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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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Revision as of 15:02, 15 March 2021 by My pizzaz (talk | contribs) (I fixed the part about the Launcher VRAM part, because turns out, i got it wrong, even if you lower the settings, you still can't start the game. Sorry about that.)
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man cover
Developers
Beenox
Publishers
Activision
Engines
Goliath Engine
Release dates
Windows August 10, 2012
Reception
IGDB 65
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) on HowLongToBeat
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) on IGDB
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) on MobyGames
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) on Wikipedia
Subseries of Marvel
Spider-Man (1986) 1986
The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge! 1989
The Amazing Spider-Man 1990
Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety 1995
Spider-Man: The Sinister Six 1996
Spider-Man (2001) 2001
Spider-Man (2002) 2002
Spider-Man 2: The Game 2004
Spider-Man 2: Activity Center 2004
Ultimate Spider-Man 2005
Spider-Man 3 2007
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe 2007
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows 2008
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions 2010
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2014
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Virtual Reality Experience 2017
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Virtual Reality Experience 2019
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered 2022
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales 2022

Key points

Poor optimization for AMD-based systems. See ATI/AMD FIX.
GPU's with more than 2GB VRAM, can't launch the game, since the launcher only detects up to 2GB of VRAM. See Launch game button greyed out in the game Launcher for a solution.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

This game is no longer available digitally.
All versions require Steam DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Rhino Challenge
Windows
Oscorp Search and Destroy Pack
Windows
Stan Lee Adventure Pack
Windows
Lizard Rampage Pack
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Video\LogosIntros
  2. Delete/Rename ActivisionIntro.usm, BeenoxIntro.usm, ColumbiaIntro.usm, Intro.usm and MarvelIntro.usm

Skip launcher

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Delete or rename ASMLauncher.exe.
  3. Rename Game.exe to ASMLauncher.exe.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Activision\ASM
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/212580/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\212580\remote
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/212580/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Game launcher interface
Game launcher interface

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Issues fixed

Game crashes on launch on Windows 10

Set Compatibility Mode on Game.exe to "Windows 7"

Launch game button greyed out in the game Launcher

If your GPU has more than 2GB of Video memory, and the bar in the launcher is red, the 'Launch Game' option will be greyed out.
Delete VideoDetection.dll
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Delete VideoDetection.dll or move it to another location.

ATI/AMD FIX

Download this tool to improve framerate on AMD/ATI cards[citation needed]
Originally created for Fallout: New Vegas but should work here.
Causes the game launcher to crash, so it needs to be applied after the launcher is open and removed afterwards. Could be automated with a batch file.
Doesn't work on Windows 10 with newest AMD drivers.

Fix Street Level Audio cutting out and crashes

In the Launcher set "City Life Density" to low[citation needed]

Games keeps defaulting to 800x600 resolution on laptops

Set shadows to "medium"[citation needed]


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7500 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7600GT
AMD Radeon X1800 GTO
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/212580/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (212580) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References