CONTROL - HDR+Ultrawide+DLSS+RT Patch

Would just like to congratulate Filippo and all those at Remedy on bringing the rights to Control back under Remedy's roof. Perhaps this can be official rather than a mod some day!

On 3/18/2024 at 10:48 AM, earthplayer said:

Xbox Game Pass version works flawlessly without issue. We don't need an update. Use the "no DRM" version in the OP and then start the Control_DX12.exe and everything should work fine. (simply create a shortcut for the DX12 executable for easy access) Don't start the game with your game pass shortcut as this will open the dx11 version without the modifications. Use the shortcut you created for the Control_DX12.exe instead! If the game doesn't start then you forgot to be logged in to your xbox app (it must be open / running in the background just like any other game pass game). You can see that it works by checking the settings. If "Max" is there as a setting for textures then the mod is working. 🙂

Unfortunatly it's seems like the achievements doesn't unlock in the Xbox PC App 😕

On 3/21/2024 at 9:02 PM, sauronemx338 said:

Unfortunatly it's seems like the achievements doesn't unlock in the Xbox PC App 😕

Didn't notice. You are right about that one. They gladly don't really add anything to Control though. (unlike some other games where the achievements have good jokes, give some more insight/knowledge about the world or are integrated even deeper into the game for lore or gameplay purposes)

AwE can bug out on the gamepass version while using this. I used a different save from someone on reddit who played everything except the DLCs which worked fine. I think this issue might not be exclusive to the gamepass version and can could happen in any version of the game if the "owns the DLC" flag is not set correctly for your save when using this mod. I still highly recommend this mod but just wanted to give a heads up that you might have to use a save from someone else after you finished the game to play the DLCs. (probably the same issue which screws up the achievements not working.

I used this save.

Look for this destination in your file explorer: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Remedy\Control\Default-Generic-User

The main save is savegame-slot-00 - the file names of the the save file above need to be changed to work with the gamepass version but this is really simple. If the filename ends with expedition you rename it to expedition.chunk - do this with all files and then drag them into the  savegame-slot-00 folder and overwrite everything. Start AwE by walking towards the elevator. Start Foundation by going to the huge door inside the quarry which used to be locked before. (you might have to visit the hotline to talk to the board first if the door is still closed)

Sadly cannot play with this mod.

On windows 11 using the steam version, everything at max 1440, besides a few RT options (the bottom 2 i believe). performance is pretty decent and I'm not using HDR. But the game often freezes, which would be fine on it's own. but it caused a total freeze for my pc 3 times now. This doesn't happen without the patch.

On 4/10/2024 at 9:47 AM, Harumu said:

Sadly cannot play with this mod.

On windows 11 using the steam version, everything at max 1440, besides a few RT options (the bottom 2 i believe). performance is pretty decent and I'm not using HDR. But the game often freezes, which would be fine on it's own. but it caused a total freeze for my pc 3 times now. This doesn't happen without the patch.

Are you running the game with any mods also, besides the HDR mod may I ask?

Hi everyone, I'm still having issues with loading textures (laptop ryzen 7 + rtz 4060), settings texture on max. Any help?

On 10/11/2024 at 7:46 AM, Zibbibbo said:

Hi everyone, I'm still having issues with loading textures (laptop ryzen 7 + rtz 4060), settings texture on max. Any help?

You GPU just like mine doesn't have enough VRAM for having 0 noticable texture load ins. But this mod makes the loading "more aggressive" in my experience which helps a lot with speeding it up and keeping textures loaded longer when you could possibly come back.

On 4/4/2024 at 10:29 AM, earthplayer said:

AwE can bug out on the gamepass version while using this. I used a different save from someone on reddit who played everything except the DLCs which worked fine. I think this issue might not be exclusive to the gamepass version and can could happen in any version of the game if the "owns the DLC" flag is not set correctly for your save when using this mod. I still highly recommend this mod but just wanted to give a heads up that you might have to use a save from someone else after you finished the game to play the DLCs. (probably the same issue which screws up the achievements not working.

I used this save.

