Control: System requirements Control guide, walkthrough
Last update: 08 February 2021
Another page of the Control game guide includes a description of the system requirements needed to play the game on a PC. We also inform about the PS4 requirements and performance.
Control - PC minimum system requirements
- Operating system: Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64-bit version)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350
- RAM: 8 GB RAM
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
- Disk space: 42 GB
- DirectX: version 11
Control - PC recommended system requirements
- Operating system: Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64-bit version)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-7600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
- RAM: 16 GB RAM
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or 1660 / AMD Radeon RX 580
- Disk space: 42 GB
- DirectX: version 11 and 12
Control PC - additional information
The PC version of Control offers the following options:
- 21:9 resolution support
- Fully customizable controls
- Disabling frames limit
- G-Sync support
- Freesync support
- Raytracing support
Control PS4 - requirements and performance
- Disk space: around 34 GB
- PS+ subscription: not required, the game doesn't have any multiplayer modes
- PS4 Pro support: available, the game runs better on PlayStation 4 Pro
At its release, Control wasn't running well on the majority of the consoles (the only exception being Xbox One X). At the time of updating this guide, the 1.10 version offered much better performance. However, not everything was fixed.
The main issue is that the game drops frames during large-scale battles, especially when you start destroying elements of the environment and using powers. Interestingly, this doesn't affect the gameplay - the game simply moves slower which gives you more time to react. These slowdowns shouldn't also make the game freeze.
Another popular technical bug makes the environment textures more blurry, e.g. paintings like the one shown above. You can either ignore this or stop for a moment to let the game load higher resolution textures.