Even with official versions, players have reported issues often addressed by official post-launch patches.
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Digital Foundry (in a community spotlight) noted: "If Sony had released this as an official 2.1 patch, we’d call it a remaster of a remaster. The clarity at distance is genuinely next-gen. Swinging from Avengers Tower to the Sanctum Sanctorum, there is zero texture degradation."
Users on r/OptimizedGaming report that the patch makes the game "look like the 2021 tech demo" that was originally shown running on unrealized RTX 4090 hardware. spiderman 21 4k patched
When users refer to "patching" in the context of modern PC gaming, they are often referring to the implementation of Super Sampling technologies. The official PC releases include built-in support for these, acting as a "performance patch" for 4K gaming.