Settings
Everything the launcher used to hold
Resolution, refresh rate, anti aliasing, anisotropic filtering, vsync, motion blur, brightness, gamma, contrast, shadows, lighting, city density, language.
The Amazing Spider-Man · 2012 · PC
Swing Again
The best (and only) custom launcher for Activision's Spider-Man game.
Windows 10 and 11.
01 · The state of it
Three things are broken
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01
The launcher
Every graphics option lives inside a launcher that dies before it draws a window.
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02
Steam's Play button
It opens that launcher. So it opens nothing.
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03
The 2 GB ceiling
A 32 bit build with the large address flag switched off. Swing around long enough and it runs out of room.
02 · The tool
One window, four tabs
Patches
Fix the game, then raise its ceiling
Applies the community fix, flips the large address flag so the game can reach 4 GB, and hands you the launch options line Steam needs.
Backups
Nothing is written over
Every replaced file is copied first and the registry is saved before it is touched. Restore one, or restore all of them.
Discovery
Know what you actually have
Identifies your build by SHA-256, reads the PE header, lists stray DLLs, and says whether the folder is writable.
Launch
Two ways in
Start the game directly, or hand it to the Steam client so playtime and overlay still work.
03 · Borderless
A mode it never had
The Amazing Spider-Man offers fullscreen and windowed. That is the whole list.
Pick Borderless and the tool sets the game to windowed, waits for its window to appear, then takes the frame off and snaps it to the monitor it opened on. Alt tab stays instant. The picture fills the screen.
04 · The small print that matters
What it will not do
- Go online. There is no networking code in it. Not switched off, absent, and a test in the repo fails if any ever appears.
- Ask for administrator. It runs as you. If a file needs rights you do not have, it says so instead of demanding them.
- Delete anything. The file layer it uses has no delete in it.
- Scatter itself. Settings, logs and backups all sit in the tool's own folder. Move the folder and you have moved everything.
05 · Questions
FAQ
Do I need the game already?
Yes. The tool configures and repairs an install you own. It does not contain the game and will not fetch it.
Why did Steam's Play button stop working?
Play starts the stock launcher, and the launcher cannot run once the fix is in place. The two need the same folder and cannot both have it.
The Patches tab gives you a launch options line. Paste it into Steam under Properties, Launch options, and Play goes to the game instead.
"<path to Game.exe>" %command%
Will it touch my saves?
No. It writes the game's settings keys and files inside the install folder. Save data is left where it is.
What is the 4 GB patch?
The game is a 32 bit program built with the large address flag off, so Windows caps it at 2 GB. The patch flips two bytes in the header and the cap becomes 4 GB. The original file goes to Backups first, and you can switch it back off from the same button.
Does borderless work on a second monitor?
Yes. It uses whichever monitor the game opened on, so drag the game where you want it and it follows.
Do I have to leave the tool open?
For borderless, yes, and only for the first few seconds. It waits for the game's window, reshapes it, then stops. Everything else is written before the game starts and needs nothing running.
Can I undo all of it?
Yes. The Backups tab lists every copy it has taken, with the date, and restores them one at a time or all at once. That covers the patched executable, replaced files and the registry.
It cannot find my install.
Use Change folder in the left rail and point it at the folder holding Game.exe. It reads your Steam libraries first, including drives other than C, but a moved or manually copied install needs telling.