Control Resonant PC requirements demand 120GB of SSD space and upscaling at every setting

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Something to look forward to: Control Resonant, the long-awaited sequel to 2019's excellent Control, launches on September 24. That means Remedy Entertainment has announced the final PC system requirements. The good news is it's another game that can run on aging hardware – providing you don't mind playing at 1080p@30fps. The bad news, other than all the settings using upscaling, is that you need a massive 120GB of SSD space.

Remedy has split the PC requirements into two sections: with and without ray tracing/path tracing.

Remedy, to give it credit, has bucked the trend of companies being less than forthcoming about whether their PC requirements only apply when upscaling is used – they do.

That means being able to play the game with a GTX 1070 and a Core i5-8500 is possible, but hitting 1080p@30fps requires upscaling set to quality.

On the opposite end of the scale, enabling path tracing at 4K@60fps with High graphics settings requires not only an RTX 5080, but also upscaling set to performance. The CPU demand is fairly forgiving at this level: a Core i7-10700 or Ryzen 7 3700X.

In addition to requiring 16GB of RAM, another element that's universal across all categories is a hefty 120GB of SSD space. The use of a SSD rather than an HDD has become the standard for most big games these days, assuming you want the intended experience, though 120GB does put Control Resonant in the top half of the list when it comes to storage requirements. It's still a long way off God of War Ragnarök's 190GB, though.

Other features include an uncapped framerate and support for HDR, ultrawide aspect ratios, DLSS 4.5, and FSR 4.1 at launch.

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Control Resonant is one of our most Anticipated PC Games of 2026. It certainly appears to be quite a departure from the original, gameplay-wise, moving away from that third-person shooter emphasis and leaning more into action-RPG territory, prioritizing melee combat and player-driven progression. That might not be to everyone's taste, but most of the early previews have been positive.

You can pre-purchase Control Resonant now ahead of its September 24 release from Steam and the Epic Games Store.

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Control Resonant PC requirements demand 120GB of SSD space and upscaling at every setting

 

[The Talking Tech]

Once their game falls behind sales expectations, they will release a massive patch and lower the hardware requirements significantly just like other publishers have done.

 

[winjer]

I don't think this game looks that good to demand such hardware requirements.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

People get way too upset about these usually completely inaccurate tables that someone with only a single workstation card guessed to make.

 

[Chris Rchr]

Unless you’re willing to forgo ray tracing, you can think of the RTX 5080 at 4K as a 1080p rendering card. What a disgrace that power-hungry technology is.

 

[passwordistaco]

What upscaling are they using on a GTX 1070?

 

[arrowflash]

I don't think this game looks that good to demand such hardware requirements.

This could be said for most games released during the last 5 or 6 years.

 

[hahahanoobs]

We want 16GB VRAM minimum on every dGPU, while 32GB RAM and 120GB SSD storage for one game is asking too much.

Make it make sense!

 

[Melkor Unlimited]

What upscaling are they using on a GTX 1070?

That is the question.


PS: FSR and Lossless scaling are available there.

 

[godrilla]

Once their game falls behind sales expectations, they will release a massive patch and lower the hardware requirements significantly just like other publishers have done.

Brute forcing the requirements in today's market is 2 fold worse for sales.
1) the niche market is stagnating due to pricing.
2) Unoptimized games that use a brute forced approach tend to fail compared to thier competition who are well optimized and don't rely on frame generation and upscaling eg Crimson Dessert ( >6 million since June), Resident Evil Requiem, BF6, and Kindom Come Deliverance 2.
Although Elder scrolls remastered is an outlier and fell off after the first week > 4 million copies sold. ( game still runs poorly even on the enthusiast level hardware)


Sad part is the original ran very well optimized, didn't require upscaling and looked great for it's time.

Original benchmarks tpu
Control Benchmark Test & RTX Performance Analysis - Performance & VRAM Usage | TechPowerUp https://share.google/jzKuDtslY9ANj2wjY

 

[godrilla]

What upscaling are they using on a GTX 1070?

FSR probably version 3.1. oof.

 

[The Talking Tech]

Brute forcing the requirements in today's market is 2 fold worse for sales.
1) the niche market is stagnating due to pricing.
2) Unoptimized games that use a brute forced approach tend to fail compared to thier competition who are well optimized and don't rely on frame generation and upscaling eg Crimson Dessert ( >6 million since June), Resident Evil Requiem, BF6, and Kindom Come Deliverance 2.
Although Elder scrolls remastered is an outlier and fell off after the first week > 4 million copies sold. ( game still runs poorly even on the enthusiast level hardware)


Sad part is the original ran very well optimized, didn't require upscaling and looked great for it's time.

Original benchmarks tpu
Control Benchmark Test & RTX Performance Analysis - Performance & VRAM Usage | TechPowerUp https://share.google/jzKuDtslY9ANj2wjYView attachment 90995View attachment 90996

Brute forcing is a lot different than properly optimizing their games for lower specs hardware, you can't denied the gaming industry has bloated their development with very poorly optimized tools and rushed released dates causing a tremendous waste in hardware resources...it's not a secret is a well known fact.

 

[Athlonite69]

Who in their right mind is pairing a RX9070 GPU with an R7 3700X CPU if you're running 1440p on an AM4 system your atleast pairing it with an R7 5800X3D CPU