Optimized Graphics Settings for CONTROL Resonant: Performance and Visual Quality Balance

Key Recommendations

Based on extensive testing, the following settings strike the best balance between performance and visual quality:

• Global Illumination: High (provides high-quality indirect lighting with minimal performance loss)
• Volumetric Lighting: Medium (optimizes performance while preserving atmospheric effects)
• Shadow Map Resolution: Ultra (critical for shadow quality, avoids noticeable visual degradation)
• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO): On (essential for depth and realism)
• Ray Tracing: High for Direct and Indirect Lighting (maintains visual fidelity with reduced GPU cost)
• DLSS Ray Reconstruction: Enabled on RTX GPUs (improves denoising quality without major performance hit)

Optimized Graphics Settings Profiles

Profile 1: Without Ray Tracing/Path Tracing

Performance Results (1080p, DLAA): Average FPS increased from 33 to 63 (+91%), with 1% low FPS improving from 11 to 45 (+309%).

Profile 2: With Ray Tracing/Path Tracing

Performance Results (1080p, DLSS Super Resolution): Average FPS increased from 26 to 46 (+77%), with 1% low FPS improving from 21 to 34 (+62%).

Final Considerations

CONTROL Resonant’s demanding visuals are scalable on modern hardware, but Ultra settings (especially for ray tracing) are too costly for most systems. The optimized profiles retain 80-90% of the visual quality of Max settings while nearly doubling performance in both rasterized and ray-traced configurations. RTX users should prioritize DLSS Ray Reconstruction for denoising, while non-RTX hardware benefits from Medium denoising and High Transparency. Remedy’s engine scales well, but frame pacing issues with DLSS Frame Generation may require future patches.