Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 recommended specs and PC features detailed

With just a day to go until Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swings from PlayStation to PC, Sony has shared details on its PC-enhanced features, as well as the hardware required to run it.

Digital Foundry called Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 a “new showcase” for visual detail and ray tracing when it released for PS5 in 2023, and Sony’s new PC version – ported by the Sony-owned Nixxes – is looking to build on that with a range of platform-focused additions.

In is run-down of Spider-Man 2’s PC release, for instance, Sony highlights, “new ray-tracing options with individual quality settings to finetune performance and fidelity across a broad range of hardware configurations.” There’s also talk of options for ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion – adding what Sony calls “an additional layer of believability with realistic shadows and increased depth to the game.

Players with beefy enough hardware can also take advantage of an increased raytracing geometry detail settings, which enables higher quality meshes for raytracing, and there’s an object range slider, enabling users to manually adjust the range at which objects are considered for raytracing. There’s also support for Nvidia’s DLSS Ray Reconstruction, alongside the likes of DLSS 3 and FSR 3.1 for upscaling and frame generation. And PC players who like their monitors long also get ultra-wide support, at ratios including 21:9, 32:9, and 48:9.

Sony has also released system requirements for Marvel’s Spider-man 2, with its minimum specification targeting 720P at 30fps with Very Low settings. Those with considerably more powerful hardware (which is to say, an RTX 4090 and i9-12900K/Ryzen 7 7800X3D) can aim for 60fps at 4K resolutions, using Very High Ray Tracing Ultimate settings.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 releases for PC via Steam and Epic on 30th January, and we recently learned it won’t require a PSN account to play after all. Full recommended PC secs are below.