Extremely painful eye issue only when playing Retail

[Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko)]

I can remember a couple cases like this in the past, but has different possible solutions you may want to try and check it out:

I want to play the game but i can't

Hey there Nadith, I’m sorry to hear about this eye strain issue that you’re having. There are a couple of things that you can try out, both in-game and out of the game in order to reduce that type of eye strain. Check your monitor settings! For example raise the contrast and reduce the brightness a bit, if possible lowering the colour temperature of the monitor can help. Most newer monitors have an eye health mode as well. Avoid playing in a completely dark room and have a low light around y…

Eye strain

Sorry for necro, but I believe i have found the solution for that problem. For years i had the same problem: immediate eye strain and light dizziness from just looking at the game screen, even at login, only from WoW. 30 min later the eyes started going red and it felt like i was playing 10+ hours straight. I thought maybe that was all just because of the 60Hz monitor, but i could play all day long in any vivid fast paced FP Shooters, with no bad effect to my eyes. A couple of weeks ago i bough…

Eye strain, dizziness, headache from WoW still/again v2.0

Not sure there’s anything support can help you with in this case since they don’t handle anything related to development (including feedback), and not entirely sure I understand the exact nature of the problem you described, but there’s a thing in WoW that used to give me severe eyestrain. The problem is the setting itself was removed from the ingame options a long time ago and the only way to turn it off is through the Config.wtf file (which you can modify, it’s allowed as it’s just a text file…