.
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got game in october, havent been able to play because of motion sickness, make forum post about it six months later….
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Motion sickness… is a hell of a drug. Knocked him out cold for 6 months apparently.
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I played on and off but eventually couldn’t stomach it anymore. I love Diablo but not more than wanting to puke lol.
Now with Season 4 changes looking really good I want to play again, but not if I can’t turn that nasty AA off.
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How the hell do you get motion sick from the minimum AA option to no AA? What makes you think AA has anything to do with your condition? Are you playing on a TV (from a PC), for instance?
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I get it, my fiancé has motion sickness on certain video games, and once it kicks in she has to lay down to get it to stop. It’s no joke, if she wants to play certain games, mostly FPS, but there are others, she has to take Dramamine before playing and wait for it to kick in.
She’s suffered from motion sickness since she was a child though. She also can’t be a passenger in the car for longer drives, she has to be the one driving if it’s a long drive. Basically I get to be chauffeured around. 
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Glad Iggi gave the response he did. For everyone giving this dude a hard time, seriously back off. Stop being so aggressively toxic towards everyone that posts any idea or opinion here.
He has a valid point anyway. There is zero legitimate reasoning for locking PC players out of being able to disable Anti-Aliasing. And if it bothers him enough for him to make a post about it then they should listen. Just because not very many people suffer from it doesn’t mean the ones that do don’t struggle to enjoy their favorite games because of it.
I 100% support your idea to allow for more accessibility and customization when it comes to in game settings. It should have already been an option. I hope Blizzard listens.
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It’s lame because they all want to make fun of it but if they actually experienced it and had to give up gaming it would turn their worlds upside down. I play what I can, and I stick to mostly fighting games but like I said before, I love Diablo and i want to continue loving it for as long as I can.
Being able to fully disable AA would not hurt anyone’s experience, and would only benefit those who wish to turn it off. It’s a strange post to get toxic about but some people just want to troll for the sake of being toxic.
I really hope Blizz eventually allows this as it would be a huge quality of life improvement for not just me but a lot of people! So Blizz, please consider us too!
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For the fiancé she knows for certain FPS games will trigger it, but games such as the FF7 Remake Intergrade, she had problems with. Soon as it kicked in she was pretty much done for the night. Nothing I can do to help it either, except mostly leave her alone and make sure I don’t bother her too much. Even trying to hug her when she’s in that state can be bad, just a simple swaying motion can make it worse once it’s already set in.
Agreed, and I will always support more options in the game, even if I never intend to use them. Honestly hope they implement this for you and others like you, or just people in general who want to turn it off. 
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aa has absolutely nothing to do with motion sickness
Appreciate it! And yeah I know that pain all too well haha. 2 hours groaning on the couch lmao. All for the love of the game though.
I’ll keep keeping my fingers crossed cause yeah I agree, more options benefits everyone!
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For you, no, for some like the OP it absolutely does. It’s hard to explain to some one who has never had it. I suffer very rarely from it, there are actually things that will make me take a step back, but it doesn’t hit nearly as hard as my fiancé or the OP for that matter. Give me 10 minutes and I’m typically good.
AA reduces jagged edges, makes things look more smooth. In fast paced games like Diablo this can create a motion blur effect. People with motion sickness can’t focus on one point to help keep themselves centered, the screen just literally moves in a blur and it messes up their equilibrium. It may take a few minutes to kick in depending on the activity you’re doing, but once it’s there you can’t stop it by just not playing the game, it takes time, and it sucks.
Just because you don’t personally suffer from it, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening to others. Color bindless while more on the rare side, affects gamers as well, and they’ve added in color blind options for such people. There’s nothing wrong with asking for an option if it helps some one else enjoy the game without getting sick.
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Not heard of AA being a factor for “DIMS”. The usual culprits are motion blur, screen shake and a narrow FOV.
If game settings aren’t enough these goofy looking “horizon” glasses might be of help for some.
[(https://www.amazon.com/Hion-Sickness-Carsickness-Airsickness-Seasickness/dp/B0BVYQCHJ7)]
How do you actually know it’s AA? What in the world does anti-aliasing have to do with motion sickness?
Do we know this person doesn’t just have a crappy monitor? Or can’t maintain some sort of fps and doesn’t use gsync or freesync or whatever?
I’d give them the benefit of the doubt if they’ve had similar games they’ve played that didn’t have a motion blur setting they could turn off, but had AA on, and turning it off helped them. They would know better then I would what triggers their motion sickness.
Not saying a better monitor wouldn’t help, or any number of programs, I just don’t honestly know.
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Not sure if this will work but there are GPU options that you can edit globally or per game, and it might allow more customization than in game. I know Nvidia GPUs have some control console program that allows this customization.
There are tons of types of Anti Aliasing. The most common that games use are FXAA / MSAA and TAA. FXAA just softens everything, MSAA does the best job of removing jagged edges but has a very high performance cost. Temporal AA is a very cost efficient way of removing jagged edges but it introduces motion blur. This effect in D4 is subtle, but it makes me nauseous. That’s just the way it is lol. All TAA makes me nauseous in any game and when I turn it off everything is great again.
This post is for the people who are sensitive to motion blur which is introduced by TAA. And this isn’t some like big myth. Just google TAA motion blur and you will get a thousand results across every game that uses it. Not to mention, even if we forget about all the motion sick stuff, TAA just looks bad anyways because it smears the image.
I’ve been dealing with motion sickness from games for a long time and TAA is a plague on modern games right now. They seem to all try and use it. But most let you turn it off. You can try all the different upscalers like DLAA / AMD Fidelity etc but none of them remove the TAA. The devs could add an option to fully disable anti-aliasing which would make the game a bit uglier but I don’t see the problem there. Everyone benefits. I really don’t understand the pushback here. If you know adding an option to the game you would never use would benefit someone else greatly, why wouldn’t you want it?
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Remember the areas where you can stand on a symbol and the camera would pan out to OVERLOOK an area?
I think one was in the Ancient City and the other was out there in the Desert somewhere, that was awesome.
Other then that I don’t really recall any kind of feeling of getting sick from motions… Though I probably need to play the campaign again…
It is strange they don’t have a no AA option. The sort of people they are you might get that introduced on accessibility grounds. Post in the technical support forum.