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What to do if Atomic Heart is causing motion sickness or nausea

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When playing Atomic Heart, you may start to feel a little bit woozy. To see how you can prevent motion sickness and nausea while playing this first-person shooter, you can take a look at this guide from Seeking Tech.

  • 1. For the first step, we suggest minimizing the camera shake as the frequent camera movements could be causing your nausea. You can do so by taking the following steps:
  • To start off, you need to head to the Options menu, which you can do from the Main Menu. If you are inside the game at this moment, then you need to pause the game (on consoles, you need to press the Options button on PlayStation or Menu button on Xbox) and then select Options.
  • Inside of the Options menu, you need to switch over to the Gameplay tab. On PlayStation, you can use the L1 and R1 buttons to change tabs in this screen of Atomic Heart. Xbox gamers can use the LB and RB buttons.
  • From the Gameplay tab of the Options menu, move the cursor over to the Camera Shake Strength setting.
  • Finally, change this setting to the lowest possible value, which should be 0.2.

2. While you are in the Gameplay tab of the Option menu, we also suggest turning off the Motion Blur feature as it may also be triggering your motion sickness.

3. Furthermore, you can also try adjusting the Brightness slider in the sale Gameplay tab so that you can get better visibility of the action.

4. An inconsistent frame rate may also lead to nausea. To see how you can get a smoother experience with Atomic Heart, we suggest checking out this fps troubleshooting guide.

5. The development team at Mundfish has stated that they will be adding a field of view slider to Atomic Heart. You should be able to use this slider to decrease or increase how much you see on the screen, which you help alleviate your motion sickness.

So, if you haven’t done so already, make sure that you keep your game updated as the FOV slider is a post-launch update. Once this feature has been added, you should be able to find it in the Options menu.

6. Once you start feeling a little bit nauseous, then we suggest that you stop immediately and then take a break until you feel better before you try to play the game again. If you try to push through, then you will only get sicker.