Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launched on PC yesterday, the newest within the conveyor belt of PlayStation first-party video games that now spend a 12 months or two solely on console earlier than coming to PC. Insomniac’s open-world sequel was typically well-received on console, and the standard of Sony’s PC ports has gave the impression to be bettering over current releases, but it surely appears to be like like port studio Nixxes might have barely fumbled this one.
“Hold off on shopping for till they get a few stabilization patches out as a result of holy hell,” says Lumi Kløvstad. “To say that is “tough” is an understatement. Lighting does not load in some cutscenes, those self same scenes run at seconds-per-frame, audio desync points up the wazoo, freezing, stuttering, and nearly each different efficiency problem I can consider.”
A participant going by the deal with of, erm, Xtreme Hot Diarrhea says it is “crashing each 10 minutes” and retains claiming there’s an issue with their settings being too excessive for his or her GPU, or outdated show drivers. “My PC: NVIDIA RTX 4090 (Newest Driver 572.16), I7 13700KF, DDR 5 32GB 6000MHz.”
There are simply over two thousand evaluations so far break up between constructive and detrimental, so some gamers aren’t operating into these technical points, although it does appear that the people with higher-end playing cards like 4080s and 4090s are operating into essentially the most issues. Players are additionally reporting that the sport goes on the fritz once you fiddle with graphical settings in-game, whereas others are encountering a repeated drawback with crashing in cutscenes.
PC Gamer has a couple of copies on the group, and our outcomes are blended too. “Seems to run fairly easily for me but it surely simply exhausting locked and crashed to desktop 10 minutes in,” says senior editor Robin Valentine on a 3080. “It demanded a driver replace for me too after I booted it, although it nonetheless crashed and stated my drivers weren’t updated.”
“It crashed as a result of I hadn’t up to date my drivers, did an replace and it opened okay,” says video editor Dave Jones. But each add that the sport’s being performing some in any other case spectacular stuff, and outdoors of those moments has been operating OK, so hopefully a couple of hotfixes can deal with the vast majority of points.
At the time of writing Spider-Man 2 has in actual fact simply obtained its first hotfix, which targets “gadget cling crashes that would happen whereas enjoying the sport with ray-tracing enabled.” That might have been what PCG was operating into, so we’ll see if that nixes the overall points that Nixxes’ work has to this point been operating into. But in case you’ve been pondering of dropping the money on Spidey’s newest journey, good luck however perhaps give it per week or two.