Look for this destination in your file explorer: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Remedy\Control\Default-Generic-User

The main save is savegame-slot-00 - the file names of the the save file above need to be changed to work with the gamepass version but this is really simple. If the filename ends with expedition you rename it to expedition.chunk - do this with all files and then drag them into the  savegame-slot-00 folder and overwrite everything. Start AwE by walking towards the elevator. Start Foundation by going to the huge door inside the quarry which used to be locked before. (you might have to visit the hotline to talk to the board first if the door is still closed)

I recently (actually in spring this year) finished the game and the DLC and played the DLC without the mod cause I couldn't get them to work together on my copy of the game on steam. I am one of those who owned the game assumed that it was the complete edition based on the name, but found out that it was the version without the DLC, so I bought it on Humble Bundle, but for some reason the game would only allow me to load my save with the mod installed, after I had to remove the mod to be able to access the DLC initially.

Edited October 12 by luca_eziothedeadpoet

On 10/12/2024 at 9:15 AM, luca_eziothedeadpoet said:

You GPU just like mine doesn't have enough VRAM for having 0 noticable texture load ins. But this mod makes the loading "more aggressive" in my experience which helps a lot with speeding it up and keeping textures loaded longer when you could possibly come back.

Thanks for answering, to me it's quite unplayable since everytime i go around texture are always missing and i have to pause the game to often. This makes me drop the game, maybe should i accept the limit of my 4060 and play this game without this mod?

 

 

Hi I am back with hopefully some hopefully good news for everyone that owns the game on steam but can't access the DLCs after installing this mod.

Why hopefully ? Because my fix COULD be a fix that requires 2 steps, because I also tried the remove game from account and buy again on steam to get the complete edition fix, BUT it didn't work for me when I tried to play my old save with the mod enabled. With the mod enabled the behavior of the game was identical to how it behaved with my previous install before removing the game from my account and rebuying it via steam. I am still mentioning it here cause even tho I can't verify it it could be related to what fixed the issue for me. BUT if some others try this that didn't do the rebuy step then maybe we can crowdsource this part of the solution.

TL;DR for the main fix:
When installing the mod don't install pxfoundation_x64.dll. Or if you already replaced it verify the install with steam and then reinstall the mod without replacing this file.
I can't guarantee if this is a stable solution or if it will cause crashes when using the mod while playing the DLCs or if all the functions work fully. That is something only filoppi can answer or comment on. 

How did I figure this out ?
The game in the modded state only threw an error that my save can't be loaded because the foundation DLC is missing made it pretty clear that the mod or one file in it was breaking the verification for foundation but not the AWE DLC.  Now I started looking at all the DLLs if any of them could be related to the DLC verification and based on the name I assumed that pxfoundation_x64.dll is a DLL that is part of checking your DLC ownership. So after that I verified my steam files and reinstalled the mod but without using the mod provided pxfoundation_x64.dll and I could load my save with the mod active. 

@filoppi As stated earlier I am not sure if this is a reliable or rather stable fix, but if there is nothing your mod needs to touch on the code that makes up that DLL then it might be useful to add this notice to the Nexus Mods page for this mod and maybe a note here OR maybe uploading a version without that DLL. 
Also thanks again for your great work on this mod. I recently upgraded to a 4070Super from my 2080 Super and I wanted to try the very first game that made me fall in love with RT reflections again and the best way for that is to use your mod. And into the ashtray maze I went and it seems I came out of it with a solution.

On 11/11/2024 at 4:56 PM, luca_eziothedeadpoet said:

Hi I am back with hopefully some hopefully good news for everyone that owns the game on steam but can't access the DLCs after installing this mod.

Why hopefully ? Because my fix COULD be a fix that requires 2 steps, because I also tried the remove game from account and buy again on steam to get the complete edition fix, BUT it didn't work for me when I tried to play my old save with the mod enabled. With the mod enabled the behavior of the game was identical to how it behaved with my previous install before removing the game from my account and rebuying it via steam. I am still mentioning it here cause even tho I can't verify it it could be related to what fixed the issue for me. BUT if some others try this that didn't do the rebuy step then maybe we can crowdsource this part of the solution.

TL;DR for the main fix:
When installing the mod don't install pxfoundation_x64.dll. Or if you already replaced it verify the install with steam and then reinstall the mod without replacing this file.
I can't guarantee if this is a stable solution or if it will cause crashes when using the mod while playing the DLCs or if all the functions work fully. That is something only filoppi can answer or comment on. 

