Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC features and ray-tracing options detailed, out tomorrow – PlayStation.Blog
Hey everyone, we’re just one day away from bringing the latest epic chapter in the Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise to PC, where you’ll battle as Spider-Men, Peter Parker and Miles Morales, against a rogue’s gallery of iconic Marvel Super Villains, including the monstrous Venom and the ruthless Kraven the Hunter.
With the game launching soon, I’m excited to share more about the awesome new PC-enhanced features the team at Nixxes has been working on.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, created by Insomniac in collaboration with Marvel, is a technological and graphical showcase utilizing tools like ray-tracing to bring the city of Marvel’s New York to life. On PC, you’ll encounter a variety of new ray-tracing options with individual quality settings to finetune performance and fidelity across a broad range of hardware configurations.
Ray-traced reflections quickly catch your eye in the skyscraper-filled city of Marvel’s New York as you swing along its many glass surfaces. Meanwhile, we’re offering ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion options that add an additional layer of believability with realistic shadows and increased depth to the game.
If you have a high-performance PC with Super Hero-tier hardware, you can take advantage of our increased raytracing geometry detail setting. This enables the use of higher quality meshes for raytracing, resulting in more detailed and realistic reflections. You can also use the raytracing object range slider to increase the range at which objects are considered for raytracing. Furthermore, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC includes NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction1, which improves raytracing quality on supported hardware. Let me introduce you to Menno Bil, Graphics Programmer at Nixxes, to tell you more about this feature:
“NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction aims to achieve more detailed raytracing features by combining two separate temporal processes in a frame: denoising of the raytracing features and upscaling of the entire frame. By combining these steps, ray reconstruction keeps more useful information over multiple frames to add small details in raytracing effects that can otherwise be lost.
In Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC with ray reconstruction enabled, we see more detailed ray-traced reflections and better-defined ray-traced shadows, especially when viewing raytracing effects at steep angles. We also see improvements in the ray-traced interiors and less ghosting and noise in the ray-traced ambient occlusion.
We’ve included two models of NVIDIA’s Ray Reconstruction, the original model introduced in DLSS 3.5, and a newly improved model designed for RTX 40 series GPUs and newer. This new model results in an overall more temporally stable image, further improving the visual quality of raytracing.”
– Menno Bil, Graphics Programmer, Nixxes
Players with ultra-wide monitors can enjoy full support for ultra-wide aspect ratios such as 21:9, 32:9 and even 48:9 when using triple monitor setups. Our team of engineers and artists worked hard on ensuring all cinematics in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 are adapted to be fully viewable in aspect ratios up to 32:9.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC also supports various performance-enhancing technologies, including NVIDIA DLSS 3 and AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling and frame generation.* Intel XeSS upscaling is also supported.1
With options like raytracing and ultra-wide support, we want to give players the chance to make full use of their high-end PC gaming rigs. However, at Nixxes we also take pride in making PC games scale down to prior generation hardware. To cater to this, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC offers a wide range of graphics settings and presets, including options without ray-tracing, like dynamic resolution scaling. Check out an overview of the recommended specifications for a variety of graphics presets below.
| Minimum | Recommended | High | High Ray Tracing | Very High Ray Tracing | Ultimate Ray Tracing | |
| Avg. Performance | 720P @ 30 FPS | 1080P @ 60 FPS | 1440P @ 60 FPS | 1440p @ 60 FPS | 1440p @ 60 FPS | 4K @ 60 FPS |
| Graphics Presets | Very Low | Medium | High | High Ray Tracing High |
High Ray Tracing Very High |
Very High Ray Tracing Ultimate |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 5700 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon RX 6800 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
| CPU | Intel Core i3-8100 AMD Ryzen 3 3100 |
Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
Intel Core i5-11400 AMD Ryzen 5 5600 |
Intel Core i5-11600K AMD Ryzen 5 5600X |
Intel Core i7-12700K AMD Ryzen 9 5900X |
Intel Core i9-12900K AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
| RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| OS | Windows 10/11 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
Windows 10/11 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
Windows 10/11 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
Windows 10/11 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
Windows 10/11 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
Windows 10/11 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
| SSD Storage | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB | 140 GB |
Two editions of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will be available when it launches on PC on January 30, including the Standard Edition and Digital Deluxe Edition (DDE). Players will also have the option to upgrade to the DDE content if they already own the Standard Edition.
Upon purchase, the previously announced Pre-Purchase offer will be made available to all players as PC Purchase Perks. This includes:
- Arachknight Suit early unlock for Peter with three color variants
- Shadow-Spider Suit early unlock for Miles with three color variants
- Web Grabber gadget early unlock
- +3 Skill Points
Players will receive two early unlock suits: the Spider-Man 2099 Black Suit and the Miles Morales 2099 Suit, plus additional benefits like trophies and friend management if they opt to connect to a PlayStation Network account. A PlayStation Network account is optional to play Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC. ?
Our friends at Insomniac are also excited to collaborate with NetEase Games and Marvel Games to bring Peter Parker’s Advanced Suit 2.0 from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to Marvel Rivals. To celebrate Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s upcoming PC release, Marvel Rivals players can purchase this suit in-game starting 6PM PST on January 29. Check out the Advanced Suit 2.0 in action.
Nixxes and Insomniac, along with our partners at PlayStation and collaborators at Marvel Games, are excited for everyone to experience Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC!
*Compatible PC and graphics card required.