Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered

Developers
	Insomniac Games
Windows	Nixxes Software
Publishers
	PlayStation PC
Engines
	Insomniac Engine
Release dates
Windows	August 12, 2022
Reception
Metacritic	87
OpenCritic	87
IGDB	78
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 PlayStation 5 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), FoV slider, HBAO+, FSR 2.1, XeSS, DLSS 2, DLSS Frame Generation, DLAA, ultrawide screen support, improved texture filtering and an unlocked frame rate.

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 intensive in some scenarios, especially during traversal and when ray traced reflections are turned on. 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.

Post-launch patches brought various bug, crash, stability and ray tracing related fixes, improved VRAM management and fixed HBAO+ implementation. Additionally, DLSS Frame Generation and XeSS support were added, while updating the FSR integration to 2.1.1. These patches also introduced sharpness sliders for both upscaling and in-game sharpening filters, contrast slider, HDR paper white slider and NVidia Reflex support for all compatible GPU's.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Official support page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		DRM-free when a shortcut is made directly to the executable, with the -EpicPortal command appended to the Target URL.
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Despite not being listed on the store page as a feature, Achievements are available on the Epic Games Store version, found via the in-game overlay.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Pre-purchase entitlements	Pre-orders came with early access to three Spider-Man suits as well as the Spider-Drone gadget, plus five bonus skill points.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	No microtransactions are present in the game.

Essential improvements

Skip launcher

Use -nolauncher command line argument

Skip intro videos

Replace intro video files with files of one second length[citation needed]

Replaces Insomniac Games and Marvel intro video with a one-second Bink Video file. Download Spider-Man PC Modding Tool, extract the archive to a location of choice. Open SMPCTool.exe. Go to Tools > Convert Asset Archives. Asset archives will now be converted to PAD to ensure the game can read modded files. Download Remove Introduction Start-up Video mod that contain the one second video files and extract the archive to location of choice. In Spider-Man Remastered PC Tool, go to File > Select Asset Archive Folder and select the asset_archive folder in <path-to-game>. Once loaded, press Install Mod. Select the extracted file from the Remove Introduction Start-up Video mod. The mod will now be installed, this might take a while. Once the install of the mod has finished, the intro videos should now be skipped automatically.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
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)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1817070/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered\<user-id>
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1817070/pfx/

PS4 savegames can be imported

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud		Saves and most settings.

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.

Display settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			See Ultra-widescreen.
Ultra-widescreen			Hor+ gameplay and rendered cutscenes. HUD can be bounded to 16:9, 21:9 and 32:9 aspect ratios or scale freely.
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, and DLAA.
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 2.1, DLSS 2.4, XeSS 1.1 Also supports IGTI (Insomniac Games' Temporal Injection) and DLSS Frame Generation.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Half Refresh Rate option also available.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 250 FPS despite Dynamic Resolution Scaling enabling options for higher rates such as 300 FPS at 300 Hz.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Peak nit adjustment and paper white slider also available.
Ray tracing (RT)		Reflections. Reflection Resolution, Geometry Detail and Object Range settings also available.

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  Graphics settings

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  Launcher display settings

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  Launcher graphics settings

Input

Game settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		As a slider from 0-100. Can be set for both axes independently.
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

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		Also supports DualSense and DualSense Edge with adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, but only works when wired to PC via USB. Since the v2.512.000 update, Steam Input no longer needed to be disabled for adaptive triggers to work over both wired and wireless conneciton.
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modes	DualSense, DualSense Edge, Wired, Bluetooth, V2 V2 tested. No vibration and internal speaker support with Bluetooth.

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		KB/M input interrupts movement stick

Steam Input
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. Assigning certain buttons (like Touchpad Click) may give you a Question Mark button prompt.

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  Keybind settings

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  Mouse settings

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  Gamepad settings

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  Official Steam Input preset (Xbox One controller)

Audio

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Speech, UI, SFX sliders. Separate Gamepad Speaker slider also available.
Surround sound		Up to 7.1. Cutscenes are in 3.0 stereo. Mono sound option also available.
Subtitles		Size and color options available.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

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  Subtitle settings

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  Accessibility settings

Language settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
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.

Install the game on an SSD

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.

Update your Windows installation to Windows 10 version 1909 (Build 18363) or higher

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered makes use of the DirectX Agility SDK, which requires Window 10 version 1909 (Build 18363) or newer. Some specific revisions of Windows 10 1909, 2004 and 20H2 don't have this SDK installed. If Windows 10 version 1909 is installed, the revision number should exceed or be equal to .1350. For Windows 10 Version 2004 and 20H2, the revision number should exceed or be equal to .789.

