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 the Marvel origin story and PlayStation hit to PC. To give you more insight into supporting ultra-wide monitors and multiple monitor setups*, I’d like to introduce you to some of our Nixxes team members.
Graphics programmer Hilze Vonck, an avid gamer of ultra-wide monitors, personally researched the implementation of the ultra-wide aspect ratio technique in the PC version of the game. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. “For 5 years, I’ve been using 21:9 ultra-wide monitors. For me, support for ultra-wide resolutions in games is really important. We want to give gamers who invest heavily in their setup the chance to game in the best way possible. It really makes a big difference when you’re viewing the game on an ultra-wide or triple monitor setup. It’s great to experience the game this way! “
Lead software engineer Coen Frauenfelder explains that one of the reasons to go all-in with ultra-widescreen support is the positive feedback from the gaming community about 21:9 support in other PC games . “We originally planned support for 21:9, and after some internal testing, we decided to expand it further and add support for 32:9 and 48:9 displays to setups. three screens. Loan games are great for that. Swinging through the streets of Marvel’s New York on an ultra-wide screen offers a completely different and more immersive feel. “
PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Fully optimized for ultra-wide gaming. Not only the gameplay, but many of the cutscenes have also been adjusted for panoramic aspect ratios up to 32:9. Coen talks about the challenges Nixxes had to overcome to make this a reality:
“Implementing ultra wide support in gameplay is generally relatively easy. The big challenge is supporting it in clips specifically designed by artists to be viewed on 16:9 screens. Outside of that viewing area, there’s a lot going on that needs to be fixed. For example, characters may freeze or suddenly disappear. The easy way would be to put black borders in the cut scenes to block these areas from view on ultra-wide monitors, but we wanted to give PC gamers the ability to use their full screen. . Our QA team scrutinized all the cutscenes at an ultra-wide angle and listed all the details that our engineers and artists had to change.”
Coen emphasizes how difficult it has been to achieve all of that: “We know it takes a lot of effort to achieve success, but our team is passionate and committed to achieving results. tallest. Hilze’s enthusiasm for it meant he had to work a lot on the technical aspects of implementing ultra-wide support. “
As a result, the videos in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC is fully viewable in aspect ratios up to 32:9. When using a wider aspect ratio, such as with a triple monitor setup, the outer edges are blurred during cutscenes. This is necessary to block areas from view that would otherwise have a visual error. In addition to his work on the extra-wide assist motor, Hilze also works on: “It’s not an easy feature to implement. It took a while, but I think it looks really great.”
Outside of games and movies, the system engineers at Nixxes ensure that the user interface and menus support widescreen aspect ratios. When using the ultra-wide screen, you can change the position of the HUD to different positions.
We know that not all of you have ultra-wide monitors or multiple monitor setups. On a traditional 16:9 display, the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered also provide many improvements. The game features enhanced ray tracing reflections**, supports NVIDIA DLSS and other upscaling technologies, and offers a full set of customizable rendering settings.
Everyone at Nixxes was extremely excited to work on this project with our friends at Insomniac. We’d love to hear about your experience playing Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC. Contact us on Twitter and follow us to stay updated!
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered for PC available today on Steam and in Epic game store.
* Requires compatible PC and display device.
** Requires a compatible PC.
