Allgemeines » Control's recommended PC requirements

Summer is a slow time for games, so we can’t help but keep an eagle-eye watch on everything that’s coming out. One of the most exciting games that will hit PCs this summer is Remedy’s Control. And when it hits it’s going to land like a ton of bricks, according to the recommended requirements listed on the Control’s Epic Games Store page.

This is nothing new; Remedy games tend to be tough on computers. Alan Wake still pushed computers years after it was out, and Quantum Break was a heavy one, too, thanks to all its weird time-travel geometry. Remedy has been a part of Nvidia’s RTX promotional plan since the beginning, so it’s unsurprising that Control will act as somewhat of a showpiece for cards. If you’re in the market for a new RTX card, Control is one of the two games that will bundled with the purchase of any new RTX cards right now (the other is Wolfenstein: Youngblood).

Control has one other requirement: an Epic Games Store account. Remedy is no stranger to exclusives, having put its last two games exclusively on Microsoft’s consoles before eventually bringing them to Windows. Like those, this is a timed exclusive. The game will eventually appear on other digital marketplaces. If you’re looking to pre-order, though, that Epic Games Store account is indeed a system requirement. Control also sports 21:9 widescreen support, an upcapped framerate, and support for both G-Sync and Freesync technologies.

I mean of course, if you want to see a cutting edge game at its best, you’ll want the cutting edge of rigs. Hell, I’d say we’re probably all better off waiting for RTX 3000-series cards for raytracing to properly hit its stride, especially considering this appears to be the first game to make genuine use of it for more than what screen-space-reflections could already achieve before.

Well going by the last several posts, you might want to use full names since I doubt Renee’s going to adopt either a handle or a familiar presence any time soon and you may as well fit in with gyromancer and sweatshopking and morphine while you’re at it.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a “preference” but consistency does look neater. At the same time, I get the use of handles too since I’ve seen at least one guy complain over in the forum topic about not being able to recognise some of the contributors.