Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man (2002)

Developers
	Treyarch
Windows	LTI Gray Matter
Publishers
	Activision
Engines
	Treyarch NGL
Release dates
Windows	April 14, 2002
Reception
Metacritic	75
IGDB	75
Taxonomy
Series	Spider-Man

Key points

Does not contain the two Kraven levels found in the Xbox version.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Disc 2 is used for check. (also used for FMV cutscenes if not fully installed.)

This game is not available digitally.

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\

Video

VIDEO OPTIONS

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD			See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		MSAA can be forced through the graphics card control panel.
High-fidelity upscaling
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		FMVs are locked at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Field of view

Hex edit field of view value[citation needed]
Back up <path-to-game>\SpiderMan.exe. Open <path-to-game>\SpiderMan.exe with a hex editor such as HxD Search for 35 FA 8E 3C Replace it with 00 00 AB 3C (for 16:10) or 00 00 BE 3C for (16:9)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Strong mouse acceleration in-game. Can't be disabled.
Mouse sensitivity		Low, Medium, High settings.
Mouse input in menus		No mouse acceleration in menus.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Uses DirectInput and won't recognize all XInput inputs. If your controller has a DirectInput mode, use that. If not, see Game doesn't recognize all inputs from XInput controller.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

DualShock 4 controllers
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modes	unknown

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

• 

  MOUSE SENSITIVITY

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  MOUSE SETUP

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  CONTROLLER SETUP

• 

  KEYBOARD SETUP 1

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  KEYBOARD SETUP 2

Audio

AUDIO OPTIONS

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese				Fan translation; download (GGames).

VR support

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

Issues fixed

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. AntiMicro may need to be run as Administrator in order for some button presses to be detected. 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.

Vsync (always on) not working on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo2
Download dgvoodoo2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the \MS\x86\ folder to the game install directory.

Black screen in the tutorial

Install patch.
Install patch 1.3.

Issues unresolved

Crash/black screen with resolutions higher than 640x480 in Windows 10

If the game is set to a resolution higher than 640x480 in Windows 10, the game will attempt to change resolutions and might freeze on a black screen after the intro movies, when starting or loading a game, or even whenever you navigate through the menus to watch movies/cutscenes. The only solution so far is to play in 640x480. Unknown if there is a fix to play at higher resolutions.

Play in 640x480[citation needed]

Try using dgVoodoo2 and DxWnd[citation needed]
A possible workaround is to run the game using dgVoodoo2 and DxWnd. Follow the method for setup in Cutscenes are distorted.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video	Only for logos, 8 cutscenes, and 2, test animation videos.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz AMD Athlon	Intel Pentium III 550 MHz AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8.1 compatible
Controller		Gamepad with 12 or more buttons
Other	4X CD-ROM

Supported video chipsets: ATI Radeon 7200/7500/8500, Nvidia GeForce 256/2MX/2GTS/2Ultra/3/3Ti/4/4MX