Hey everybody, we’re simply at some point away from bringing the most recent epic chapter within the Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise to PC, the place you’ll battle as Spider-Males, Peter Parker and Miles Morales, towards a rogue’s gallery of iconic Marvel Tremendous Villains, together with the monstrous Venom and the ruthless Kraven the Hunter.
With the sport launching quickly, I’m excited to share extra concerning the superior new PC-enhanced options the crew at Nixxes has been engaged on.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, created by Insomniac in collaboration with Marvel, is a technological and graphical showcase using instruments like ray-tracing to deliver town of Marvel’s New York to life. On PC, you’ll encounter quite a lot of new ray-tracing choices with particular person high quality settings to finetune efficiency and constancy throughout a broad vary of {hardware} configurations.
Ray-traced reflections rapidly catch your eye within the skyscraper-filled metropolis of Marvel’s New York as you swing alongside its many glass surfaces. In the meantime, we’re providing ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion choices that add a further layer of believability with real looking shadows and elevated depth to the sport.
You probably have a high-performance PC with Tremendous Hero-tier {hardware}, you possibly can make the most of our elevated raytracing geometry element setting. This permits the usage of greater high quality meshes for raytracing, leading to extra detailed and real looking reflections. You can too use the raytracing object vary slider to extend the vary at which objects are thought of for raytracing. Moreover, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC contains NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction1, which improves raytracing high quality on supported {hardware}. Let me introduce you to Menno Bil, Graphics Programmer at Nixxes, to inform you extra about this function:
“NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction goals to attain extra detailed raytracing options by combining two separate temporal processes in a body: denoising of the raytracing options and upscaling of the whole body. By combining these steps, ray reconstruction retains extra helpful data over a number of frames so as to add small particulars in raytracing results that may in any other case be misplaced.
In Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC with ray reconstruction enabled, we see extra detailed ray-traced reflections and better-defined ray-traced shadows, particularly when viewing raytracing results at steep angles. We additionally see enhancements within the ray-traced interiors and fewer ghosting and noise within the ray-traced ambient occlusion.
We’ve included two fashions of NVIDIA’s Ray Reconstruction, the unique mannequin launched in DLSS 3.5, and a newly improved mannequin designed for RTX 40 sequence GPUs and newer. This new mannequin leads to an general extra temporally steady picture, additional bettering the visible high quality of raytracing.”
– Menno Bil, Graphics Programmer, Nixxes
Gamers with ultra-wide displays can get pleasure from full assist for ultra-wide facet ratios corresponding to 21:9, 32:9 and even 48:9 when utilizing triple monitor setups. Our crew of engineers and artists labored laborious on guaranteeing all cinematics in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 are tailored to be totally viewable in facet ratios as much as 32:9.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC additionally helps numerous performance-enhancing applied sciences, together with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling and body era.* Intel XeSS upscaling can also be supported.1
With choices like raytracing and ultra-wide assist, we wish to give gamers the possibility to make full use of their high-end PC gaming rigs. Nevertheless, at Nixxes we additionally take satisfaction in making PC video games scale right down to prior era {hardware}. To cater to this, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC provides a variety of graphics settings and presets, together with choices with out ray-tracing, like dynamic decision scaling. Try an summary of the really useful specs for quite a lot of graphics presets under.
| Minimal | Advisable | Excessive | Excessive Ray Tracing | Very Excessive Ray Tracing | Final Ray Tracing | |
| Avg. Efficiency | 720P @ 30 FPS | 1080P @ 60 FPS | 1440P @ 60 FPS | 1440p @ 60 FPS | 1440p @ 60 FPS | 4K @ 60 FPS |
| Graphics Presets | Very Low | Medium | Excessive | Excessive Ray Tracing Excessive |
Excessive Ray Tracing Very Excessive |
Very Excessive Ray Tracing Final |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 5700 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon RX 6800 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
| CPU | Intel Core i3-8100 AMD Ryzen 3 3100 |
Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
Intel Core i5-11400 AMD Ryzen 5 5600 |
Intel Core i5-11600K AMD Ryzen 5 5600X |
Intel Core i7-12700K AMD Ryzen 9 5900X |
Intel Core i9-12900K AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
| RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| OS | Home windows 10/11 64-bit (model 1909 or greater) |
Home windows 10/11 64-bit (model 1909 or greater) |
Home windows 10/11 64-bit (model 1909 or greater) |
Home windows 10/11 64-bit (model 1909 or greater) |
Home windows 10/11 64-bit (model 1909 or greater) |
Home windows 10/11 64-bit (model 1909 or greater) |
| SSD Storage | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB |
Two editions of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 might be obtainable when it launches on PC on January 30, together with the Normal Version and Digital Deluxe Version (DDE). Gamers may also have the choice to improve to the DDE content material in the event that they already personal the Normal Version.
Upon buy, the beforehand introduced Pre-Buy supply might be made obtainable to all gamers as PC Buy Perks. This contains:
- Arachknight Swimsuit early unlock for Peter with three colour variants
- Shadow-Spider Swimsuit early unlock for Miles with three colour variants
- Net Grabber gadget early unlock
- +3 Talent Factors
Gamers will obtain two early unlock fits: the Spider-Man 2099 Black Swimsuit and the Miles Morales 2099 Swimsuit, plus further advantages like trophies and buddy administration in the event that they choose to hook up with a PlayStation Community account. A PlayStation Community account is non-compulsory to play Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC.
Our buddies at Insomniac are additionally excited to collaborate with NetEase Video games and Marvel Video games to deliver Peter Parker’s Superior Swimsuit 2.0 from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to Marvel Rivals. To have a good time Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s upcoming PC launch, Marvel Rivals gamers should buy this go well with in-game beginning 6PM PST on January 29. Try the Superior Swimsuit 2.0 in motion.
Nixxes and Insomniac, together with our companions at PlayStation and collaborators at Marvel Video games, are excited for everybody to expertise Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC!
*Appropriate PC and graphics card required.
