Half life 2 motion sickness

[tehnogiant]

Hi, I know I'm a little late to the party here but I'm playing through HL2 on the pc, its a great game but it's making me motion sick.

I've looked around the web and it has been suggested to use a larger FOV so I've tried that but it hasn't helped.

I think the problem is the way in which the movement operates, if you are going forward or backward or strafing left or right and take your finger off the control the in game movement does not stop imediately and the character continues in the same direction for a short time.

I'm wondering if there is away to stop this, I've been using the developers console so as to be able to use the left stick of a game pad for movement and a mouse for the look and see that there are many settings there and wonder if any of those could help, I've reduced the forward and side sensitivities from 1 to 0.5 but it hasn't helped either....any help would be apprieciated as I've got the whole HL2 series to play through and don't fancy throwing up that often (hasn't actually come to that yet just a terribly nauseus feeling).

 

[tehnogiant]

I've found that running the game at its native resolution in a window helps a bit but would like to run it at full res if I can find a way to stop this.

I saw one cheat code to increase world friction....guess that would stop the character continuing to move after the control is released?
I wasn't able to get it going though, I put in the code "sv_cheats 1" and then "sv-friction 6" to increase the friction but the code was not accepted...any idea how to do this or if it would have the desired affect?