Spider-Man (2002)

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Spider-Man (2002)

Developers
	Treyarch
Windows	LTI Gray Matter
Publishers
	Activision
Release dates
Windows	April 14, 2002

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Demos

• Demo

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\movies Delete or rename ACTIVISN.bik, GrayMatr.bik, Origin1.bik and Treyarch.bik.

Patches

Patch 1.3 is the last patch and resolves a number of issues.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\game.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SavedGames0

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, requires D3D8to9, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Resolutions higher than 640x480 freeze the game in Windows 8/10

Disable desktop notifications[citation needed]

If the game is set to a resolution higher than 640x480, Windows sends a resolution notification which makes the game freeze and go to black screen whenever you start/load a game or navigate through the menus to watch movies/cutscenes. To disable the notificatons: Go to System > Notifications & Actions in the Settings window. To disable notifications for every app on your system, turn the “Get notifications from apps and other senders” toggle off. This option will disable the notifications for both Windows 10 Store apps and classic desktop apps. You will now be able to play the game and navigate through the menus/watch movies at resolutions higher than 640x480 without experiencing freezes or black screens.

Game doesn't recognize all inputs from XInput controller

Use AntiMicro to map unrecognized inputs to keyboard and mouse

Replace the [KEYBOARD], [JOYSTICK], and [MOUSE] sections of <path-to-game>\game.ini with the below: [KEYBOARD] JUMP=49 PUNCH=96 KICK=98 WEB=100 CROUCH=3 START=46 WEB_SWING=97 WEB_ZIP=99 WEB_MODIFIER=37 CAMERA_LOCK=94 TARGET_CAMERA=101 UP=23 DOWN=19 LEFT=1 RIGHT=4 R_UP=86 R_DOWN=85 R_LEFT=84 R_RIGHT=83 [JOYSTICK] JUMP=1 PUNCH=3 KICK=2 WEB_ATTACK=4 CROUCH=9 START=8 WEB_SWING=-1 WEB_ZIP=6 WEB_MODIFIER=7 CAMERA_LOCK=5 TARGET_CAMERA=10 [MOUSE] JUMP=-1 PUNCH=-1 KICK=-1 WEB_ATTACK=-1 CROUCH=-1 START=-1 WEB_SWING=-1 WEB_ZIP=-1 WEB_MODIFIER=-1 CAMERA_LOCK=-1 TARGET_CAMERA=-1 Set up AntiMicro with this profile. If you like, you can also set AntiMicro to use this profile when the game is run, as well as set AntiMicro to run on PC startup, both from AntiMicro's settings, if you want to automate the process for playing the game. Notes This should be a rough mapping of a standard XInput controller to the PS2 controls based on the locations of the inputs on the Xbox 360 controller and the PS2 controller (A->X, LT->L2, etc). The PS2 control scheme can be found here. Because of differences in the PC version of the game, there are still a few significant differences in controls from console versions. On PC the gamepad recenter camera control is always tied to the web action control (LT in this control scheme) like the "classic" control scheme on consoles. On PC, the yo-yo spidey move is LT+RB which maps to the "enhanced" control scheme from the console versions. The dodging moves do not work.

Cutscenes are distorted

Use dgVoodoo2 and DxWnd

Set up dgVoodoo2. Download dgVoodoo 2. Copy the DLL files from the MS/x86 folder to <path-to-game>, where SpiderMan.exe is located. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe. You may want to make a separate profile for the game (hit the Add button at the top of the window, and select the <path-to-game> folder, which you copied the DLL files into). Under the General tab, set the Appearance to Fullscreen and Scaling mode to Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio. Under the DirectX tab, set the Resolution to the resolution you intend to run the game with, and uncheck the "dgVoodoo Watermark" option. You can also set the Filtering option here if you want to force anisotropic filtering. Click the OK button. Set up DxWnd. Download DxWnd. Run dxwnd.exe and go to Edit->Add, then in the Main tab, type in a Name, and for Path browse to and select <path-to-game>\SpiderMan.exe. In the same Main tab, make sure under Generic, Fullscreen only is checked, and under Position, Desktop center is selected. In the Video tab, set Window style to default, Window size & position to Anchored, and Screen resolution to Native. Click the OK button. Now as long as DxWnd is running when you launch the game, the cutscenes should be visible and stretched to your screen, though they will still be stretched out if you have the game set to run in any aspect ratio besides 4:3. If you are using a 16:9 aspect ratio, you can download modified cutscene files that are stretched properly for 16:9 aspect ratios to watch the cutscenes in-game without any distortion. Go to <path-to-game> and make a backup of the movies folder. Download these modified .BIK files and place them in the movies folder (replacing the old files, which you should have backed up). Notes If you like, you can automate launching DxWnd on your PC's startup by placing a shortcut to dxwnd.exe in your Start Menu's Startup folder, and changing the shortcut's properties. In the Properties window of the shortcut, in the Shortcut tab, change Target by adding /T to the end of the text in the field. The resulting field should look something like "<path-to-DxWnd>\dxwnd.exe" /T. The /T parameter launches DxWnd in the system tray.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98		ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 450 MHz AMD Athlon		Intel Pentium III 550 MHz AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM)	64 MB		128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	750 MB		1.25 GB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible