Thank the creepy fridge gods, Control’s PC necessities at the moment are a lot lighter

Good information for anybody hoping to play Remedy’s upcoming telekinetic shooter Control in simply a few weeks time, because the game’s official PC necessities at the moment are so much lighter than they have been a month ago – and sure, I’m conscious that is pretty previous information by now, however truthfully, I’ve been caught in a locked room staring on the Bureau’s supernatural refrigerator for the previous two weeks and I’ve solely simply been relieved of mentioned fridge watching responsibility. Here they’re in full:

Unveiled over on Control’s website initially of August, your PC ought to now stand a significantly better likelihood of working Control than it did earlier than – particularly now you solely want both an Nvidia GTX 1060, GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 580 sitting inside your PC as an alternative of a GTX 1080 Ti or Radeon 7. In reality, because the eagle-eyed amongst it’s possible you’ll keep in mind, Control’s new ‘recommended’ necessities are successfully a really related set of specs to its earlier ‘minimum’ necessities, albeit with a minor bump to its pair of processors.

The minimal PC necessities, in the meantime, are even friendlier for aged PCs, notably for those who haven’t upgraded your system within the final 5-6 years. Once once more, although, Remedy fail to say precisely what sort of efficiency you possibly can anticipate to see from both of those spec necessities, so these hoping for a easy 60fps at 1920×1080 should still discover it a bit exhausting going in case your PC solely nearly meets the minimal set of necessities versus the really helpful spec.

Minimum PC necessities:
OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350
RAM: 8GB
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
DirectX: DirectX 11

Recommended PC necessities:
OS: Windows 10 (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

Remedy have additionally revised their really helpful graphics card for these hoping to get a little bit of ray tracing motion going as nicely, as you now solely want an RTX 2060 as an alternative of the ludicrously costly RTX 2080 to make the most of the game’s fancy pants shadows, reflections and ambient lighting strategies.

This brings Control in keeping with Metro Exodus’ really helpful PC necessities, which till now has been probably the most demanding ray tracing game you possibly can play right this moment. Again, it’s not clear precisely what sort of speeds you’ll get with the RTX 2060 – though I’ll completely be discovering that out as quickly as I can nearer to launch – however right here’s hoping its RTX results received’t drop an excessive amount of of a fridge-sized pressure in your previous body charge.

Personally, I’m fairly wanting ahead to taking part in Control with ray tracing switched on. While a few of its RTX results are nonetheless fairly refined, its reflections and ambient lighting certain do look very fairly and atmospheric when seen in side-by-side screenshot comparisons (as you possibly can see under).

 
Naturally, I’ll be doing one in every of my regular jumbo graphics card efficiency exams nearer to the game’s launch on August 27 to see what right this moment’s best graphics cards can actually make of Control, however no less than now you possibly can put away your pockets in the meanwhile and save these hasty improve plans you may need been desirous about for an additional day. Phew!