Turn off compatibility mode on Steam.exe

If you get a Windows 10 version 1909 (Build 18363) or higher error message even though they have a newer Windows version, for example Windows 11. Then the issue is likely that Steam.exe is running in compatibility mode. Go to steam installation folder, for example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam Right click on Steam.exe Click on Properties Go to the Compatibility tab and make sure Run this program in compatibility mode is not checked. Click on Change settings for all users Click on Apply Fully close Steam, so it is not even visible on the taskbar anymore Open Steam again Play the game

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.

High-end PC's: let Windows manage the page file size

This error can occur on systems with high-end hardware, when the Windows page file does not offer enough space to allocate VRAM budget. This can happen when a custom page file size is set as it is typically recommend letting Windows automatically manage the virtual memory size. Press the Windows key on your keyboard Search for sysdm.cpl Go to the Advanced tab Press Settings under the Performance section. Press the Advanced tab in the Performance Options window. Under Virtual memory, press Change. Check that the box for Automatically manage paging file size for all drives is enabled.

Low-end PC's and laptops: lower your graphical settings
This crash might occur on lower-end hardware because the available VRAM and system memory is not enough for the selected graphical settings.

Ray tracing is greyed out even though GPU supports it

Some specific Windows version lack the support for Shader Model 6.6, which is required by the game.

Update your Windows installation to Windows 10 version 1909 (Build 18363) or higher

Issues unresolved

SMT and HT causing inconsistent CPU usage

Happens when SMT (Ryzen) or HT (Intel) is enabled.

The game seemingly can't efficiently use the logical cores available via the use of SMT/HT when the CPU has more than 6 cores, disabling it may increase CPU core utilization and improve game performance in CPU intensive scenarios.

Disabling SMT/HT can severely impact the performance of games and applications. Strongly advised to turn it back on after quitting the game.

Currently unknown if developers are aware of this issue and if they are working on a fix.

Disable CPU multithreading
If using Ryzen CPU - Disable SMT (Simultaneous multithreading) in BIOS settings or via the Ryzen Master program. If using an Intel CPU - Disable HT (Hyper-Threading) from BIOS settings

Textures not loading in at full resolution or only really late

The game suffers from an issue where some textures (like on cops, armor and cop cars) appear at a much lower resolution. The cause of this and whether the developers are working on this is unknown. There is no fix or workaround for this bug so far.

Can't progress after playing the side mission Aiding a Human in Silver Lining DLC

In rare cases players have reported their progression halted after playing the side mission Aiding a Human in the Silver Lining DLC. The mission will then not completely resolve, resulting in being unable to fast travel, start new objectives or switch to a different DLC.

Workaround: follow specific instructions
Finishing the Aiding a Human mission. Swing to the Brooklyn Bridge and continue onto the bridge as far as possible. The game will show a warning message. Confirm this message. The player will now be put back into the game and the mission will have completed successfully.

Unable to take a photo of the Empire State Building on Intel GPU

Players running the game on an Intel GPU can run into an issue where taking a photo of the Empire State Building is impossible, which blocks further game progression. This is apparently an Intel GPU driver bug.

Intel is planning to implement the fix into drivers for legacy integrated GPUs (10th generation processors and older) in the future.

Intel ARC GPU: update GPU-driver to 31.0.101.3802 or newer

Intel GPUs on 11th generation processors and newer: update GPU-driver to 31.0.101.3616 or newer

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12
Shader Model support	6.6

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise, XAudio	XAudio v2.7
Interface	Scaleform
Cutscenes	Bink, Annosoft Speech Engine	Bink v2.7p, Annosoft Speech Engine v4.0.25.0 (used for automated lipsync)

John Bubniak Restoration Mod

Restores the original likeness of Peter Parker as portrayed by John Bubniak from the non-remastered PlayStation 4 version of the game.

Use restoration mod

Download Spider-Man PC Modding Tool and unpack the archive to any folder. Run SMPCTool.exe once and select the game's asset archive folder, <path-to-game>\asset_archive\. Download John Bubniak's face return - PS4 face restoration mod and unpack the archive to any folder. From the Modding Tool, select Mod Manager and then Add to add the mod to the list. Click Install Mods To Game. The mod will be applied to the game. Installing John Bubniak Skin Tone and Actual PS4 Peter Photos alongside the main John Bubniak mod is strongly recommended. Installation process is the same.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4160	Intel Core i5-4670 AMD Ryzen 5 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 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB (Nvidia), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The minimum requirements are for 720p 30 FPS at Very Low settings, while 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.