Champions Online

[roguebanshee]

The eye strain is actually from all the texture "popping" with settings turned down. Whole chunks of background will just pop in, characters, especially if they use the "armor" type clothing will come in as base sims then everything else pops onto them. That is where a lot of the issues are coming from. It's not that things look bad or that it's unplayable, it's that with how I process visual information, it just tires my eyes out quickly.

Sounds like you want to play with World, Terrain and Character detail levels then. They modify how far out you see the high detail version.

Also, under the Troubleshooting section (you have to first click on the heading, then scroll down), disable both Framerate stabilizer and Auto-enable framerate stabilizer. If they're on, you can expect a noticable amount of fps loss and they'll degrade the visual quality if your fps fluctuates.