Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was launched on Steam final month after over a yr of PS5 exclusivity. When the sport first launched, many Steam Deck house owners questioned how nicely it might run on their units. Properly, the reply was: not so nice. And though there have been complaints about its efficiency on the hand held, the sport has lately obtained Verified standing on the Steam Deck. This comes as a shock, and additional testing confirms that there’s nonetheless rather a lot left to be desired.
Spider Man 2 doesn’t run nicely on the Steam Deck regardless of getting a Verified badge
For many who don’t know, Valve has a system to assist Steam Deck customers know which video games will run nicely on their units. This technique places video games into three classes: Verified, Playable, and Unsupported.
- Verified means the sport runs easily on the Steam Deck with no main points.
- Playable means the sport can run, but it surely may want some tweaks or have small issues.
- Unsupported means the sport has main points and will not work nicely.
The system is designed to assist Steam Deck house owners select video games simply. Nevertheless, some video games up to now have obtained a Verified badge regardless of operating poorly on the hand held, akin to Remaining Fantasy 7 Rebirth. It appears Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is one other instance, as SteamDeckHQ lately examined the sport after it was Verified and located that it does not run in addition to the score suggests.
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SteamDeckHQ seen that on the default graphics configuration, which the sport mechanically units to try to give the very best expertise doable, there have been instances when the FPS dropped to 30 and even 28. In heavier scenes, the FPS may drop additional, however the recreation’s lack of ability to keep up a steady FPS suggests it did not deserve the ‘Verified’ badge but. To make issues worse, the sport additionally crashed for SteamDeckHQ attributable to excessive RAM utilization.
Contemplating how issues are for the time being, Spider-Man 2 ought to most likely have a Playable badge as an alternative of Verified, as SteamDeckHQ notes that it might run nicely after some tweaks and changes.
Additional testing from Deck Wizard reveals seen stutters all through, particularly throughout fight. Based mostly on the footage under, you will get nearer to the 60 FPS mark by using FSR 3.1 Body Technology, however as we found in our testing of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii on the Steam Deck, anticipate to undergo from an annoying quantity of enter lag.
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