Control Resonant - Technical Issues & Bugs Megathread

[u/Ownsin]

Please use this megathread to report any bugs or technical issues you are experiencing with the game. Please describe the bug in the comments below, and include a picture if it helps illustrate the problem.

[u/Viva-La-Baz]

Some Large Resource Crates and Ability Barrier UI icons stay on the map despite collecting and clearing them

[u/mobyphobic → u/Viva-La-Baz]

Just like AW2 map icons not disappearing at launch

[u/Richard_Gripper28 → u/mobyphobic]

they never fully fixed it as far as I know. I played it a few months back and it still happens. 

[u/Accomplished-Lack721 → u/Richard_Gripper28]

That drove me bonkers in AW2. I kept trying to figure out what I missed

[u/Reocyx → u/Viva-La-Baz]

Ah that's what's going on. Thank you. It's so hard to tell if I've gotten one or not when this happens

[u/UndefinedWays → u/Viva-La-Baz]

Hopefully it gets fixed, my mind won’t let me rest till it’s gone 😂

[u/braidsfox]

Sometimes when I’m picking up a document, and open the start menu to read it, it will not have the red triangle next to it.

Makes it difficult determining what is a new document versus one you’ve already read if you happen to miss the name when picking it up .

[u/JuliusRMD → u/braidsfox]

This is an issue we're aware of. It should get fixed in the next game update.

[u/Pepy550 → u/JuliusRMD]

Shouldn't it also open the document directly? I think it just opens up the list and you still have to find it yourself.

[u/JuliusRMD → u/Pepy550]

It should, yes. That's what the fix in the next game update will ensure.

[u/gettotheback → u/braidsfox]

that and the fact that it no longer brings up the document. you have to select the document to bring it up.

+ instant photos, I've only been able to see 1 in the archives. Can't seem to find the rest of the photos

[u/edrec → u/gettotheback]

The photos are in the inventory, under key items.

[u/Illustrious_Rich_868 → u/braidsfox]

My god THIS. It should be long press to take you and open the doc automatically like every other game in the history of games

[u/turtlecrows]

i'm experiencing crackling audio? not sure if it's a speaker or game or system thing. feel a but insane.

[u/ShaneRus02 → u/turtlecrows]

Its pretty bad for me. Music is constantly cutting out, and combat encounters are terrible with the enemies audio being in and out too

[u/Slipperytangle → u/turtlecrows]

Yep, same here (PC). Audio is stuttering constantly, and lags by seconds during every one of Dylan's cutscenes so far, and I've just gotten out of the Oldest House.

And I was stuck in the elevator to the lobby for nearly a minute with zero audio until the doors finally opened.

UPDATE: moved my install to a new SSD... sadly, no difference for me. Same audio stuttering and video lockup right off the bat.

[u/RodsBorges → u/Slipperytangle]

thank god it's not just me. Fiddled with settings so much trying to fix it

edit: Updating NVIDIA drivers and turning on night mode on audio menu fixed it for me! Running silky smooth now

edit 2: oops spoke a tad bit soon. Still getting background audio cuts in some places and weird desyncing. Gdi

[u/West-Application-375 → u/Slipperytangle]

Same down to the elevator! Also on PC

I find it unplayable as the cutscene when we leave the oldest house is completely impossible to follow and understand with the audio issues.

Moving the game to the SSD to see if that helps :/

[u/pardyball → u/West-Application-375]

Obviously, YMMV with what you use, but mine is on my SSD and I'm having audio issues, too.

[u/Zenzirouj → u/Slipperytangle]

Exact same for me, I can't stand playing because the audio problems are so bad.

Also exact same thing in the elevator. If the game hadn't been running so terribly leading up to that point I would have given up and reloaded, but since it had been so bad so far I assumed (correctly) that it was just taking forever.

[u/ashriekfromspace → u/Slipperytangle]

Kinda baffling we get same bugs as in AW2

[u/Top-Appointment6461 → u/Slipperytangle]

I fixed the elevator issue by running right up against the edge of the door to scratch the audio. Even so, the game runs perfectly fine, but the audio keeps glitching out all the time. We’re definitely not the only ones either; there are a lot of complaints about the same issue on Steam.

[u/Kalpazen → u/Slipperytangle]

This is a huge immersion breaking bug imo. Thought it'd be fixed with the day one patch

[u/benh79985 → u/turtlecrows]

Yeah audio is constantly cutting out on PC, both in and out of cutscenes.

[u/subdivisions-rush → u/turtlecrows]

I've got that too, not consistently, normally after a scene involving cutscenes

[u/Mindless_Tie5140 → u/turtlecrows]

yeah, same, i'm probably gonna leave the game alone until its fixed, it makes the game unplayable, mine starts from the begining of the game, from the intro cut scene, all I see is objects being loaded into the game during the cutscenes as well. Audio is cutting in and out during and out of cut scenes, during the gameplay it starts freezes and than starts again.

[u/ASharpEgret → u/Mindless_Tie5140]

Exact same bugs for me, and I was also stuck in the elevator a while.

[u/asharkmadeofsalsa → u/turtlecrows]

same here and I had the same thing with Alan Wake 2 :/

[u/MeasurementFun9747 → u/turtlecrows]

Same.

[u/FrozenDuckNipple → u/turtlecrows]

Same here (PC). Changing buffer size DAW didn’t help :( I’m not a tech person, so have no clue what to do with it

[u/Dezember_Assassino → u/turtlecrows]

Same here. Playing on PC. Cut scene sound is SUPER delayed. Gameplay sounds are crackling and sometimes cut out. Elevator out of the oldest house just got dead silence and didn't move. I was running around for a solid 3 minutes before the sound came back and the door opened.

