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You can't blame the devs for AMD RT performance. AMD does not have the kind of RT acceleration hardware nVidia does, so it all has to be done in the shaders which also have a whole lot of other things to do. That means stuff will run slower. Now if it is a case where RT is just used a tiny bit, something like just doing ambient occlusion or the like, then it probably can run fine because it isn't doing a whole lot of calculations. However when it is something like Control where you are doing full reflections, shadows, at least some of the lighting, man that adds up and without the RT acceleration hardware it is going to run slower on AMD cards.
This. Gotta manage expectations for RT performance, especially on AMD. Upscaling is pretty much a must. Even NV cards struggle at high native resolutions and they're MUCH faster at RT than RDNA2.
When I last played Control, or rather my GF did, it was without this patch on a 4k TV on a 3090. 4k native was just a no-go in terms of maintaining good performance. DLSS quality at 4k though ran well. Even then, during some intense points (like the infamous hallway scene by the control room you see in all the reviews) it dropped below 60. It is just a heavy hitter with RT on.
As mentioned, even with a 3090, you have to balance some settings or use DLSS, for 4K.
Which is why I would recommend checking out the DLSS2FSR mod. That why they can use FSR2 to boost the frame rate up abit like GeForce users can with DLSS.
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Really, a 4090 struggles to maintain 60 FPS at 1440p?
Probably does if you enable the 3x ray tracing setting. The mod ads the ability to have it cast more rays per pixel, which is going to clean up the noise and make the image better, but at a huge cost.
Which setting is the 3X ray tracing?
It's a third party mod he linked above.
That's actually the dlc 'The Foundation' end boss. The end of the base game is pretty anti-climatic, like really that's it? ok then....
I think iirc it's just another checkbox at the bottom of the rest of the ray tracing options that was added with the patch, cant recall the actual setting name.
It would take reworking the art assets to really make them properly use the color range HDR has. Not only is that a big job, it is a different skill set from changing the code.
I think what he's talking about is that normally HDR games tend to pop a bit more in part because the designers may use more of that dynamic range, but also because of color. HDR is normally graded to DCI-P3 color space (sometimes more) whereas SDR is graded to Rec 709. DCI has notably deeper reds and greens than Rec 709 so you can see more saturated colors in those. In Control there are some reds in particular that would likely use those more saturated colors if it was designed from the ground up for HDR.
Apparently 505 Games owned the IP, and 505 has been hit by by cost cutting measures from parent company Digital Bros. Remedy took advantage and got back control of the IP for €17 million recently.
Afaik the regular edition was only sold on epic and the ultimate edition is a separate purchase that was launched when they went to steam and GoG. Basically if you own the standard edition with a season pass then you are out of luck as the ultimate edition is treated as a completely separate game. Basically Remedy's way of thanking people for buying the game at launch.
Did I need to add /s for it to be obvious?