CONTROL Resonant Ray Tracing FPS Drop Fix
Framerate collapses after you change the Ray Tracing setting. The fix is one restart, and your chosen setting survives it.
Quick Answer
After you change the Ray Tracing quality setting, the game can drop to a noticeably lower framerate. This is an officially confirmed issue, and the official workaround is to restart the game.
Your setting is saved, so restarting does not undo the change — it applies it properly. There is no need to change the setting back.
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The Problem
Ray Tracing quality can be changed while the game is running, but the framerate can fall sharply after the change instead of settling at the level the new setting should give you. The game keeps running at that lower framerate until it is restarted.
Remedy’s known-issues list says: “Changing Ray Tracing quality in the Graphics settings can cause a significant FPS drop.” So this is a bug in how the setting is applied rather than a sign that the new Ray Tracing level is simply too heavy for your hardware. If the performance is far worse than the setting should cost, this is why.
Official Workaround
Officially stated workaround
Restart the game. That is Remedy’s own instruction — “Restart the game (your settings will be saved)” on the official known-issues list. The setting you chose is saved, so the restart applies it rather than discarding it.
What to Do, Step by Step
- Set Ray Tracing to the level you want in the graphics settings — or leave it where you already set it.
- Quit the game completely, back to the desktop or to Steam. Not just to the main menu: the workaround is the restart, not a reload of the level.
- Launch the game again and check the framerate in the same area as before.
- Confirm the setting is still what you chose. It should be — the setting is saved, so a restart that appears to reset it would be a different problem worth reporting.
Do not change the setting back
The tempting response to a framerate drop is to undo the change. Here that is the wrong move: the drop is caused by the setting being applied at runtime, and the restart is what fixes it. Changing the setting again just restarts the cycle.
Current Status
Confirmed issue, with an official workaround.
- The framerate drop after changing Ray Tracing quality is acknowledged by the developer.
- The restart instruction is official, and the setting is confirmed to be saved across it.
- This is a workaround rather than a fix: the underlying problem is how the setting is applied without a restart. The list says its issues are “planned to be addressed in the next game update”, so the restart should eventually stop being necessary.
Last checked September 25, 2026. If the official guidance changes, this page is corrected rather than added to.