[u/Cold_Fun5024]

Experiencing crackling audio, cutting in and out. Also dialog lags behind in cutscenes, on PC

[u/Adno → u/Cold_Fun5024]

Same. Consistently cuts out at the same spot during the opening cutscene and then is delayed when it comes back in. PC: ryzen 9 7950x3d, radeon rx 9070xt

[u/Lower-Chard-3005 → u/Cold_Fun5024]

Same here

[u/Lower-Chard-3005 → u/Lower-Chard-3005]

Just gonna wait for an update atp

[u/shredfan]

I'm having major sound stuttering and sound desyncing with cutscenes. It is near constant and unplayable, I'll probably have to stop until a patch drops.

[u/Umami_police → u/shredfan]

This is probably the biggest issue with this game so far for me. Its interesting because I didn't hear this mentioned in ANY of the reviews I watched, so it has to be some kind of bug that was introduced with the Day 1 Patch.

[u/koincexx → u/Umami_police]

I remember this bug also happening with Alan Wake 2.
I would be in a loading screen cutscene with the car driving down the road, and it'd be horrendously desynced. The gameplay bits ran fine, but every couple of cutscenes would have audio hitching issues.
I think it's genuinely a problem with the Northlight Engine itself.

[u/Zenzirouj → u/shredfan]

Yep, same here. No difference on HDD or SSD, either.

[u/clydethepotatortoise]

Zoe asked me to look out for her friend Matthew at the Field Office. Every time I walked in and out of the room Matthew was in, Dylan and Zoe kept repeating the conversation about Dylan finding him. I actually got to try out all of Dylan's conversation options because of it.

[u/JuliusRMD → u/clydethepotatortoise]

This is an issue we're aware of. It should get fixed in the next game update.

[u/ItGetsTuahPoint67]

PC - if my controller disconnects while playing the game, reconnecting it won't cause the game to recognise it. Need to restart the entire game for it to work again

[u/JuliusRMD → u/ItGetsTuahPoint67]

This is an issue we're aware of. It should get fixed in the next game update.

[u/GasMaskExiitium → u/JuliusRMD]

Are you aware of the game breaking audio bugs? This game is fantastic and I very rarely buy games on launch. I upgraded to a 5070 just to play this haha. Really sucks I can’t :/

[u/Teddybearfish]

PC - 9700k, 32gb ram, 2080
After about 10 mins the performance degrades rapidly. It has the same symptoms as a game being throttles due to a cpu at 100%. Frame stutter and audio crackling. Restarting the game doesn't fix the problem but a reset does.

No other game in my library does this other than Diablo 3. 40 hours of STALKER2 over a week and not a single thing wrong. boot this up and it is unplayable.

[u/Ok_Web2144 → u/Teddybearfish]

I have the exact same issue running the game with 4090 and 14700k. I will have 140fps for the first 10 minutes and then in the exact same area performance will regress to 80fps ( both with FG on) . It makes no sense. Only thing I can see is the gpu power draw and usage dropping significantly when it happens. CPU is a non issue here as i am gpu bound 100% of the time and cpu usage always sits around 10-12%

[u/XPilo]

I'm having some crazy audio synchronization issues during dialogue, along with audio stuttering and cutouts during gameplay and cutscenes.

[u/R0S3T0W3R]

Audio (mostly music) glitching and delaying on my Xbox Series X.

Changing forma Quality to Performance seemed to hace fixed this issue

[u/Adziboy]

Controller speaker at zero doesn’t turn off controller speaker

[u/doggenwalker → u/Adziboy]

What sounds does the controller have coming out of it? I have to play with headphones on so I'm missing picking up on that audio.

[u/Delusional_Donut → u/doggenwalker]

it has the radio conversations with agent Zoe de Vera, very loudly lmao

[u/gawkyunicycle63]

Xbox Series X is constantly crashing

[u/Radgeta → u/gawkyunicycle63]

I have like 4 hours of play time and maybe thirty minutes of progress.

The game is basically unplayable for me. Play two minutes, crash. Reload a save, crash. Reload an earlier save play one minute, crash. Talk on the radio, crash. My last crash happened because I looked up into the sky.

[u/anal_fissure_fiesta → u/gawkyunicycle63]

yeap. cleaned my xbox's heat sink. reinstalled game. still crashes. either to dashboard or full shut down. Why did I pre-order? This is not next gen gaming

[u/TruMusic89 → u/anal_fissure_fiesta]

Yup. And the XBOX player base couldn't even get early access with their pre-order. The least we could've gotten was a functioning game. Control had issues when it first released, but it wasn't nearly this bad. I'm getting audio drops, really bad frame drops during gameplay and out of sync speech during cinematics.

[u/Flaccid_Pankcake → u/TruMusic89]

And I'm not even seeing anything relating to crashes on their "known issues" list so it seems like they don't even want to acknowledge that there's a problem, might be looking at a long time before / if this gets fixed

[u/gawkyunicycle63 → u/Flaccid_Pankcake]

This is the case for a lot of other games too. It seems that Xbox is the forgotten child when it comes to issues like this. Hopefully this is addressed soon, but if not we need to be more vocal about it.

[u/Flaccid_Pankcake → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Well I put in a report to their website in order to at least know that there's one report in their systems. I'd recommend doing the same, let's get some eyes on this issue

[u/TruMusic89 → u/Flaccid_Pankcake]

Yea, i've been mentally preparing to wait a few months for all of this to get ironed out. I was really looking forward to this game *sigh*.

[u/Stuktothewall → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Came here because of this.

