PhlegmMaster
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Hello,
I'm not sure where to post this but I figured this was as good a place as any.
I've played many 3D games on my HDTV (a Panasonic 32" LCD), but I've never experienced eyestrain until a few days ago when I started playing World of Warcraft. After barely an hour I noticed my eyes were getting tired. After 3 or 4 hours my eyes hurt so badly that I had to stop playing. So I haven't played Wow since last Monday, but the symptoms didn't go away. And today I had to take a day off work to allow my eyes to rest!
What really puzzles me is that there is only one game that tires my eyes like that. Does anyone have any guesses as to what WoW might be doing that other games don't that might be causing this? Perhaps something to do with the refresh rate? I doubt it's anything I'm doing. Once I noticed my eyes were getting tired, I pushed the screen ever further away from me than it usually is, I started looking away from the screen for 20 seconds every 20 minutes, and I made sure the game's refresh rate was at 60hz, but none of that helped at all.
Any guesses or suggestions will be appreciated.
I'm not sure where to post this but I figured this was as good a place as any.
I've played many 3D games on my HDTV (a Panasonic 32" LCD), but I've never experienced eyestrain until a few days ago when I started playing World of Warcraft. After barely an hour I noticed my eyes were getting tired. After 3 or 4 hours my eyes hurt so badly that I had to stop playing. So I haven't played Wow since last Monday, but the symptoms didn't go away. And today I had to take a day off work to allow my eyes to rest!
What really puzzles me is that there is only one game that tires my eyes like that. Does anyone have any guesses as to what WoW might be doing that other games don't that might be causing this? Perhaps something to do with the refresh rate? I doubt it's anything I'm doing. Once I noticed my eyes were getting tired, I pushed the screen ever further away from me than it usually is, I started looking away from the screen for 20 seconds every 20 minutes, and I made sure the game's refresh rate was at 60hz, but none of that helped at all.
Any guesses or suggestions will be appreciated.