Marvel's Spider-Man is a single-player open-world action-adventure where you spend most of your time web-swinging at high speed through a dense, living recreation of New York City. Players swing between skyscrapers, dive into combo-based combat against street-level criminals and super-villains, and complete story missions alongside side activities like stopping crimes in progress or collecting suits and gadgets. The experience feels most rewarding when movement and combat stay perfectly smooth, letting the fluid traversal physics and responsive dodging truly sell the fantasy of being Spider-Man. At high refresh rates the game becomes very sensitive to CPU performance. Urban density, pedestrian crowds, vehicle traffic, and the constant physics calculations for web lines all create heavy draw calls and simulation load. This makes the title famously CPU-intensive when targeting frame rates well above 100 FPS at lower resolutions, with GPU usage often dropping even on strong graphics cards. The smallest stutters in 1% lows become noticeable and irritating when you're zipping along building faces or chaining aerial combos. Many players also use community mods that add higher-resolution textures, improved shadows, or extra visual effects, which can further increase memory and CPU pressure. Common pain points include frustrating frame-time spikes during long swings through busy districts and the sense that the system isn't delivering the instantaneous response the gameplay demands. A high-FPS build therefore needs to prioritize processor speed, cache, and fast memory bandwidth before chasing extreme GPU power.