What’s changed, and which modes do we recommend?
Since the beginning of this generation,Insomniac Gameshas stood as one of Sony’s strongest internal developers.
For starters, Insomniac’s excellent temporal injection has been replaced with PSSR.
As with the base PS5 version, there is a 40fps mode and uncapped options for both modes.
We know that additional RT features are available, but what else changes?
The answer is surprisingly comprehensive.
If you’re using fidelity mode, I recommend enabling it.
Next up is RT reflections and interiors.
This means that both reflections themselves show more detail along with the interior spaces.
Lastly, we have RTAO (ray-traced ambient occlusion).
This is a very subtle feature, but one that adds more accurate contact shadows across the scene.
This is visible from the title screen under Spider-Man’s wrist, if you want a quick comparison.
The bigger question is which mode is right for you?
All of this is achieved with excellent image quality and all the RT features engaged.
Disabling these features has a minimal impact on performance, suggesting the game is bottlenecked elsewhere in this mode.
Now, if you fancy a higher frame-rate, the performance pro mode will offer you that.
The performance mode also benefits with numbers much higher on average than Spider-Man 2.
