Spider-Man 2 PC port gets a rough reception over performance and graphical issues

The PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launched on Thursday, however the sport has had a “Combined” reception within the Steam person critiques as many gamers complain about efficiency, graphical points and crashes.

Sony leant on their in-house porting workforce at Nixxes to deal with the port of Spider-Man 2, however whereas they historically have a superb fame for his or her PC ports, this one has fallen flat, becoming a member of plenty of different PlayStation PC ports which have had a rocky touchdown.

We’re engaged on our personal impressions of the PC port, however simply to seize one of the many negative Steam reviews, “I’ve an RTX 4070ti, on excessive graphics and no raytracing I get crashes […] Even when it’s not crashing, shadows flicker for no good cause and it feels prefer it struggles to render hair at occasions.”

A part of that is right down to efficiency. Whereas Spider-Man Remastered and Miles Morales have been effectively acquired for his or her efficiency, these video games basically had the PS4 platform as the bottom goal for Insomniac’s unique creation, and have been designed with ray tracing as an additive function. Spider-Man 2 solely launched for PS5 and so might all the time function ray tracing, might all the time depend on the quick NVMe SSD loading occasions, and the basic uplift that the console supplied.

Spider-Man 2’s PC port really scaled again right down to GPUs with out ray-tracing options, with a broad set of {hardware} and efficiency targets to go from 720p30 as much as full 4K with “Final” ray tracing.

The issues that gamers are encountering appear to run the complete gamut, and have an effect on each Nvidia and AMD GPUs alike with efficiency dips, body price stutters and operating out of VRAM even with a 16GB card. Nearly all of PC avid gamers have gone with Nvidia, and with many newly applied graphical choices appear to come back loads of issues.

Odd driver points can result in full-blown crashes citing GPU temperatures. Elsewhere Nvidia’s bespoke ray reconstruction for enhancing ray traced reflections and sure different DLSS options are claimed to truly scale back body charges.

One user has a potential performance aid, saying “Earlier than you play, open the set up folder of the sport,make a brand new folder and drag dsstorage.dll and dsstoragecore.dll into the brand new folder to enhance load occasions, low fps and micro freezes!”

Primarily, this ditches the sport’s use of Direct Storage, which has sure necessities for SSD speeds and know-how. It’s not clear how this is able to assist, as in idea it could scale back SSD learn efficiency, however maybe there are some bugs with the system.

As for the opposite points, turning down ray-tracing results and relying much less on DLSS options that use AI to fill within the blanks appears to have an impact. Generally, it looks like gamers will need to await a patch from Nixxes and a recent driver replace from Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia can be juggling a brand new GPU technology launch and including extra trickery to their drivers proper round now.