Spider-man fans, get ready to be hugely disappointed. The Amazing Spider-man 2 has just been released on the PC and we are sad to report that the game is locked at 30FPS when VSync is enabled. Yes, 30FPS in a Spider-man game; a game in which framerate is crucial. It’s ironic but the last game locked at 30FPS I can remember was NFS: Rivals (and before that Dark Souls). And despite the fact that the game itself is not THAT demanding, Beenox (or whoever handled the PC port) decided to lock the framerate for unknown reasons.
As a result of this lock, a lot of you will get ‘sick’ (aka nauseous) with the game’s performance while travelling through the city. And that’s a huge disappointment as everyone was expecting the PC version to – at least – offer a better framerate than its console counterpart.
We are currently preparing a Performance Analysis for it and from what we’ve seen thus far, The Amazing Spider-man is an underwhelming port, so stay tuned for more!
[UPDATE]
We should note that this happens only when in-game VSync is enabled. Thankfully, you can disable it. By disabling it, the game’s framerate is locked at 62FPS.
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No it’s not. I ran it at 40-50-60 frames yesterday, when i was checking the game out. The problem is the very poor optimization, the framerate is all over the place
its locked at 30 with vsync PLUS it has atrocious optimization.
You better check your sources or deactivate v-sync, John. Game has variable framerate.
ok then, disable vsync, force adaptive vsync from nvidia control panel or use d3doverider
“Thankfully, you can disable it. By disabling it, the game’s framerate is locked at 62FPS”
or you can enable adaptive v-sync in ncidia control panel 😀 just add the game exe to it and in v-sync option choose adaptive, then you have a spidy game locked at 60fps without tearing
If you have AMD you can set Dynamic Vsync via RadeonPro (same thing, basically).
I think the 62fps thing can cause issues in games (input lag etc), probably better at 60.
Modders will provide
no wonder it runs like shit. i hear its dx9 , if you don’t have latest intel at 4.5 ghz , forget about constant 60 fps
DX9 has nothing to do with performance in general. At least, there is no reason to think that it being DX11 would make it run any better necessarily. We’ve had years of DX9 games that ran just fine :p
it does actually , dx9 is lot heavier on CPU and usually takes advantage of only one core. thats why game drops fps , and my GPU is around 70% usage.
No… DX9 can support multi-threading fine but DX11 was intended to make it more progammer friendly. It doesn’t really matter since multi-threading isn’t even that relevant for graphics in most cases. Graphics is generally dependent primarily on your GPU and DX9 isn’t going to perform horribly here just because it is DX9 when it has been used in almost every game so far. DX10 and DX11 only games do not exist. It doesn’t even run that bad. I get 60 FPS with vsync enabled at max settings at 1920×1200 (above 1080p) on a single GTX 770 and with a i7-4770k OC at 4.2GHz. I am getting overkill performance. Those on lesser specs can certainly get great performance in this game.
witcher 2 and shadow warrior run like crap because they couldnt use the improved dx10/dx1 rendering and optimization techniques.
Performance issues aside, is the game any good to begin with? From what I’ve read, media outlets haven’t received any review copies which is usually a bad sign.
one issue I’ve found is that the game’s controller scheme tends to change from keyboard mouse to game pad controller in the middle of playing the game. not good. so I’m using an xbox 360 controller and much of the time the controller scheme shows up correctly but every now and then it reverts to keyboard mouse at the wrong times f’ng up the game play big time. Not sure if anyone else has this problem playing it.
i have the same issue have u find the fix
No support for 120hz or 144hz monitors, Well that’s a shame I don’t think ill bother with this game then.
This is completely false. I am playing, currently, at max settings 1920×1200 with vsync enabled and am getting 60 fps locked. When unlocked I can go well above 100 fps.
how??
amazing spidy 2 game is full of blury give me a sol..