Treatment’s SCP-adjacent horror recreation Management stays among the best video games to point out off your fancy new graphics card. It might be nearly 4 years outdated, but it surely’s nonetheless a strong showcase for ray tracing with its workplace setting’s shiny flooring, destructible furnishings, and distinction between darkish and lightweight. It does have a couple of graphical points, nevertheless, like textures loading in late and, for those who allow Home windows auto HDR, darkish grays the place there must be true blacks and areas the place bloom reduces the element.
As Digital Foundry (opens in new tab) identified in a latest video, these issues have been solved because of a mod by one among Treatment’s personal builders. Filippo Tarpini, a senior Unreal Engine developer, joined Treatment six months after Management launched, however has been tinkering with it on the facet—first releasing a decision and facet ratio unlocker, and now together with that in an HDR ultrawide DLSS RT patch (opens in new tab) that significanly enhances Management’s look.
The Digital Foundry video highlights the enhancements native HDR implementation brings over Home windows’ computerized implementation, and has truthfully carried out extra to promote me on HDR as an idea than the rest I’ve seen. Shiny scenes look much less washed-out, darkish scenes are correctly darkish, and the high-contrast colours aren’t as more likely to burn themselves into your retinas.
Tarpini’s patch does extra than simply add native HDR, additionally including a number of rays per pixel in ray tracing and rising the decision of volumetric results, bettering texture streaming so textual content is extra readable at a distance and situations of noticeable pop-in are diminished, fixing the way in which movie grain shows with DLSS on, including a menu choice for UI saturation, and likewise including assist for DLAA—Nvidia’s deep studying anti-aliasing tech first seen in The Elder Scrolls On-line.
DLAA appears fairly good right here, decreasing some ghosting and usually wanting higher than TAA. It is not a efficiency hit both, which is sweet information, as a result of HDR certain is. You are solely going to need to allow that for those who do not thoughts a framerate discount of between 30 and 40%. That is undoubtedly a showcase for a high-end rig, which is true of something with ray tracing actually—a characteristic I solely ever allow if I can afford to drop 20 fps or so.
Tarpini has continued engaged on the patch (opens in new tab), which is presently as much as model 1.4 because of an replace in late April. The Digital Foundry video notes that, with the patch and all the things set to extremely, a few of the puddles cease displaying these fancy ray traced reflections. It is nonetheless a web plus, although, and clearly a labor of affection.
Treatment is presently creating Alan Wake 2, however does plan to return to Management. It is signed a deal to co-develop Management 2 with writer 505 Video games.