CONTROL Resonant AMD Radeon Performance Issues
Radeon 7000 and 9000 series cards can underperform in this game. The developer has confirmed it, and a driver update is in preparation.
Quick Answer
The developer has officially confirmed that AMD Radeon 7000 and 9000 series GPUs can have performance issues in CONTROL Resonant, and that AMD is preparing a driver update.
That means the problem is known and is not your card being broken or your settings being wrong. There is no fix you can install yet — no driver version or release date has been published, and this page will not guess at one.
On This Page
Which GPUs Are Affected
The affected family, as confirmed officially, is AMD Radeon 7000 series and 9000 series graphics cards. Remedy’s known-issues list says simply: “AMD Radeon 7000 and 9000 series GPUs: Performance issues can occur.” If you are on one of those and the game is not performing the way your hardware suggests it should, you are in the group this issue describes.
The confirmation does not break the problem down by individual model, and we are not going to invent a list of specific cards that are fine and specific cards that are not. It is stated at the family level, so that is the level this page uses.
This is a known issue, not a hardware fault
A confirmed driver-side performance problem is worth knowing about for its own sake: it means the usual round of lowering settings, reinstalling drivers and checking cables is not where the answer is. The fix is coming from AMD's side.
Current Official Status
- Confirmed by the developer: yes — performance issues on AMD Radeon 7000 and 9000 series GPUs.
- A fix in progress: yes — “AMD is working on a driver update that is currently expected to become available soon.”
- Driver version: not published.
- Release date for the driver: not published.
- How you get it: on AMD’s side — “The driver will be an optional download from AMD’s website.” It is not something the game pushes to you.
- Whether the driver fixes every case: not stated.
The last three lines are the honest gaps on this page. Anyone telling you the specific driver version or the day it lands is either quoting something newer than this page or guessing.
What You Can Do Now
While the driver is in preparation, the options are limited, and that is the point of writing them down plainly rather than padding them out:
- Lower the settings that cost the most. Ray Tracing is usually the heaviest. Reducing it will not remove a driver-side problem, but it can make the game playable in the meantime.
- Restart after changing a graphics setting. There is a separate, officially confirmed quirk where changing Ray Tracing quality causes a framerate drop until the game is restarted — see the Ray Tracing FPS drop page. Doing this removes one cause of bad performance that is not the AMD issue.
- Stay on your current driver. There is no driver claimed to fix this yet, so there is nothing to update to. The fix will be an optional download from AMD’s website when it lands — install it then, not before.
- Do not spend an evening reinstalling Windows. The problem is confirmed and has a known cause on the driver side. It is not something on your machine to hunt down.
What Happens Next
When the driver arrives, this page changes: the status list above gets the version and the date, and the advice on it is rewritten around whether the update actually resolves the issue for people on these cards.
Until then this page stays as it is. It is dated, and it says what is unknown as clearly as what is known — which is more useful to someone searching at 2am than a page that fills the gaps with a version number it made up.