I was surprised to see Steam downloading a new 2.4 GB patch to Control Ultimate Edition today, while preparing to do more testing for our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. Control Ultimate, getting a patch nearly four years after its release — what's going on here? Looking for additional details and information, it turns out this is a relatively sizeable update, adding newer DLSS 3.7 support, ultra settings for both rasterization and ray tracing, and some other extras. (Sorry, AMD and Intel users: no official FSR or XeSS support still!)
The biggest change that jumped out at me was this line: "Added new Ultra ray tracing preset, which gets you more rays per pixel and higher temporal stability." Upon updating and launching, sure enough there are some new settings options. Before, Control topped out with a "High" preset for both the standard rendering as well as ray tracing. Now, there's an "Ultra" preset for each that upgrades several items.
