Nixxes Software seems to have failed to properly port Insomniac Games’ game to the PC.
Perhaps it was no coincidence that Sony’s studio announced the system requirements ONE DAY before the PC port was released. Quite simply, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 didn’t get much hype with its port. And for good reason: On Steam, 58% of the reviews are positive, even though Nixxes is not a fake studio. Many people complain about this error message, which has the error code 0x887A0006: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG: “A problem has occurred with your display driver. This can be caused by outdated drivers, using game settings higher than your GPU can handle, an overheated GPU (current GPU temperature: [X] Celsius), or a bug in the game. Please try updating your graphics drivers or lowering your in-game settings. Current GPU and video driver: [Y], [Z]”.
In the image below, the latest driver 572.16 was used with the RTX 5090. The temperature was 70 degrees Celsius, which is not overheating (a card with non-functioning fans is usually at this temperature…), so this is more a problem for the game, not the most powerful graphics card currently available. Anyway, there are many things you can adjust in the port: Texture Quality (up to Very High), Texture Filtering (up to 16x Anisotropic), Shadow Quality (up to Ultra), Depth of Field (up to High), Detail Level (up to Ultra), Traffic Density (up to Very High), Crowd Density (up to Ultra), Hair Quality (up to Very High), Screen Space Reflections (up to High), Weather Particle Quality (up to Very High).
There are also several raytracing options: Reflections (up to Very High), Interiors (up to Very High), Shadows (up to Very High), Ambient Occlusion (up to Very High), as well as Ray Tracing Object Range (a slider that goes up to 10) and DLSS Ray Reconstruction (Legacy, meaning CNN or Transformer) if you have an Nvidia graphics card.
Sony and Nixxes responded quickly, and that’s why the Steam rating is now 58%, up from 55 yesterday. They have released a hotfix (v1.31.0.0) that fixes exactly this problem when playing with raytracing. But it is still very embarrassing. It’s like they rushed the port when we heard it was ready last spring!
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