Hold onto your RTX playing cards, Control’s PC necessities are heavier than its creepy fridge

When Nvidia introduced they had been extending their Control / Wolfenstein: YoungBlood game bundle to all new RTX card purchases, I made an informed guess-timate that Remedy’s upcoming spooky, telekinesis shooter Control would in all probability require a heftier dose of ray tracing magic than its Nazi-infested stablemate. Shock horror, I used to be proper, as Remedy have lastly revealed their minimum and recommended PC requirements for Control, and hoo boy, it ain’t fairly.

Admittedly, Remedy’s games have all the time been on the taxing aspect of PC necessities. I bear in mind foolishly considering I’d be capable of run Alan Wake on my PC at work to play over lunch one time, and all I obtained was a juddering mess of frames that had been in all probability chugging alongside someplace within the mid teenagers. And that was when the game had already been out for a number of years, too.

Control actually doesn’t seem like it’s going to be breaking that pattern, both, as even its minimal PC necessities are riddled with fairly fashionable parts (see under). Of course, it’s no shock that the RTX 2060 is the ‘minimum’ requirement for the game’s ray tracing help, because it’s nonetheless the entry-level ray tracing card within the Nvidia RTX household.

Minimum PC necessities:
OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 / AMD Ryzen 3 1300X or higher
RAM: 8GB
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580 or higher
Ray tracing GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
DirectX: DirectX 11

It’s the advisable Control PC necessities I’m extra shocked / involved by, as that not solely states you ideally want a GTX 1080 Ti (which in fashionable RTX parlance equates to an RTX 2070 / RTX 2070 Super) or Radeon 7 to run the game easily, however that you just’re actually going to wish an RTX 2080 – a 600 quid graphics card – to get these fairly reflections, shadows and ambient lighting.

Recommended PC necessities:
OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
CPU: Intel Core i5-8600Ok / AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or higher
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti / AMD Radeon 7 or higher
Ray tracing GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080
DirectX: DirectX 11 / 12

That’s much more demanding than Metro Exodus’ recommended PC requirements, which till now has been the heaviest ray tracing game you may play at present, and that solely acknowledged you wanted an RTX 2060 for its ray tracing goodness. Admittedly, Remedy haven’t truly acknowledged what decision or body fee they’re focusing on with these necessities, so there could also be hope but that lower-end RTX playing cards will nonetheless be capable of run the game with out juddering to an almighty halt each 5 seconds, however I’m not so positive that can truly find yourself being the case.

Is it actually going to be value it, I hear you cry? Well, I’ve but to see the game in movement myself, however among the RTX screenshots I’ve had a gander at positive do look very fairly certainly. As you may see from a few of them under, it’s shocking how way more you may see with ray tracing switched on, notably when peering into different rooms from behind these murky panes of glass.

 
However, there are additionally some instances the place the game’s ray tracing seems decidedly much less spectacular, reminiscent of a few additional reflections in some puddles on the ground, and a whole lot of additional shadows in a glorified submitting cupboard, as you may see under. In these situations, I may take it or go away it, this previous ray tracing gubbins, though hopefully the game can have first rate graphics choices that allow you to flip it on and off at will quite than having to restart the game each time you modify one thing.

 
Naturally, I’ll be doing a giant graphics card check on the game nearer to launch on the finish of August to see what at present’s best graphics cards can actually make of Control, however in case you’ve been considering a brand new graphics card improve not too long ago with a view to profit from Nvidia’s aforementioned game bundle promotion, you would possibly wish to think about saving up for a teensy bit longer if you wish to play Control with the shiniest graphics.