Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
Developers | |
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Insomniac Games | |
Windows | Nixxes Software |
Publishers | |
PlayStation PC | |
Engines | |
Insomniac Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 12, 2022 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 87 |
OpenCritic | 87 |
IGDB | 77 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Open world |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | North America, Supernatural |
Series | Spider-Man |
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered is a remastered version of the PlayStation 4 game from 2018. The game and subsequent remaster for PlayStation 5 were developed by Insomniac Games, while the PC version is being developed by Nixxes Software and published by PlayStation PC. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered is the first traditional Spider-Man game to release on PC since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014. The PC version improves in a variety of aspects compared to the PS5 release, including improved shadows, improved ray traced reflections (full resolution instead of half resolution, and more objects can be included in the ray traced reflections), FSR 2.0, DLSS, DLAA, ultrawide screen support, improved texture filtering and an unlocked frame rate.[1]
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered released on August 12, 2022, almost two years after it was originally released for the PlayStation 5 in 2020.
The PC version was well received by reviewers with it being praised as a good-quality port, with some criticism going to performance sometimes not being optimal on certain hardware configurations. The game was found to be quite CPU-heavy in some scenarios, especially during traversal and when ray-traced reflections are turned on.[2] Four days before release, Nixxes Software implemented significant performance improvements, ray tracing fixes and expanded graphical options for ray tracing, traffic density and crowd density to address most issues reviewers noted, indicating that some reviews might not fully reflect the state of the game on release date.[3][4][5][6]
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Pre-purchase Entitlements | Pre-order only. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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No microtransactions | No microtransactions are present in the game. |
Essential improvements
Skip launcher
Use -nolauncher command line argument[7]
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %APPDATA%\Insomniac Games\Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered\crs %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered\<user-id>\-userprefs.save HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Insomniac Games\Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1817070/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered\<user-id> |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1817070/pfx/[Note 1] |
- PS4 savegames can be imported
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video
- While at the graphics settings menu, the game itself can still be seen paused in the background. Making the user able to directly see the effects of changed graphical settings. Loading different quality of textures can take a few seconds after changing texture quality.
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | See Ultra-widescreen.[1] | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Hor+ gameplay and rendered cutscenes. HUD can be bounded to 16:9, 21:9 and 32:9 aspect ratios or scale freely. Cutscenes may be partially blurred at 32:9 and wider, see Issues unresolved. |
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4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Adjustment slider with values between -25° and +25°. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Exclusive fullscreen also available. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16x available. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Off, SMAA, TAA, IGTI (Insomniac Games' Temporal Injection), FSR 2.0, DLSS 2.4.12 and DLAA. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Half Refresh Rate option also available. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | Peak nit adjustment also available. | ||
Ray tracing (RT) | Reflections. Reflection Resolution, Geometry Detail and Object Range settings also available. |
Ambient occlusion
- It was reported that, at launch, SSAO seemed to deliver a more pleasing and plausible result compared to the HBAO+ option. Might be that the HBAO+ implementation is broken at launch.[8] Most likely fixed by update v1.817.1.0[9]
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | As a slider from 0-100. Can be set for both axes independently. |
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Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | X-axis can also be inverted. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Remapping is being done via Steam Controller Configurator. | |
Controller sensitivity | As a slider from 0-10. | |
Controller Y-axis inversion | X-axis can also be inverted. |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Also supports DualSense with adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, but only works when wired to PC by USB.[1] | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired, Wireless (Bluetooth), V2 tested. No vibration and internal speaker support with Bluetooth. |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Steam Input | ||
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Steam Input API support | ||
Official controller preset(s) | Steam Deck, DualShock 4, DualSense and Xbox One. | |
Steam Controller button prompts | Uses Steam Deck button prompts.[10] Assigning certain buttons (like Touchpad Click) may give you a Question Mark button prompt. |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, Speech, UI, SFX sliders. Separate Gamepad Speaker slider also available. |
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Surround sound | Up to 7.1. Cutscenes are in 3.0 stereo.[11] Mono sound option also available. |
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Subtitles | Size and color options available. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | English voiceover can be set independently. | |||
Arabic | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
Finnish | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Greek | ||||
Hungarian | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Norwegian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Issues Resolved
Freezes and stutters during traversal
- An SSD is strongly recommended for any graphics preset above Very Low at 720p at 30 FPS to prevent streaming-related stutter and freezes.[12]
Install the game on an SSD[12] |
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Issues unresolved
SMT and HT causing inconsistent CPU usage
- Happens when SMT (Ryzen) or HT (Intel) is enabled [13]
- Game seemingly can't efficiently use the logical cores available through hardware multithreading when CPU has more than 6 cores, disabling it increases CPU usage on all cores helping in CPU-intensive scenarios increasing average fps[14]
- Nixxes will probably fix this incorrect cores usage in a future patch
- Disabling SMT/HT can severely impact the performance of games and applications. Strongly advised to turn it back on after quitting the game.