[u/Raizzaa → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Same here, glad I'm not the only one

[u/Admiral-Henry → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Same here, multiple crashes. On average I can play for 5 minutes before a full system crash, it’s essentially unplayable for me on Series X. Really hope it’s addressed soon.

[u/KoushiroIzumi → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Likewise, gave up on it for the day because I got sick of losing progress

[u/Flaccid_Pankcake → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Really hope this is a game problem and not another "your thermal paste is bad" shenanigan, I am not getting a new console just to play one game when I can play every other game I have perfectly fine

[u/Tatsu660 → u/gawkyunicycle63]

I thought I was going nuts, it's kicking me to dashboard or straight turning off the Xbox, I first checked the dust, then the power source, now moving it from Expansion Card to Internal, but this is getting a little ridiculous.

[u/Straight_History2858 → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Oh thank god, I thought it was just me too! I just got my Xbox fixed too and was about to lose it

[u/heksesang → u/gawkyunicycle63]

My six year old XSX hasn't had any crash since I started the game. Odd how some crash all the time and some not - the software should be the same, so it must be a hardware issue I'd think. Maybe there is some hardware revision that has introduced an issue this game runs into? 

[u/thanatos881 → u/gawkyunicycle63]

Mine crashes occasionally when I try to fast travel. I got an GPU error when it first happened.

[u/real_roal]

Emily Pope has a red triangle above her interact button, but when I try to talk to her, she says something but then immediately ends the conversation. I think its completely bugged and I can't talk to her even after leaving the game.

[u/aSummerSarahndipity → u/real_roal]

Yeah same here for the Pope interactions.

[u/Odd-Bag9258 → u/real_roal]

Same here

[u/Calaloo17]

Base PS5

If you go to the wardrobe customization after the first boss and disconnect the dualsense controller. When you reconnect, Dylan will fall out the map and you’d have to reload a save.

[u/ShaneRus02]

https://reddit.com/link/pbulx1a/video/x5fi65sxcjrh1/player

This is the audio glitch that I've been dealing with. I know music and sound in general are a really big thing in Remedy games, so unfortunately I have to take a break until this is patched. I'd even go so far as to recommend waiting on buying this game. Super frustrating cause ive been looking forward to playing this all morning on top of the preload glitch that happened; it's just been all around frustrating.

[u/Surza → u/ShaneRus02]

my exact issue with the audio too! and gonna wait it out because it does this during cutscenes too and break immesion xD

[u/Zenzirouj → u/ShaneRus02]

Thanks for getting documentation of it, this is the exact behavior I'm getting on PC. I can't deal with playing with both this and the broken audio in cutscenes, so I'm just having to shelve it despite buying day 1.

I really hope they at least ACKNOWLEDGE it soon, if nothing else

[u/NotBoNZz → u/ShaneRus02]

im haveing the same thing

[u/Janostar213 → u/ShaneRus02]

EXACT SAME ISSUE. Didn't pop up for me until I got to the Field Office in Central

[u/ThePsyPaul_ → u/ShaneRus02]

I switched to NVIDIA studio drivers and this audio bug only happens 10% of the time for me right now.

[u/idempoydem21]

When can we expect a new patch with fixes? Experiencing severe stuttering and lag on the 5070. even at 1080p on low everything

[u/RoyalHumbug → u/idempoydem21]

really?! glad I'm not the only one here. hopefully they'll fix it soon

[u/MegaEstructure]

There's this bug with Pope. You approach her and she has the red marker on the interact botton, which I assume means you still have important dialogue with her, but then when you press it, this happens, she just turns around again but the marker doesn't go away. I kept trying and trying and it kept happening

https://reddit.com/link/pbtkrbw/video/0csmo89gkirh1/player

[u/puzzlebuns → u/MegaEstructure]

Having this exact issue on the steam version. I already exhausted all dialogue options with pope, but she still has the option to speak to her with the red marker. After introductions, the dialogue just ends.

[u/Radgeta]

On Xbox Series X I died in combat and the game is unable to reload my last save.

The game has crashed 4+ times back to xbox home so far.

[u/Infinite_Original_15]

When Zoe asks to find her college friend Matthews, and you find him, the dialog between the two of you continues repeating each time you walk by (insert location you found him here)

Also there was no quest marker for this? Maybe not an official side mission.

[u/JuliusRMD → u/Infinite_Original_15]

This is an issue we're aware of. It should get fixed in the next game update.

[u/Raizzaa]

I'm having crashing issues, game crashes every 10-15 minutes on my Series X

[u/Alec_de_Large]

Xbox Series X crashing frequently

[u/elitne]

Im getting same issue as every other preload download issue, however mine isnt downloading it all. Completely stuck at 0mb/s. Anyone having the same ?

[u/Adziboy → u/elitne]

Clear download cache in steam then once its restarted leave it for 5 mins and itll start

[u/ninja_tank25]

Playing on PC through Steam. Even on the opening cutscene, models are popping in and the audio is several seconds behind subtitles and what's on screen. I even turned the graphic settings down to "Handheld" and it's doing it. Maybe it's my computer or I have too many things running? I'm streaming to YouTube via OBS so that might not be helping. This also happened with Alan Wake 2 back when I tried it, but I thought it might be an Epic Games Store thing.
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor (3.40 Hz)
Installed RAM: 32 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

If you want to know what this looks like when I try to play: https://youtu.be/f80SzvKupXQ?is=vWOaA74xJxVD-zQZ

[u/SquigglesTheAzz_ → u/ninja_tank25]

I have a 5080 and AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. It is using 100% of my gpu even on the lowest settings and I can't record or stream because of that. I didn't realize it until 3 hours in and I have been all over the place trying to find a work around.

