CoH2 causing eye strain?
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Basically my eyes hurt after a couple of games. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the collor pallete.. Even though I get it on summer maps as well as winter ones. Anyone else have this problem? I haven't fiddled with the gamma/brightness yet to be honest,but I might give it a shot.
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And my eyes feel like this
Doesnt really happen to me in other games i play either. just coh2
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This is really weird to me. I play all sorts of games (fps/rpg/rts/tbs) and I never had any adverse effects. This started with CoH2 vannila but I get the same thing now when I'm playing the XP, so I'm 100% sure coh is the culprit.
Basically my eyes hurt after a couple of games. I am pretty sure it has something to do with the collor pallete.. Even though I get it on summer maps as well as winter ones. Anyone else have this problem? I haven't fiddled with the gamma/brightness yet to be honest,but I might give it a shot.
same here, its graphic really hurt my eye
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You can always turn down the brightness of your monitor.
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You can always turn down the brightness of your monitor.
Even this isn't necessary, there is a brightness setting in the game's options.
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Its like you dont have time to blink because you will miss some significant aspect of the battle.
Definitely not a game for epileptic people.
All those damn explosions..
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Even this isn't necessary, there is a brightness setting in the game's options.
Whch isnt exactly the same thing.
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It doesnt happen all the time but sometimes I concentrate so much that I do not blink for a few minutes. I use eye drops when my eyes dry out during gaming.
You think that's it and not the coloring? I can't believe I wouldn't blink in CoH2 but would do it in other games (I mostly play competitive games so I'm not more anxious playing CoH2 than anything else).
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Don't have such issues with other games, maybe you are on to something.
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Then I launch CoH2 and my eyes are strained after 3 games.
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It's also due to the camo on units making them indistinct from the background / having to closely watch animations for grenades being thrown / blizzards.
Eye drops help, cucumbers too
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Infantry however, especially, does blend in with its surroundings quite well, so I suppose the eye has to work a little harder to differentiate them than in games where there is a stronger contrast or some kind of distinct outline when unit is selected.
My best guess is it has to do with the rather limited and close in view of the battlefield, which means the eyes have to pan back and forth a lot, especially on larger screens, rather than the player being able to zoom out a bit for a higher, wider, birds-eye perspective (which however, in turn, would make distinguishing the camoed and blended in infantry even more a task).
There was a lot similar complaints, especially from vcoh vets, when coh2 first released, but mostly more specifically on difficultynof distinguishing units on the field, rather than eyestrain. I attributed that mostly to the lower contrsst between units and backgroundmin coh2, as a result of the graphics being, infact better. Funnily enough, I personally had this problem between dota and dota 2. In the first, contrast was very prominent, in the second, grapbics are better, but as a result everything blendsminto the field, rather than standing out.
Cataclaw just ran a 24hr marathon, and seemed to manage fine, so whatever eyestrain there might be resulting from whichever factor, seems to be more strongly user-based in nature, rather than concretely in the game itself.
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