How did I figure this out ?
The game in the modded state only threw an error that my save can't be loaded because the foundation DLC is missing made it pretty clear that the mod or one file in it was breaking the verification for foundation but not the AWE DLC.  Now I started looking at all the DLLs if any of them could be related to the DLC verification and based on the name I assumed that pxfoundation_x64.dll is a DLL that is part of checking your DLC ownership. So after that I verified my steam files and reinstalled the mod but without using the mod provided pxfoundation_x64.dll and I could load my save with the mod active. 

@filoppi As stated earlier I am not sure if this is a reliable or rather stable fix, but if there is nothing your mod needs to touch on the code that makes up that DLL then it might be useful to add this notice to the Nexus Mods page for this mod and maybe a note here OR maybe uploading a version without that DLL. 
Also thanks again for your great work on this mod. I recently upgraded to a 4070Super from my 2080 Super and I wanted to try the very first game that made me fall in love with RT reflections again and the best way for that is to use your mod. And into the ashtray maze I went and it seems I came out of it with a solution.

Not working for me.  Was excited to give this a try as I'm wrestling with this issue right now.  But if things are working for you, my guess is something else addressed the DLC issue.  FWIW, I had the mod installed, I specifically deleted the pxfoundation_x64.dll to guarantee it would be reacquired during a verify.  Verified and then added the MOD files without the pxfoundation_x64.dll.  Same issue trying to load my save.

On 11/11/2024 at 9:56 PM, luca_eziothedeadpoet said:

The Hi I am back with hopefully some hopefully good news for everyone that owns the game on steam but can't access the DLCs after installing this mod.

Why hopefully ? Because my fix COULD be a fix that requires 2 steps, because I also tried the remove game from account and buy again on steam to get the complete edition fix, BUT it didn't work for me when I tried to play my old save with the mod enabled. With the mod enabled the behavior of the game was identical to how it behaved with my previous install before removing the game from my account and rebuying it via steam. I am still mentioning it here cause even tho I can't verify it it could be related to what fixed the issue for me. BUT if some others try this that didn't do the rebuy step then maybe we can crowdsource this part of the solution.

TL;DR for the main fix:
When installing the mod don't install pxfoundation_x64.dll. Or if you already replaced it verify the install with steam and then reinstall the mod without replacing this file.
I can't guarantee if this is a stable solution or if it will cause crashes when using the mod while playing the DLCs or if all the functions work fully. That is something only filoppi can answer or comment on. 

How did I figure this out ?
The game in the modded state only threw an error that my save can't be loaded because the foundation DLC is missing made it pretty clear that the mod or one file in it was breaking the verification for foundation but not the AWE DLC.  Now I started looking at all the DLLs if any of them could be related to the DLC verification and based on the name I assumed that pxfoundation_x64.dll is a DLL that is part of checking your DLC ownership. So after that I verified my steam files and reinstalled the mod but without using the mod provided pxfoundation_x64.dll and I could load my save with the mod active. 

@filoppi As stated earlier I am not sure if this is a reliable or rather stable fix, but if there is nothing your mod needs to touch on the code that makes up that DLL then it might be useful to add this notice to the Nexus Mods page for this mod and maybe a note here OR maybe uploading a version without that DLL. 
Also thanks again for your great work on this mod. I recently upgraded to a 4070Super from my 2080 Super and I wanted to try the very first game that made me fall in love with RT reflections again and the best way for that is to use your mod. And into the ashtray maze I went and it seems I came out of it with a solution.

Hey, I haven't tried the rebuy step for Control Ultimate Edition Steam and this fix sadly didn't work. Just thought I would make an account and post my experience to help the discussion. Looking through my steam purchase and product key activations (also checking my emails), it seems just like many here I got Control and the season pass both (purchased separately) through the humble store. Installing the Unofficial Comprehensive Patch 1.5.1 (steam) gives me the error message when trying to load my save file. And as mentioned, the above fix (not using the mods pxfoundation_x64.dll file) didn't work for me.

The most annoying thing for me is that control doesn't feature multiple save slots, as I'd just play with no dlc for the time being. But I can't lose my 100% completion file.

Edit - I should note that I tried this fix on a clean install of the game, then applied the mod using your fix afterward. The mod wasn't already installed before or anything like that.
 

The only thing I found to work was to own the actual Ultimate Edition, and not the base game + season pass.  Install sizes are different between the two.  So for me, the only thing that worked was removing the base game from my account and re-purchasing Ultimate Edition.  It was ~8 USD during a recent sale and likely around the same during the upcoming winter sale.