[u/Straight_History2858]

Anybody on Xbox constantly crashing??

[u/KoushiroIzumi → u/Straight_History2858]

quite a few of us

[u/Raizzaa → u/Straight_History2858]

Yeah every 10-15 min

[u/Smitty092385 → u/Straight_History2858]

Yup

[u/TheGaxinator]

PC - I'm having two issues:

One - Background sounds and music will randomly get muted for a few seconds. I think it has something to do with zones loading in and out? The gameplay does not freeze tho, it's only the audio dissapearing, which really kills the immerssion. Sounds like Dylan's dootsteps of the whoosh of weapons are still there tho.

Two - The game will randomly freeze for a few seconds. Sometimes it is during exploration, sometimes during fights, sometimes when I'm just looking at the map. It just seems to be totally random. I'm not sure if it might be some kind of memory leak issue, or what. I tried changing around the graphic settings, but the problem persists. And it's not like it is a frame drop, it literally freezes my entire PC. I will try to Alt+Tab away, but nothing happens until the game comes back to life.

Also, I have GTX 4060, Ryzen 7 5700X, and 32GB of RAM. I've been playing on the Medium preset, and, besides this one issue, the game is normally going at smooth 60 fps even during the most crazy fights.

[u/Orthien → u/TheGaxinator]

I'm having the same issues. They both happen when the game spikes in HD usage, jumping from 60% to 100. Doesn't seem to be any similarities in when this occurs or stops.

[u/Nix4656]

Series X here. Game is crashing roughly every 10-15 minutes. It just freezes up and kicks me to the Xbox dashboard. I’ve tried multiple fixes in my end to no avail and other games aren’t crashing so I don’t think it’s a “me” thing. Please fix asap…been anxiously waiting to play this game ever since I heard about it.

[u/DoctorDR5102]

It's really annoying you can't keep asking questions of NPCs and have to hold L1 to get back into dialogue after asking only one question.

[u/RodroG → u/DoctorDR5102]

Yes, it makes no sense, and it's annoying.

[u/AhhJenkins]

Latest update completly bricked my game on Xbox Series X. Save won't load and stays on loading screen stuck at about 90%.

[u/iamshipwreck]

No controller vibration/adaptive triggers despite settings. Dualsense on steam, wired/wireless, steam input on/off makes no difference.

[u/joojudeu → u/iamshipwreck]

You have to turn on the audio settings for the controller on windows, like giving permission or something(i use windows in portuguese) but having the audio selected for whatever you use

[u/TheStoon2]

For those facing issues on Xbox Series X with sound and cutscene glitching. Try putting both TV and Headset on stereo uncompressed (in the console settings) and fully power cycling your Xbox.

Also maybe you should try this first before power cycling. Go to game audio settings in the game and try using mono audio and setting the hyperacusis filter to low.

You can reset to default settings in game and in the xbox later after you see which settings fix your issue.

[u/awesomefuntimes → u/TheStoon2]

Just want to second this. Additionally, if anyone has this game on the external storage card, moving it to the main drive helped as well.

[u/Felsby1]

the audio keeps cutting in and out on me and have zero idea on why

[u/BlackFenrir]

Experiencing regular sound issues. Ambience stutter (but sfx will keep working), dialogue lagging behind, or music cutting out during combat. This didn't start happening until after the Artist bossfight.

On PC/Windows through Steam, 32 GB RAM, Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 4060TI with 8GB VRAM.

[u/Fearless_Coast5954]

Game is unplayable on Xbox series x for me. I’ve reinstalled twice and can’t handle the fight in the supply route. Barely made it that far. Maybe 3 crashes in an hour. Most of them turn my Xbox off when they happen. Praying for an update that lets me play the game I paid $70 for

[u/Fractured_Senada]

PC: CPU AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, RAM 128 GB, GPU AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, OS Winows 11

On entering a new game it takes a min to load (literally like 60 seconds), loads into a game screen reminiscent of falling through a map (I see a health bar), then what looks to be a geometric pattern pops up on the screen for a few seconds, then the first cut scene starts but the audio is not synced to the video so once it gets to a certain point I have been skipping the cut scene and exiting.

I've tried setting graphics to med (not that I should have to).

SOLUTION/FIX FOUND/DISCOVERED: THE GAME MUST BE INSTALLED ON AN SSD

[u/RunawayBacon]

PC - AMD Radeon 7800 XT. My game is repeatedly crashing. It's happened 3x now and I have not been able to progress beyond the first AWE file.

"The game crashed due to a graphics card (GPU) fault and will now exit. Your progress from the last checkpoint has been saved. Please restart the game to continue from the last checkpoint. If you're running into GPU crashes often, try the following: 1. Update your GPU driver to the newest available one. 2. Disable any over/underclocking applied to your GPU. 3. Close any programs that might be using GPU memory. If the problem persists, please report the issue through the game's support channel."

My GPU driver is up to date, and I'm not messing with the clocking. Nothing else is open.

EDIT: I run it borderless. I've deleted/reinstalled drivers. I've tried all the tips and tricks out there. Still crashing. Waiting for a new set of drivers from AMD. I'm very, very disappointed here - I've been waiting for a Control sequel for ages.

[u/ContemplateAndDebate → u/RunawayBacon]

EDIT: Issue resolved with a full clean uninstall and reinstall of graphics drivers, followed by a system reboot. Game's running positively now.

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Same with an Intel Arc A580, FWIW.

