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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Shifty on May 25, 2009, 09:40:37 AM
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I've noticed the past couple of years my flying is only good for about and hour. It's getting worse.
After about an hour I can't see or hit squat. It's like my eyes get tired and just refuse to focus.
If I stay on any longer the best that I can hope for is to annoy the enemy or nick him and slow him down so some youngster can come blow him away. When I started this mess in 1994 with Air Warrior I had a small 15" monitor and we played with crummy graphics. Now I'm on a 22" monitor with nice graphics and I need reading glasses just to see my cockpit instruments, much less the enemy.
Any of you older guys got any tips for eye fatigue? It's looking like somebody needs to invent Viagra for video games. :D
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Sleep
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I use glasses but see quite well up close. What you can do is get a bigger monitor and then move back some so your eyes can adjust. Another thing is take many breaks. Look away often and get up to do some things.
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My biggest problem is a sore neck and shoulders from tilting my head back to look through the lower part of my bifocals to see the monitor. Time to get glasses just for playing AH2.
rkanjl
(Archangel)
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go to options make sure your gamma is turned down to lowest setting you can see with.
Well it helps me alot and im only 36.
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I have glasses for computer use only. For detail work (like aiming the tank gun at long range) I take off my glasses and get close (I'm as near sighted as Mr. McGoo... and that reference tells you I'm older than dirt). If you're getting headaches or fuzzy eyesight, it could mean your prescrition isn't good for the distance between your eyes and the screen. As you get older your accommodation, the ability to change focal distance, essentially goes away. So you need glasses for each specific distance. I have reading glasses, computer glasses, bifocals, and full distance dark glasses.
I would suggest you measure the distance between your eyes and the screen and then visit your ophthalmologist for a checkup and a new prescription.
I have noticed that age is not good for air combat. When I started 22 years ago on Air Warrior version 1.0, I was actually good- hit number one once. Now, with the reaction time of a three toed sloth on sleeping pills, I am considerably worse than average.
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I have noticed that age is not good for air combat. When I started 22 years ago on Air Warrior version 1.0, I was actually good- hit number one once. Now, with the reaction time of a three toed sloth on sleeping pills, I am considerably worse than average.
I'm with ya pal. :aok
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When I started this mess in 1994 with Air Warrior I had a small 15" monitor and we played with crummy graphics. Now I'm on a 22" monitor with nice graphics and I need reading glasses just to see my cockpit instruments, much less the enemy.
I am 51, so I went out and got a 25" monitor. Still can't see anything...... but now I get air sick too.
Cavalry
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drink more prune juice....buncha old farts... :t
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I am 51, so I went out and got a 25" monitor. Still can't see anything...... but now I get air sick too.
Cavalry
:lol
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I find that after a while I forget why I'm sitting in front of the computer.
shamus
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Man am I glad that I am not the only one, I too started back in the AW days and was a "fair" stick now I just suck no way around it and I get killed lot cause I can't see as well as I used to (not to mention my acm has gone to the devil).
The doc told me "dry eyes" can happen after long staring at puter screen and recommended eye drops when things start to get fuzzy and it does work but nothing but glasses can fix old age LOL
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Nothing "fixes" old age. Im having trouble reading, especially in lower light. That and Im not seeing the shooting targets like I used to.
OK so I go to the eye Doc, endure his frowning after he hears I actually shoot guns "I guess in his world street cops shouldnt", and tell him I need something to fix my eyes. He tests me 20/20 like Ive always been and when I ask him, "what in heck is happening then"? He says, "your just getting old". :frown:
So forgettaboutit. Were on the downslope and nothing is going to change that.
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If you're lucky, you get to be old.
regards, T. E. Shaw
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1 or 2 really good fights burns me out. Decision making process slows, reflex's slow, concentration lags.
Some nights a half hour in a wirble is a nice way to cap off the experience with. Lets me with a bit of luck get a few more kills and its easier on this ol fart. Normally I don't have to think as much, work as hard to get a wirble kill. There is time to wind down, relax and take a few pot shots at anyone silly enough to get close.
Might give it a try. Otherwise its pretty much going to be fly for an hour, and walk away for a couple.
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If you're lucky, you get to be old.
regards, T. E. Shaw
Very true and some people still don't realize how lucky they are.
Thank you for the tips gentlemen.
<S>
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I must agree, age is not kind to playing this sim. I attribute my poor showing to lack of reflexes and having a hard time with the views. It seems like the cockpit framework has gotten much larger over time. As a side note, I'll vouch for 715. He was hot in AW way back when...
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I've noticed the past couple of years my flying is only good for about and hour. It's getting worse.
After about an hour I can't see or hit squat. It's like my eyes get tired and just refuse to focus.
If I stay on any longer the best that I can hope for is to annoy the enemy or nick him and slow him down so some youngster can come blow him away. When I started this mess in 1994 with Air Warrior I had a small 15" monitor and we played with crummy graphics. Now I'm on a 22" monitor with nice graphics and I need reading glasses just to see my cockpit instruments, much less the enemy.
Any of you older guys got any tips for eye fatigue? It's looking like somebody needs to invent Viagra for video games. :D
I turned 50 this year, and my eyes had actually improved some when I went in for my check-up last month. The doc says sometimes they do that at around 50, just like at around 40 most guys start to need reading glasses.
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I turned 50 this year, and my eyes had actually improved some when I went in for my check-up last month. The doc says sometimes they do that at around 50, just like at around 40 most guys start to need reading glasses.
Hmm just how around 50 do you have to be??? ;)
Glad to hear that's happened for you. I never needed glasses of any kind until I started needing readers at 44.
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1 or 2 really good fights burns me out. Decision making process slows, reflex's slow, concentration lags.
Some nights a half hour in a wirble is a nice way to cap off the experience with. Lets me with a bit of luck get a few more kills and its easier on this ol fart. Normally I don't have to think as much, work as hard to get a wirble kill. There is time to wind down, relax and take a few pot shots at anyone silly enough to get close.
Might give it a try. Otherwise its pretty much going to be fly for an hour, and walk away for a couple.
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We're talking 'old' here, not ancient and senile. :rofl
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The solution is easy..... get a 50" monitor :O