Disable CPU multithreading[15] |
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Cutscenes are partially blurred at aspect ratios wider than 21:9
- Happens when upscaling is enabled.
Workaround[16] |
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Use SUWSF[17] |
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Windows 10 version 1909 (Build 18363) or higher error
- Patch v1.817.1.0 improved the Windows version check to prevent false positives of this error message.[18]
Update your Windows installation to Windows 10 version 1909 (Build 18363) or higher[19] |
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Turn off compatibility mode on Steam.exe[20] |
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Video Memory Crash
- The game can crash with the following error: The game has crashed due to using more video memory than currently available on this PC. Please try lowering your graphics settings, lowering your resolution, and closing any unnecessary background applications before running the game again.[22]
High-end PC's: let Windows manage the page file size[22] |
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Low-end PC's and laptops: lower your graphical settings[22] |
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Getting stuck on the Spiderhack story mission
- This is an issue that appears to be related to framerates, with Insomniac officially saying they're looking into this issue, but have a workaround available.[23]
Limit framerate of the game to 60Hz or lower in the game[23] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 12 | |
Shader Model support | 5.1 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Havok | |
Audio | Wwise, XAudio | XAudio v2.7 |
Interface | Scaleform | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video, Annosoft Speech Engine | Bink v2.7p, Annosoft Speech Engine v4.0.25.0 (used for automated lipsync) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-4160 | Intel Core i5-4670 AMD Ryzen5 1600 |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 75 GB (HDD) | 75 GB (SSD) |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon RX 470 DirectX 12 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) AMD Radeon RX 580 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- The recommended requirements are for 1080p 60 FPS with the Medium preset. Additional requirements for higher presets, 4K, ray tracing, and more are listed here.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1817070/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1817070) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered - PC Features Trailer - last accessed on 2022-07-20
- ↑ Spiderman Remastered PC Review - last accessed on 2022-08-11
- ↑ Nixxes Software Twitter updated graphics menu - last accessed on 2022-08-11
- ↑ Alex Battaglia Twitter Graphical Settings (Digital Foundry) - last accessed on 2022-08-11
- ↑ Alex Battaglia Twitter RT (Digital Foundry) - last accessed on 2022-08-11
- ↑ Marvel's Spider-Man PC: why we aren't posting our review today - last accessed on 2022-08-11
- ↑ Marvel's Spider Man Remastered PC - DF Tech Review - last accessed on 2022-08-12
- ↑ DF Analysis ambient occlusion - last accessed on 2022-08-12
- ↑ Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered v1.817.1.0 Patch Notes - last accessed on 2022-08-18
- ↑ Moskeeto: Marvel's Spider-Man: Steam Input Review (It's really good!) - last accessed on 2022-08-16
- ↑ Verified by User:SojerManLan on 2022-07-30
- Tested using Razer Surround 7.1 virtualisation and confirmed using Special K.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 [1] - last accessed on 2022-08-18
- ↑ Fix for Spider-Man Remastered low CPU usage / framerate drops - last accessed on 2022-08-15
- ↑ Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered PC Performance Analysis - last accessed on 2022-08-14
- ↑ Verified by User:fra98_ on 2022-08-17
- ↑ DLSS causes blur at the cutscene edges in Spider-Man Remastered - last accessed on 2022-08-12
- ↑ Verified by User:SojerManLan on 2022-08-13
- ↑ Version 1.817.1.0 Release Notes - last accessed on 2022-08-18
- ↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2022-08-13
- Seems logical
- ↑ Windows 10 version 1909 (Build 18363) or higher error - last accessed on 2022-08-13
- ↑ Windows Version Error? Try this - last accessed on 2022-08-13
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Video Memory Crash - last accessed on 2022-08-13
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 I am stuck on the Spiderhack Story Mission. - last accessed on 2022-08-15