Spider-Man 2 on PC was shaping up to be surprisingly performant as soon as its system necessities had been revealed. Nevertheless, the Nixxes-developed port has debuted to a ‘blended’ Steam consumer evaluation score, with many gamers complaining about technical points.
At present, 55% of Spider-Man 2’s Steam evaluations are optimistic. “Regardless of having a high-end GPU and operating the newest Nvidia drivers (5.66.36), the sport ceaselessly crashes,” said one RTX 4090 user. One other read: “The sport is totally unplayable on PC. The sport crashes to desktop each 5 minutes. I’ve already requested a refund.”
“Maintain off on shopping for till they get a few stabilization patches out as a result of holy hell,” one reviewer added. “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 challenge I can consider.
“I am gonna get a refund for now as a result of frankly, there’s different stuff I might use $70 for proper now.”
The primary challenge seems to be that the sport’s graphics controller crashes ceaselessly, even with customers on higher-end PCs. In accordance to one reviewer, the error reads: “An issue has occurred along with your show driver. This may be brought on by outdated drivers, utilizing recreation settings increased than your GPU can deal with, an overheating GPU, or an error with the sport. Please attempt updating your graphics drivers, or decreasing your in-game settings.”
Different customers have complained that options like DLSS and ray tracing will not be working correctly, whereas (*2*) have talked about lengthy loading occasions, lacking textures, and audio points.
A number of gamers alleged that efficiency may stutter after a number of hours of gameplay, earlier than main to a tough crash. Some imagine a reminiscence leak might trigger the issues.
Nixxes has responded to the reported crashes on the Steam boards, stating to one consumer: “Sorry to hear you might be experiencing points.
“Please refer to the troubleshooting guides on the Nixxes Support website and make contact with us if the issue persists. Be certain to embrace your logs and crash dumps as outlined on the assist web site, so we will troubleshoot as shortly as doable.”
Moreover, Nixxes was made conscious of different bugs that may happen throughout the photo-op missions in Spider-Man 2. “We’re conscious of a bug that may happen in case your framerate may be very low throughout this scene (beneath 20 FPS). As a workaround, attempt decreasing your graphics settings and or decision to cross this level.”
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