Hi everyone, I’m Julian Huijbregts, Community Manager at Nixxes. Today we celebrate the launch of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on pc!
Over the past year, our team has worked closely with our friends at Insomniac Games to bring this original Marvel story and PlayStation hit to PC. To give you more insight into the support of ultra-wide monitors and multiple screen configurations*, let me introduce you to some members of our Nixxes team.
Graphics programmer Hilze Vonck, herself a passionate ultra-widescreen gamer, worked on the technical implementation of ultra-wide aspect ratios in the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. “I’ve been using a 21:9 ultra-wide monitor for five years. Support for ultra-wide resolutions in games is very important to me. We want to give gamers who invest a lot in their setup the opportunity to play the game in the best possible way. It really makes a big difference when you see the game on ultra-wide or triple monitor setups. It’s super cool to experience the game this way!”
Lead Software Engineer Coen Frauenfelder explains that one of the reasons for pulling out all the stops with support for ultra-wide monitors was the positive feedback from the gaming community about 21:9 support in other PC games. “We initially planned to support 21:9, and after some internal testing, we decided to go even wider and add support for 32:9 displays and 48:9 for triple monitor setups. The game is perfect for that. Swinging through the streets of Marvel’s New York on an ultra-wide screen gives a very different and more immersive feeling.”
The PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is fully optimized for ultra-wide gaming. Not only the gameplay, but also the many cutscenes have been adapted for panoramic aspect ratios up to 32:9. Coen talks about the challenges Nixxes had to overcome to make this possible:
“Implementing ultra-wide support into general gameplay is relatively easy. The big challenge is to support it in movies specially designed by artists to be viewed on 16:9 screens. Outside that viewing area, there are many things that need to be repaired. For example, characters may freeze or disappear suddenly. The easy way would be to put black borders in cutscenes to block out these areas on ultra-wide screens, but we wanted to give PC gamers the ability to fully utilize their screens. Our QA team went through all of the ultra-wide view cutscenes in detail and listed all the details that needed to be changed by our engineers and artists.”
Coen emphasizes how difficult it was to get it all right: “We knew it would take a lot of effort to get it done, but our team was passionate and committed to getting the most out of it. Hilze’s enthusiasm led him to work a lot on the technical aspects of implementing ultra-wide support.”
As a result, film is in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC are fully visible in aspect ratios up to 32:9. When using even wider aspect ratios, such as in triple monitor setups, the outer edges will be blurred during cutscenes. This is necessary to block out areas of view that might otherwise have visual errors. In addition to his work on the ultra-wide support engine, Hilze also worked on this: “That was not an easy feature to implement. It took a while, but I think it looks really great.”
In addition to gameplay and cinematics, system engineers at Nixxes have made sure that the user interface and menus support widescreen aspect ratios. When using ultra-wide monitors, you can change the position of the HUD in different positions.
We know that not all of you have ultra-wide screens or multiple monitors. On traditional 16:9 screens, the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered also offers many improvements. The game features enhanced ray-traced reflections**, supports NVIDIA DLSS and other upscaling technologies, and offers a full range of customizable display settings.
Everyone at Nixxes was incredibly excited to work on this project with our friends at Insomniac. We’d love to hear about your experiences playing the Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on pc. Contact us on Twitter and follow us to stay informed!
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered for PC is available today on Steam and the Epic Games Store.
*Compatible PC and display device required.
**Compatible PC required.
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