With only a day to go till Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swings onto PC, Sony has shared particulars of its platform-enhanced options, in addition to the {hardware} required to run it.
Digital Foundry referred to as Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 a “new showcase” for visible element and ray tracing when it launched for PS5 in 2023, and its new PC model – ported by the Sony-owned Nixxes – is seeking to construct on that with a spread of platform-focused additions.
In its Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC weblog publish, for example, Sony highlights, “new raytracing choices with particular person high quality settings to finetune efficiency and constancy throughout a broad vary of {hardware} configurations”. There’s additionally discuss of settings for raytraced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion – including what Sony calls “an extra layer of believability with lifelike shadows and elevated depth to the sport”.
Gamers with beefy sufficient {hardware} can moreover benefit from an elevated raytracing geometry element setting, which allows larger high quality meshes for raytracing. There’s additionally an object vary slider, enabling customers to manually modify the vary at which objects are thought-about for raytracing, as nicely help for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, and DLSS 3 and FSR 3.1 for upscaling and body technology. Moreover, PC gamers who like their displays lengthy get ultra-wide help, at ratios together with 21:9, 32:9, and 48:9.
All of which brings us to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s PC system necessities, with Sony’s minimal specification concentrating on 720p at 30fps on Very Low settings. These with significantly extra highly effective {hardware} (which is to say, an RTX 4090 and i9-12900K/Ryzen 7 7800X3D) can intention for 60fps at 4K resolutions, utilizing Very Excessive Ray Tracing Final settings. Full advisable PC specs might be discovered beneath.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 releases for PC through Steam and Epic on Thursday, thirtieth January – and as we lately realized, it will not require a PSN account to play in spite of everything.
Minimal
Really useful
Excessive
Excessive Ray Tracing
Very Excessive Ray Tracing
Final Ray Tracing
Avg. Efficiency
720P @ 30 FPS
1080P @ 60 FPS
1440P @ 60 FPS
1440p @ 60 FPS
1440p @ 60 FPS
4K @ 60 FPS
Graphics Presets
Very Low
Medium
Excessive
Excessive
Ray Tracing Excessive
Excessive
Ray Tracing Very Excessive
Very Excessive
Ray Tracing Final
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
Home windows 10/11 64-bit
(model 1909 or larger)
Home windows 10/11 64-bit
(model 1909 or larger)
Home windows 10/11 64-bit
(model 1909 or larger)
Home windows 10/11 64-bit
(model 1909 or larger)
Home windows 10/11 64-bit
(model 1909 or larger)
Home windows 10/11 64-bit
(model 1909 or larger)
SSD Storage
140 GB
140 GB
140 GB
140 GB
140 GB
140 GB
