Why my eyes are tired after looking at 0AD screen (playing, observing, lobby reading, etc.)

[BeTe]

I feel very tired, unlike with other things on my PC. Why could it be? 

Are my settings correct? What I can do to fix it?

[Tapothei]

When I ever do play any Playstation games my head also become hurt possibly from low frame rate, around 30fps, can also be motion sickness, or that your monitor has too much contrast/brightness the colour is tiring you, eye strain or could be anything really.

Actually your fps is throttled both in menu and games, so increase it to 60, if you want precise use the scroll too. I think thats what causing you tired.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Oftentimes, watching 0 A.D. replays on YouTube knocks me out. Don't know why. 

[Tapothei]

13 minutes ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Oftentimes, watching 0 A.D. replays on YouTube knocks me out. Don't know why. 

Its a sign its boring to watch. Basically equivalent to hearing history lectures if your not into it. Well it happens to me to various gameplay videos a lot especially if it goes beyond 1 hour.

[BeTe]

10 hours ago, Tapothei said:

When I ever do play any Playstation games my head also become hurt possibly from low frame rate, around 30fps, can also be motion sickness, or that your monitor has too much contrast/brightness the colour is tiring you, eye strain or could be anything really.

Actually your fps is throttled both in menu and games, so increase it to 60, if you want precise use the scroll too. I think thats what causing you tired.

If it's my monitor, it'd not be case ONLY with 0AD. 

Re FPS limit, I have same limit in OpenRA (another RTS) to 55 fps and I don't have any issues. Now I check FPS and it actuallyu drops way below 55, to like 15-20... Now i lowered all Graphics settings to lowest so now 0AD looks like ugly Minecraft  Will see how it works for my eyes.

[Deicide4u]

1 hour ago, BeTe said:

Now i lowered all Graphics settings to lowest so now 0AD looks like ugly Minecraft

I prefer looking at original AoE2 and AoM era graphics, as those just work for a RTS. Too much detail, and you get washed out or saturated assets that are hard to look at. Sometimes, it takes too long to recognize which structure you're looking at, which only amplifies the eye strain.

Just take a look at old AoM videos. The art style was amazing for its time.

Edited 18 hours ago by Deicide4u
details - > detail

[BeTe]

41 minutes ago, Deicide4u said:

I prefer looking at original AoE2 and AoM era graphics, as those just work for a RTS. Too much detail, and you get washed out or saturated assets that are hard to look at. Sometimes, it takes too long to recognize which structure you're looking at, which only amplifies the eye strain.

Just take a look at old AoM videos. The art style was amazing for its time.

Abolutely agree. Starcraft 1 graphics are perfection I'd say. AOE2 also cool.

I tried to reduce all graphics to lowest, but it very bad, like Playstation 1 graphics and also it seems it's not better for eyes. I don't enjoy playing 0AD like that.  

Is there any mod to "change" models/graphics but without affecting gameplay and ability to play Multiplayer?

Edited 17 hours ago by BeTe

[Deicide4u]

37 minutes ago, BeTe said:

Is there any mod to "change" models/graphics but without affecting gameplay and ability to play Multiplayer?

As far as I know, there isn't.

I keep my settings at Medium (with shadows at Low) and there isn't any lag with R28, except in extreme late game with hundreds of units on the screen. 

Edited 16 hours ago by Deicide4u

[Tapothei]

17 hours ago, BeTe said:

If it's my monitor, it'd not be case ONLY with 0AD. 

Re FPS limit, I have same limit in OpenRA (another RTS) to 55 fps and I don't have any issues. Now I check FPS and it actuallyu drops way below 55, to like 15-20... Now i lowered all Graphics settings to lowest so now 0AD looks like ugly Minecraft  Will see how it works for my eyes.

Nononono, there is a setting there that you throttled the fps. Lowering the graphic setting doesn't do anything unless you change it, check the setting again and find the word 'FPS throttling in games' and bump it to 60 fps. Hopefully I didn't misunderstood something.

[BeTe]

1 hour ago, Tapothei said:

Nononono, there is a setting there that you throttled the fps. Lowering the graphic setting doesn't do anything unless you change it, check the setting again and find the word 'FPS throttling in games' and bump it to 60 fps. Hopefully I didn't misunderstood something.

1) I can set to 100, but my PC is weak so it can go up to like 50 or so. And once armies grows, then it drops to 20 regardless of limit in Settings.

2) Also 50-60 limit should be OK - I have that configured in an another RTS and it's fine for my eyes.