Unveiling the Ultimate Guide to Spider-Man 2: System Requirements and PC Features

With just a day remaining until Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 makes its debut on PC, Sony has revealed significant details about its platform-specific enhancements and the necessary hardware to run it.

Digital Foundry described Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 as a “new demonstration” of visual fidelity and ray tracing when it was released for PS5 in 2023, and its new PC version – adapted by the Sony-owned Nixxes – aims to build on that with a variety of platform-focused features.

In its Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC blog post, Sony mentions “new ray tracing options with individual quality settings to fine-tune performance and fidelity across a wide array of hardware setups.” Furthermore, it includes discussions about ray-traced interiors, shadows, and ambient occlusion — adding what Sony terms “an extra layer of realism with lifelike shadows and greater depth to the game.”

Players with sufficiently powerful hardware can also take advantage of an enhanced ray tracing geometry detail setting, which allows for higher-quality meshes for ray tracing. An object distance slider is also included, giving users the ability to manually adjust the distance at which objects are considered for ray tracing, along with support for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, DLSS 3, and FSR 3.1 for upscaling and frame technology. Additionally, PC players who prefer their monitors wider can enjoy ultra-wide support, with ratios such as 21:9, 32:9, and 48:9.

This leads us to the PC system requirements for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, with Sony’s minimum specifications aiming for 720p at 30fps on Very Low settings. Those with significantly more robust hardware (namely, an RTX 4090 and i9-12900K/Ryzen 7 7800X3D) can target 60fps at 4K resolutions using Very High Ray Tracing Ultimate settings. Full recommended PC specifications can be found below.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launches for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on Thursday, January 30th – and as we recently discovered, it will not require a PSN account to play after all.