Two games from PlayStation Studios have recently received updates to support PlayStation 5 Pro.

Interestingly, both titles are from Insomniac Games, so they’ve essentially doubled down, with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. What did the patch bring to the game? They got a little closer to PC graphics customization, but not by much: you can’t just toggle every option as if you were running the ransomware-stricken studio’s products from Steam.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 have been given Performance Pro and Fidelity Pro graphics modes. The former, with a 60 fps frame rate, delivers the same image quality as the base PlayStation 5’s enhanced visual mode (all with ray tracing), while the latter, with a 30 fps frame rate, adds new ray tracing (RT) features that can be combined to deliver higher frame rates when using VRR (variable frame rate) and 120 Hz mode. All thanks to the PSSR.

In Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, the PlayStation 5 Pro patch allows you to turn RT reflections and ambient occlusion on and off, while in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, in addition to RT reflections and interiors and RT ambient occlusion, there is also RT light shadows (which uses ray tracing to calculate the sun’s shadows in the medium distance, replacing cascading shadow maps). So if one of the ray tracing options is not needed, it can be turned off, which can make performance more stable.

We’ve previously reported that The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered and Alan Wake 2 have also received the PlayStation 5 Pro support patch, so support for the console is slowly coming in, although its release is still nearly two weeks away as it will be available to buy from November 7th (for $700/€800; Blu-ray drive and vertical stand are extra).

Source: WCCFTech, Insomniac Games