--Game loads initially OK. Ran through the CONTROL recap without issue, art book loaded OK
--Attempting New Game leads to menu going away, got the nice background fractal visual going on, then about 5-10sec in everything freezes and the error populates.
----Error reoccurs consistently at this exact spot
--Not seeing any kind of spikes in the Intel Graphics Software when it crashes out.
--Up to date drivers, no overclocking; Basic settings out-of-box
-- No other software open other than Steam

[u/Lauen → u/RunawayBacon]

same here but it kills my entire PC. I DDU'd and got fresh drivers, didn't help. Updated BIOS, didn't help. Windows 11 is also up to date, no over or underclock, it even crashes with no other programs running. Will have to check event logs when I get home from work.

EDIT: I'm running a Ryzen 2700, 16 gb of RAM (nowhere near running out of RAM when the game crashes though), RX7600, game is on an NVMe SSD, temps all okay.

[u/hezaboro → u/RunawayBacon]

Same here; PC - RTX 3090 24 gig. When I first got the crash, there were new drivers. So, I did a clean install. After, crashed almost every 3 minutes. Same error, despite GPU load being under 30%. It got so bad that I just refunded the game on Steam. No matter what I did, I could not prevent, mitigate, or track down the crash.

[u/sqd → u/RunawayBacon]

I'm almost 10 hours in, and while it did happen once yesterday, I ended up in this thread because it just happened three times in a row. No other game does this.

4090, latest drivers. 64gb RAM, 13900k etc.

[u/JuliusRMD → u/RunawayBacon]

Hey there! Apologies for the trouble. AMD is currently working on a driver update to address this issue and it should come out very soon.

[u/Tringi → u/RunawayBacon]

This was happening and sort of is still happening to me on GTX 1070. Unfortunately nVidia no longer maintains support for this cards in their latest drivers.

My trick was to revert from latest Game Ready (582.66) to stable Studio Driver (581.57) and after rebooting it will last for about 7 hours before crashing. If I start the game again it lasts 4 hours, then less than hour, and then will crash after 5 minutes. Rebooting the PC makes it 7 hours again.

That's enough for me. But some drivers, man.

[u/KeyReplacement520]

Performance tanks when leaving around old house

[u/Dust_Dependent]

I'm just gonna guess this game is pretty unoptimized on PC, even though i shouldn't be surprised. Im on a 6700xt and a Ryzen 5800xt and i've tried every setting possible and I just can't get a consistent 1080p60 no matter what I try. Even with frame generation it still drops when i get into fights.

[u/Small_Pie_5760 → u/Dust_Dependent]

Yeah same. The fights are okay in enclosed areas, but out in the city it just becomes a stutterfest on medium-to-high settings, RT off. I've been avoiding getting into fights in wide open areas

[u/BabyBatPlays]

I'm on series x and within the last hour it has crashed to the home screen three times and has completely shut off my console twice

[u/Jdarleo]

Game has crashed 4 times in about 2 hours of total playtime. One time even turned off my Xbox Series X. Any idea what this issue could be?

Edit: still crashing after the patch on the Series X. Does anyone know if remedy is working on this issue?

Xbox is in a well ventilated area and has no issues running other games like Gears E: Day.

[u/Electrical-Sample]

Post-Game, outift keeps resetting to dylans final story outfit when fast travelling (Close to oldest house/others).

Zoe watchtower, keeps referencing the lights at the dancer even when asked already.

[u/Sufficient-Ad4851]

Park Resonant quest bugged. I ate only 1 of the mold now it wont let me interact with the other 3.

[u/JuliusRMD → u/Sufficient-Ad4851]

We're aware of the issue and are currently investigating it. Apologies for the trouble!

[u/CordiallySuckMyBalls]

PS5 bug: Radio dialogue comes from both the tv and dualsense controller, creating an echo that’s rather annoying. There should be an option to have one or the other rather than just having to turn off controller sounds.

[u/jumalwelhu]

Xbox series x, once in the Manhattan game keeps crashing. Have had two hard crashes where the whole system crashes and reboots. In comparison fh6 works flawlessly on hours end without a hiccup.

[u/ConversationSoggy666 → u/jumalwelhu]

Same for me on Xbox Series X

[u/Umami_police]

Performance across the board seems pretty abysmal on PC. I'm getting numerous bugs with audio, texture loading, FPS drops, pop in, and more.

The most annoying one so far is definitely the audio issues. Cutscene/Audio sync is constantly bugging out and incorrect to the point where I'm just automatically skipping all cutscenes because the performance during them is so bad that I can't even enjoy watching them.

In the watchtower I encountered a bug where all audio stopped working completely before I was flooded with all the audio that should've been playing for the previous 90 seconds all playing at once. This audio bug also seems to infect normal gameplay, even the menu. Sometimes I'll pause, have no audio, and then hear all the menu tabbing sounds I had done in the last 4-5 seconds all happen like they're traveling through a time machine.

ETA: The fact that controller disconnecting on PC requires a total game client reset to reconnect and recognize is insanely frustrating and needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Game is installed on an SSD.

Windows 11, 4070Ti 16GB, i9 13900k, 32GB RAM

[u/ballsMcWhoppa]

(Series X) I can't get past the first cutscene as you enter Manhattan and Zoe calls you, it crashes either 30 seconds into the cutscene or right at the end.

[u/Small_Pie_5760]

Yeah, I'm just not getting good performance in the open world areas at all on the PC. Very stuttery, especially during combat sections which are supposed to be smooth for this type of game

[u/Flaccid_Pankcake]

Xbox series x, game ran fine in the beginning but the open world part seems to crash my game a lot. Please acknowledge and fix soon I've been waiting all year to play this game

[u/kavulord]

In the 'Proposed Enforcement' note, it says "Baltimore, MA" instead of "Baltimore, MD"

[u/West-Application-375]

Audio stuttering, cutting out, and lagging so badly on PC that it's actually unplayable.

