It has only been a day since Spider-Man 2 launched on PC, and users are already reporting a wave of issues plaguing the game. According to posts on Twitter/X, many players are experiencing crashes every five minutes, with no clear fix in sight. The issue isn’t limited to just NVIDIA GPUs, as AMD users are also facing similar crashes at random intervals. It’s unclear whether this is a driver-related problem or a game issue, but crashes aren’t the only concern.

On top of that, some users have reported that frame generation is inconsistent, failing to provide stable frame rates. This is disappointing, especially since the game launched with support for DLSS 3.5 (featuring a newly improved model for RTX 40 series), as well as Intel XeSS and AMD FSR 3.1. While launch-day issues aren’t uncommon, the real question is how long it will take for the developers to release fixes and updates.

Turning ray tracing off fixes crashes, but not for everyone

According to mpr_reviews, the game crashes with an error suggesting a display driver issue, which could be caused by outdated GPU drivers, settings exceeding the GPU’s capabilities, or overheating. On the bright side, some users who are experiencing the same error and crashes have managed to fix it by turning ray tracing off or switching from Ray Tracing Transformer mode to CNN. Unfortunately, these fixes aren’t working for everyone. Several players have reported that disabling ray tracing hasn’t solved the issue. The same goes for mpr_reviews, who claims that the game continues to crash regardless of whether ray tracing, ray reconstruction, or other related settings are enabled or disabled.

NVIDIA GPUs seem to be hit hardest, but AMD isn’t in the clear either

Most users reporting crashes appear to be running NVIDIA GPUs, suggesting the issue could be driver-related – and that seems to be the case here. According to mpr_reviews, a similar DLSS Frame Generation issue was present in other AAA titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and God of War: Ragnarok, but rolling back to a previous 566.xx driver resolved it. One user tested this theory and found that reverting to the 566.36 driver version did indeed fix the issue for them.

That said, AMD GPUs aren’t entirely unaffected either. One player with a Radeon RX 7900 XTX reported solid performance but still encountered their first crash about 15 minutes into the game. However, compared to NVIDIA users, it’s unclear how widespread the issue is for AMD GPUs. While reverting to older drivers has worked for NVIDIA users, there haven’t been reports of AMD users suggesting a similar fix. Interestingly, gamers with Ampere and Blackwell architecture GPUs seem to be the sole winners here, as players using RTX 30 series GPUs are reporting smoother performance compared to those on the RTX 40 series.

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