Hey all. Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I was wondering if anyone had a similar issue, or knew what was causing this issue.
I played Classic at launch, stopped for a few months, came back and got a Hunter to level 50 before stopping again. Afterwords I upgraded to a new PC. My old rig had an i5-4690k 3.5ghz, 16gb ram 3200 speed, GTX 1660xc 6gb(I believe it was 6gb), and my new rig has an i7-10700k 3.8ghz, 16gb DDR4 3200, RTX 2070 Super 8gb.
After I upgraded to the new PC, I finally decided to resub to Classic about two weeks ago to make the final push to 60 on my Hunter. Ever since I started playing again though I’ve been suffering from horrible light-headedness and headaches. They only seem to plague me when I’m playing WoW though. I’m fine watching videos or playing other games or playing something on my PS4. When I play WoW/WoW Classic for more than like 20 minutes though the light-headed feeling comes in hard and makes me feel like crap, and only starts to subside once I get off.
I’m curious if there is a particular setting in the game that is causing this? Or if anyone has had similar experiences, what was the cause and how did they solve the problem? I wanna keep playing the game, but not if it comes at the cost of feeling like garbage every time I do. Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated and thanks in advanced.
You obviously just wanted to tell people your pc specs
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If that’s what you want to think then you no longer need to be part of this topic.
I posted my specs thinking it might give someone a better understanding of what’s wrong. I know about hardware, but I don’t know the finer points of the stuff, so I don’t know what things cause what effects, etc…
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Do you wear glasses while playing??
I had the same issue before, the easiest cure believe it or not was take 1 pill of allergy medicine. I know that sounds odd, but it worked for me.
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Yes I wear glasses. Although my glasses are meant for over-all use, my eye doctor said they lean more towards seeing things beyond arms reach. But I’ve had these glasses for longer than I’ve had the new PC, so it would seem kind of odd that in just the last week or so it started giving me issues. Granted, eyes change as we get older but to change that drastically in less than a year since getting the new specs.
Try taking an allergy pill, I know it sounds odd.
Check that your monitor has anti-blue light or eye saving mode. I was getting migraines and stuff with monitor set normal. Once I turned the blue light filter on, it stopped.
If this is your first time experiencing higher frame-rates, that can cause people motion-sickness. You might consider some over-the-counter motion sickness meds until you get used to it.
In addition to some of the suggestions here, every 10 min look at something 20 feet away for 20-30sec.
I’m sure you’ve already thought of this, and I know you said you play other games and also PS4, but is WoW the only PC game you play extended time on?
I used to get rather bad neck aches if I played too long on the PC and turned out to be my chair/posture.
The light-headedness and feeling like crap says it is probably more the eyes though, if I had to guess.
This is so weird because I was literally thinking about asking this yesterday but thought people would think I’m crazy. I wear glasses too. No headaches on retail WoW or FXIV but I get horrible headaches playing classic WoW. I have no idea why?
Change your monitor? Could be a sync issue or poor smoothing.
(Also, you probably could’ve just upgraded your GPU and saved a mint.)
It really is classic WoW. I noticed having graphics on 10 kills me. I have to keep them on like 3 or 5
@Drinknblink
I’ll give that a try.
@Dot
I don’t think it does, it’s an old monitor. Old by today’s standards at least. It’s a ASUS VG278HV
@Pollz
No this isn’t the first time experiencing higher framerates. As it stands at the moment I can’t get over 60fps in the first place since when I upgraded my PC, I failed to even consider that the RTX 2070 Super wasn’t going to support my old ASUS VG278HV DVI port, so at the moment I am using an HDMI cable from one of my consoles to connect my monitor to my PC, which is capping me at 60hz.
@Marrowwalk
I’ll give that a try and see how it works.
@Superfluke
No, WoW is not my main PC game. I am a PC gamer by nature, and really only jump onto console when I want to play something that’s a console exclusive, like Nioh 2 or Ghost of Tsushima. But I will say that I do have terrible posture. Have all my life. Before I resubbed to WoW I was playing the heck out of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on PC and didn’t have any issues.
@Skuggaman
Do you jump back and forth a lot between games like say WoW and Apex Legends/Fortnite/Valorant/etc.? The older we get the less our eyes are capable of handing jumping between different games of varying eye-demand, for lack of a better term. Like your typical game session of WoW doesn’t have you looking around the screen nearly as often as you would in say like CoD Warzone or Counter-Strike, etc… And each game uses different tick rates for their servers so I always find jumping from genre to genre typically causes eye strain.
@Threuly
I know I need to upgrade to a new monitor, but I don’t have the money at the moment. And I did a full upgrade because my old mobo was starting to go, as well as the SSD and power supply. The fact that everything was like 5-7 years old, I figured I’d just upgrade everything and not have to worry about it for a while.
I used to get this, along with nausea. It was the refresh rate of my screen. Changing that solved the issue completely.
Is your monitor higher or lower than what you used to use? If you have progressive lenses, you may now be viewing the screen through a different part of your glasses lenses.
This doesn’t address your issue, but you shouldn’t be capped at 60hz on HDMI 2.0. Your older monitor might have limitations tho.
I was getting nausea too. I just assumed that was due to heartburn as I do have heartburn issues.
@Dhalgren
Before I got my new PC my monitor used to run at 144hz. Since I have to use an HDMI cable atm since I don’t have any DVI-D Dual Links or anything, I’m stuck at 60hz.
@Superfragger
I don’t think it’s an HDMI 2.0 cable. It’s the basic one that came with the base Playstation 4 way back when.
If you upgraded your monitor, it may be due to that. A different refresh rate, or different gamma values, etc can induce headaches/eyestrain.
Like I’ve said in previous replies, I haven’t upgraded my monitor to go with the new PC. I assumed my monitor would work with the new graphics card, but the 2070 super doesn’t have the port my monitor works off of so I’m forced to use an HDMI that caps me at 60hz.