I got stuck in the elevator leaving the Oldest House as well.

Can't even understand the cutscenes because of the audio issue. Visually it functions fine.

[u/Top-Significance-900]

Keeps crashing and sometimes even restarting my xbox series x. Done all the supposed fixes you can do.

[u/fari_]

In the epilogue, in the oldest house when using the elevator that goes either to the roof, Thomas street, or to Executive, cosmetics will change automatically to Dylan’s post endgame casual clothes.

https://reddit.com/link/pcdsw0d/video/v3dp3qw103sh1/player

Edit: on PS5

[u/Flaccid_Pankcake]

Keeping this topic alive, game is still crashing constantly on xbox series x. A good handful of others and I can't play without crashing on xbox, performance slugs down on PS5 from a couple people I have talked to, as well as abnormally high GPU usage from a user on PC that I have spoken with. Not to mention one other user and I have put in a bug report on their website and was told an agent would contact us within 24 hours, with no word from said agent after nearly 4 days

[u/AlexTheShyCat]

Can't eat the mold after the update, the prompt just doesn't appear, even though I'm standing right next to it. Haven't checked the other mold areas, but I'm at the Gym Mold specifically

[u/Flaccid_Pankcake]

Update 1.4.0 October 1st, 2026. Game is still crashing on xbox series x. Purchased this console new from the box at most 3 years ago because I was experiencing this issue with Starfield and assumed it was my day one xbox that was on its way to Valhalla. Since getting the new xbox, and after seeing rising prices, I have meticulously kept this console clean and well maintained. All of this is to establish that it is not my xbox that is at fault here, but a problem within the game itself. I will be playing my game normally and then at seemingly random (about 20 to 30 minutes in) I will experience a freeze in game while the audio is fine, and after a few seconds the game will either crash to dashboard or turn my xbox off completely, there is no consistency as to what it will do when it freezes. Unfortunately that's all the details I can provide

[u/shutupdane]

I had some pretty significant frame stuttering in the Dancer fight on PS5, particularly towards the end, which made dodging her big four-hit combo near impossible. Got through it, but it'd be cool for that to not happen again.

[u/Slipperytangle]

Serious audio stuttering/breakup and lag -- audio sometimes lags behind the video by seconds.

[u/Zenzirouj → u/Slipperytangle]

Same behavior here, on PC and installed on SSD. Unplayably bad audio stuttering and lag, especially in cutscenes.

[u/anal_fissure_fiesta]

Keeps crashing constantly on my xbox series x 1tb. Kicks me to dashboard. Had it preloaded, reinstalling it now.

[u/ArchDucky]

I'm experiencing a strange bug... Im still at work so I can't play it yet.

[u/MaxDDN]

Playing on an i712700K +RTX 5080. Game runs pretty fine but theres noticable constant framepacing/stuttering issues for me with or without DLSS/FrameGen/Raytracing etc. Ive tried every combo. Like the game rubberbands slightly every other second. Not enough to make it choppy but enough to make it feel off. Definitely apparent when you do a 360 spin with the camera. Anyone else getting this or found a fix?

[u/Raizzaa]

Not sure if its a big issue or not but my game crashes every 10-15 minutes on my Series X.

[u/IncrediLag]

Dr. Florez wont let me progress to carbon copy ii. i have beat the main quest and its one of my last side quests i need to complete. i start conversation with her and then she just stops talking and exits dialogue.

[u/Character-Purpose-51]

Is anyone experiencing continuous micro stutters when panning the camera in the open world

[u/Noodle--Monster]

Everytime I use the fast travel feature, my gpu (6800, 16gb VRAM) maxes out its VRAM and crashes. Regular game only uses 10gb of vram, but during fast travel it suddenly spikes.

[u/Alex_Albedo]

PS5 - NPC voice lines sometimes drop to extremely quiet. I've only seen this in the FBC lobby so far. At one point, Pope was almost silent, while the guy she was talking to wasn't. Stayed quiet when I talked to her. Then I reloaded the game and she was normal and the guy she was talking to was quiet.

[u/VenoElite]

Keeps crashing my Xbox series x giving me green screen then shuts my Xbox off

[u/sneakyhalfling]

Found a soft lock in Downtown Deserted Area. you can enter a building and the exits seal, but the enemies don't stop spawning.....because I think one of the big enemies on the roof is still in combat. This was enemy level 3, or however you say after killing 2 more resonants after the first tutorial one.

Exiting and respawning fixed it, but still annoying.

[u/Old_Individual4364]

Carbon Copy II isn’t triggering at all for me, just finished the game and beat Carbon Copy 1 many hours before this- can’t find “Heidi’s note” which guides are saying is the trigger but have no clue since nothings popping up
Have seen a couple comments here mentioning it but they didn’t have many likes so didn’t want this lost

[u/Morphchalice]

TryI’m mg to do the Lark Resonant quest after the update and it’s not letting me interact with the mold in the Pizzeria

[u/TACOMAN1150]

Post 1.4.2 hotfix Xbox is STILL constantly crashing. I feel like they aren’t even addressing this issue…

[u/Raizzaa]

The game is still constantly crashing for me on Xbox Series X, can't go more than 10-15 minutes without a crash or hard reset of the console.

[u/ChaoticReality]

Base PS5. Massive frame drops during The Dancer fight (usually during her combo which made dodging harder).

