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The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 cover
Developers
Beenox
Publishers
Activision
Russia/CIS Noviy Disk
Engines
Goliath Engine
Release dates
Windows April 29, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 57
OpenCritic 53
IGDB 52
Taxonomy
Series Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on HowLongToBeat
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on IGDB
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 guide on StrategyWiki
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on MobyGames
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Wikipedia
Subseries of Marvel
Spider-Man (1986) 1986
The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge! 1989
The Amazing Spider-Man 1990
Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety 1995
Spider-Man: The Sinister Six 1996
Spider-Man (2001) 2001
Spider-Man (2002) 2002
Spider-Man 2: The Game 2004
Spider-Man 2: Activity Center 2004
Ultimate Spider-Man 2005
Spider-Man 3 2007
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe 2007
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows 2008
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions 2010
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2014
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Virtual Reality Experience 2017
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Virtual Reality Experience 2019
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered 2022
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales 2022

Key points

Vsync caps the game at 30 FPS regardless of refresh rate.[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Black Suit
Windows
Cosmic Spider-Man
Windows
Electro-Proof
Windows
Ends of the Earth
Windows
Iron Spider
Windows
Spider-Man Noir
Windows
While the game is no longer available, the DLCs can still be purchased on Amazon.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[2][3][4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Video
  2. Delete/Rename LogosIntros folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Activision\The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (TM)\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/267550/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\267550\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/267550/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Game launcher featuring the graphics settings
Game launcher featuring the graphics settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Enforces 16:9 letterboxing.
Multi-monitor
Use Flawless Widescreen.
Ultra-widescreen
Use Flawless Widescreen.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA only.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Caps the framerate at 30 FPS. Disable it and force Vsync externally.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 62 FPS when Vsync is disabled.[1] See Unlock FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Unlock FPS

Use Cheat Engine[citation needed]

Use cheat engine and search for 0.016666666666 as a float in rounded (extreme) mode while game.exe is selected in the memory search range and "Writable", "Executable" and "CopyOnWrite is set to "Don't Care"". Two of the values shown will be FPS related. Change both to 0.00277777 for 360 FPS. The game may stutter initially but will get stable after a few seconds. Using v-sync here is recommended. Forcing a refresh rate may be needed as well, see Widescreen notes. Hex editing these values may be possible on some executables; removing the need of following the above process each time the game is launched. Replace all instances of 89 88 88 3C with 3F 0B 36 3B (360 FPS).

Input

Gamepad preset
Gamepad preset

Audio

Audio options.
Audio options.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, FX and Voiceover.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Launcher doesn't work on some systems

Use Custom launcher for workaround[citation needed]

Game keeps defaulting to 800x600 resolution on laptops

Set shadows to "medium"
The same fix works with The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4770
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/267550/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (267550) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References