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PC Control Requirements and What Ray Tracing Will Look Like

Nvidia wants everyone to know that real-time ray tracing isn't just for people with the most expensive graphics cards or developers with the backing of big-budget publishers. The company today revealed updated PC requirements for Control, the upcoming action-adventure title developed by Remedy Entertainment coming out August 27.
Control will debut on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Remedy said on its website that the game "will challenge you to master a combination of supernatural abilities, modifiable loadouts and reactive environments" after a secret government agency in New York is invaded by " an otherworldly threat. " We wouldn't be surprised if that meant the game relied on a lot of atmospheric horror - which is where ray-tracing can shine.

A quick refresher: ray tracing is a rendering technique capable of generating increasingly photorealistic graphics with better lighting and shadows than other rendering techniques. It requires a lot of performance, though, and most ray tracing was pre-rendered using powerful systems. Nvidia introduced real-time ray tracing with its RTX graphics cards to make it more accessible to game developers and ideally enable better in-game graphics from there.
Nvidia is currently bundling Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood with qualifying RTX graphics cards via the Super Fast Supernatural Bundle; Details about the promotion can be found on Nvidia's website.

Control Recommended Specs
Note that Remedy doesn't expect people to buy the most expensive RTX graphics cards to enjoy Control - an RTX 2060 will be enough to enable ray tracing. More details about the title's required and recommended specs are below.

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by Nathaniel Mott