[u/VenomSWR]

PC - 7800XT & Ryzen 5 5600X, and I'm experiencing heavy crashes and some weird FPS issue. I know they said there was a performance issue on AMD 7000/9000 cards but I didn't expect THIS. It seems like the in-game frame limiter (not the V-Sync, the actual frame limiter you can set up between 30 and 360 FPS) is not working. I put it at 60 FPS immediately, and so far I'm playing between 80 and 120FPS, despite it being limited to 60.

I have no idea if this is an AMD issue, or if the frame limiter just does NOT work.

[u/leylllo4815 → u/VenomSWR]

i can confirm, RTX 4070 here and the limiter does not work, i'm gonna have to use the NVIDIA limiter

[u/Resevil67]

2 things I noticed, been playing since early access.

I don't know if this will come back to bite me in the ass, but there's a side quest in central when you get to the field base where you can talk to a guy named Langston and he will give you a side mission to help secure a panopticon. DO NOT TAKE THE RADIO OUT OF THE CONTAINMENT BOX ITS IN. This completely glitches and skips the first phase of the quest where your supposed to power on the console. For me the quest completed but I never got to power on the console, I really hope it isn't used for any other side quests in the game, hence why I said I hope it doesn't bite me in the ass.

Second, there seems to be a very long loading time coming out of subways back to main streets in a few places. You have to go through the Subway to first get to central the fire time, and for me the door to street level when I got there blinked yellow for a out 12 seconds before it opened. Later on a quest involving another subway place did this as well. Yet I can go to a fast travel door and it'll load me into a completely separate place in 4 seconds, so I don't think it's something wrong with my ps5.

[u/Moleculor]

General fix for issues I've experienced so far:

1. Audio Crackle: Go into your Windows audio settings and reduce the playback rate from 48000Hz to 44100Hz.
2. Lipsync desync during conversations/cutscenes: Disable VSync.

[u/offocialqdoba → u/Moleculor]

Unfortunately that did not fix my stuttering.

[u/T1O1R1Y1]

Audio drops from PS5 quite often, like every 15 minutes. I have to switch to a different app on my tv and play something to force the sound to play again. Not sure if this a me problem with my older receiver surround sound/new tv setup. It’s happened before on games every now and then, but this is the worse I’ve seen it.

[u/The_Dung_Beetle]

FSR4 issue : crazy artifacting on anything below native render resolution. It's really hindering my experience, I need to use optiscaler with XESS to get half decent looking upscaling.

edit 1 : so to clarify, these are white rectangles appearing on the walls of buildings in a flickering fashion, very distracting. It's also there at native resolution and also visible with optiscaler/XESS after some more testing, but rendering below native res makes the issue a lot more pronounced. Turning RT off and changing any other graphical setting does not resolve the issue. Someone describing the same issue in the Radeon sub.

edit 2 : Steam Community Post Describing The Same Issue.

edit 3 : I'm on Linux but the issue also occurs on Windows.

edit 4 : seems to be RDNA4 issue, using RADV_DEBUG=nohiz %command% set as a Steam Launch Option for the game makes it render properly for me on Linux.

[u/-Hjonk]

significant cutscene audio desync on anything pre-rendered/live-action. running quality settings + high graphics on PC (latest cachyos linux via proton, runs well otherwise)

edit: fix was to turn off vsync

[u/Living-Beautiful4201]

Flickering/pop-in shadows around foliage, like grass. PS5 Pro.

Not too bad, but noticeable in some sections.

[u/Malice31]

I have my sound maxed out and it's really low audio idk why. I switched to my TV setup with large speakers maxed it out and still not loud. Only this game has this issue?

[u/omangutan]

Major audio issues from literal startup. Crackling, volume issues, and what sounds like a sampling mismatch or heavily compressed audio artifacts. On PC, Intel with NASA specs from 2 years ago, 4090 and EVGA Black mobo, not looking anything else up as this seems like a global issue.

[u/Apprehensive_Gap6055]

Experiencing audio stuttering and de-sync during cutscenes on pc (steam). Tried several hot fixes including the ones on remedy website. No success. Unplayable in its current state.

[u/Richard_Worthington]

I'm at the end of the artist boss fight- I had to reload it once, but the problem persists where the boss is "knocked out", sitting on the ground, health bar at minimum, but I am not able to do anything beyond that. Looks like it's supposed to trigger a kill animation where Dylan jumps up and stabs the eye? but that doesn't happen for me. PC

[u/Kindly-Mess6986]

En deux heures de jeu le jeu a fait crash ma console 4 fois au point de s’éteindre totalement. J’ai jouer à autre chose après et il n’y a eu aucuns soucis donc c’est bien Control qui à un bug.

[u/Tlentic]

Not sure if this is on your end or Nvidia's end but this game drawing an unusually high amperage through the 12VHPWR connector. This is the only game that has ever triggered a safety warning and a shutdown due to the amperage draw being too high. Backing off the graphic settings reduces the frequency of the overdraw but does not fully solve the problem. There's probably something wonky in the driver that's allowing this. This is a fire hazard and needs to be addressed!

[u/VergaChica44]

Lating American Spanish has a lot of spelling errors (including uncensored parts of documents that say "CENSOREDCENSOREDCEN", constantly even if in the picture that appears to be black out) and some documents doesn't "cross" (X) the same thing that is crossed in the picture. Most of the spelling errors are words without the spaces in between, some that are completely in bold that should be normal. Thanks.

[u/obnoxious71717]

Audio, especially music, crackles and cuts in and out. No fixes Ive tried have worked. Its worst in combat

[u/electric_mobility]

I'm getting an utterly bizarre symptom every time I get more than a few minutes into the game, which I can only describe as my GPU crashing. Both of my monitors suddenly turn off with a "No signal" error, but the game is apparently still going. I can hear the music and sound effects, but with no video being output from my GPU, I'm entirely stuck and have to force-power-cycle my PC.

