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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 — PS5 emulator
Stable, and the title that will tell you most about whether your storage and CPU are up to it.
At a glance
Status
Stable
Stable
Heaviest on
CPU and storage
CPU and storage
Storage
NVMe SSD recommended
NVMe SSD recommended
Renderer
Vulkan 1.3
Vulkan 1.3
Where it stands
Spider-Man 2 carries a Stable chip, meaning it boots reliably and survives long play rather than just reaching a menu. It is one of the better-behaved large open worlds in the app.
It is also the least forgiving title here for a slow disk. Swinging across the city streams assets constantly, and a mechanical drive will show it as hitching that no setting inside Vesper can smooth over.
What the hardware does
Traversal is CPU-bound more than most people expect, so the 8-core recommendation on the spec page is doing real work here rather than padding a table.
- Put the game on an NVMe SSD if you have one.
- Keep the graphics driver current, since Vulkan 1.3 comes from the driver.
- Close background capture and overlay software before a session.
Playing it on a pad
A DualSense over USB is the closest match to how the game was designed, and the trigger and haptic behaviour carries across. Xbox and other Windows gamepads work, and keyboard and mouse remain available throughout the launcher.
If the pad connects but does nothing in-game, the DualSense how-to walks through the usual cause.
Questions
What frame rate does Spider-Man 2 hit on Vesper?
We publish no frame-rate figures for any title. Results depend on your CPU, GPU, storage, and the current build, and open-world traversal varies even within one session.
Why does it stutter while swinging?
Almost always storage or a busy CPU. Move the game to an SSD and close overlay software, then see the low-FPS checklist for the rest.
Does Miles Morales work as well?
Spider-Man: Miles Morales also carries a Stable chip in the app and is lighter on hardware than Spider-Man 2.
Get Vesper for Windows
Free installer for 64-bit Windows 10 and 11.