Specs are: Ryzen 7800X3D RTX 5090 FE 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 motherboard Corsair RM1000x Power supply

[u/SquigglesTheAzz_ → u/electric_mobility]

This has happened now twice to me. A couple of hours of game play each time.

[u/Practicalbeaver]

I’ve had my game crash twice now on Xbox series S after trying to fast travel a second time shortly after a first fast travel.

[u/Magenof-Forlorn]

I defeated the Co-Director and unlocked the Command ability. Command is available and usable in my ability loadout, but Command Charges never drop.
I have completed multiple combat encounters after unlocking Command and have not seen a single purple Command Charge. The charge counter remains at 0.
I have tried fully closing and restarting the game, reloading my save/checkpoint, fast travelling to different areas, and fighting fresh groups of enemies. The issue persists.
This appears to prevent me from using the Command ability despite having unlocked it normally.

[u/aSummerSarahndipity]

I use a ps5: I am unable to actually ask Pope anything. It gives her a red marker and I go to talk to her, but it immediately exits me out of the dialogue.

[u/SpaceChimp1990]

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070. Intro cinematic is extremely laggy/choppy, audio glitches, very significant delay when loading textures/models. Haven't been able to get past Jessie standing up from the table, will hold on playing through until there's a patch to make it playable.

[u/adrian51gray]

Few issues so far:

1. Why can't I equip the same ability into to multiple loadouts? This is such a pain.
2. There is an engineer in the mold parking garage trying to fix something who always dies due to mold poisoning even though they are barely attacked. I can't stop them dying at all even when killing all the enemies.
3. It might be just me but where is the background music in this game? The world sounds so quiet and dead - I think I've only heard two music tracks so far and I'm almost done with Unknown... The sound balancing definitely sounds off - hitting a hiss vehicle sounds like a single low quality sound effect and all other sounds go quiet for that moment.
4. Some big enemies spawn out of bounds in various arenas and even outdoor sections meaning the hiss never goes away and I have to reload
5. Is there a reason the dog toy can be picked up in the hub area after you've completed the dog missions?
6. Also in Unknownthere is a gym which has equipment for a puzzle and it was completely unclear to me that apparently a 'set' is only half the instructions. The letter said 'two sets' so I thought I had to follow the full set twice - you know - warm up, two heavy workouts then a cooldown, then drink, then repeat.

[u/Dyskusten91]

Crashing on series X. I’ve tried to recreate scenarios to make it happen but it seems to be any and everything. For the final test I just loaded into the game and sat there and it crashed after about 35 minutes, console completely shut off. I’ve reinstalled the game, and even factory reset my Xbox to no avail.

[u/ReeceO95]

The update that happened today on the xbox has stopped my current save file from loading, the progress bar for it get close to the end and just stops hopefully you'll release a hot fix or a patch to sort

[u/AhhJenkins → u/ReeceO95]

Same

[u/Donnie_Wahlburger]

Also unable to load my saved game after a 41gb update on xbox unfortunately, save loading hangs around the same point others described

[u/DennisSplatKing]

game won't load my saves on pc/xbox now

[u/Academic_Speaker_810]

My save won’t load on PC/Xbox - the loading screen freezes at about 90%. If you guys actually broke my 30‑hour save… I swear to God.

[u/VladGanjula]

I've been having an infinite load screen. Game was fine yesterday, but now? Won't even load.

[u/Affect_Glass]

The latest update won't let me load my saves anymore on Xbox. It worked fine right after updating, but 3 hours later the loading screen started getting stuck around 90%. Loading a previous save doesn't work either.

[u/Rustover]

Unable to play the game after the latest update. Stuck at the loading screen no matter what I do. PC thru Xbox app. 4080 super GPU.

[u/Tonsilith_Salsa]

I just wanna say, it's a really great update. All the changes are perfect and the job you guys did balancing the combat is superb. 

Or so I'm told. idk I haven't been able to launch the game all afternoon.

[u/NoSecretary3508]

Cant rush while levitating anymore, please tell me this isn't intentional! The movement around the city, zipping and bouncing from rooftop to rooftop was my favourite part of the game!

[u/sid5427]

the dash float ability is bugged now ... broke the old way of doing it which is literally a carryover from the older Control game - see the thread linked below. bring it back unless you guys have a good reason for it to be like this. The change makes no sense and makes traversal and combat extremely hard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/controlgame/comments/1wv0ny9/they_nerfed_the_dash_float_ability/

[u/DennisSplatKing]

The mold quest is completely broken now I can't eat any mold

[u/allltt]

Having some trouble regarding the mold being inedible in the park quest. Think we can expect a hotfix for that soon since it’s a softlock, or will we have to wait for the next proper patch?

[u/dietrichenstein]

Playing on the latest update on PS5 and just completed Every Dog has Her Day, completing the quest did not unlock the Untapped Trusted Spanner. ☹️

[u/Gyro_Girl]

Post Patch 1.4.1 - Xbox Series X still crashing routinely. Sometimes back to the dashboard, sometimes crashing the entire console. I don't want to say the game is unplayable, but it's infuriating having to work around this. It's Bethesda-level at this point, and I truly wish I was exaggerating.

[u/No-Way2717]

This new update introduced insane amounts of stuttering, especially during saving. On an nvme drive too...

[u/Dyskusten91]

18 days and still no communication on Xbox crashing.

[u/randomguy4129]

Are we going to get a fix for the audio soon? Sometimes it's unbearable for me. Been having these issues since around day 2, I've tried everything