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Can the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 run Control Ultimate Edition?
Control Ultimate Edition by Remedy Entertainment: the publisher’s own minimum requirements, compared with this exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
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Recommended requirements: not rated yet
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- Operating system — needs Windows 7, 64-bit; also available on macOS (macOS requirements are listed separately on the Steam page); this laptop's value is not recorded
- RAM — needs 8 GB; this laptop's value is not recorded
- Graphics — Intel Arc 130T GPU / Intel Arc 140T GPU / Intel Arc Graphics 130V / Intel Arc Graphics 140V / Intel Graphics vs GeForce GTX 780 / Radeon R9 280X: not rated yet
Which configuration do you have?
This laptop is sold with 5 graphics options and the answer can differ. Pick yours — nothing is stored.
- GPU option (unpaired with CPU options) — Intel Arc 130T GPU: Does not meet the minimum requirements. Intel Arc 130T GPU is tier 2; the requirement is tier 4.
- GPU option (unpaired with CPU options) — Intel Arc 140T GPU: Does not meet the minimum requirements. Intel Arc 140T GPU is tier 2; the requirement is tier 4.
- GPU option (unpaired with CPU options) — Intel Arc Graphics 130V: Does not meet the minimum requirements. Intel Arc Graphics 130V is tier 2; the requirement is tier 4.
- GPU option (unpaired with CPU options) — Intel Arc Graphics 140V: Does not meet the minimum requirements. Intel Arc Graphics 140V is tier 2; the requirement is tier 4.
- GPU option (unpaired with CPU options) — Intel Graphics: Not judged for this configuration. Intel Graphics has no tier yet, so it cannot be compared.
How this was judged
Graphics chips are compared by class (an 8-tier rubric), not by benchmark score. The same tier as the requirement is only ever “likely”. Read the tier rubric and its limitations.
- Control Ultimate Edition system requirements · publisher requirements
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units · secondary source (Wikipedia), spec facts only
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units · secondary source (Wikipedia), spec facts only
- Manufacturer spec page for this configuration · manufacturer
- https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_6_Intel/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_6_Intel_Spec.pdf · manufacturer
- https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_E14_Gen_6_Intel/ThinkPad_E14_Gen_6_Intel_Spec.pdf · manufacturer
Published requirements
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X · DirectX 11
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 42 GB
- OS
- Windows 7, 64-bit; also available on macOS (macOS requirements are listed separately on the Steam page)
Recommended requirements
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-7600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660/1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 AMD | For Ray Tracing: GeForce RTX 2060 · DirectX 12
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 42 GB
- OS
- Windows 10, 64-bit; also available on macOS (macOS requirements are listed separately on the Steam page)
Sources and limits
How we know this · Report an error
- Valve (Steam) — Control Ultimate Edition on Steam — System Requirements · retrieved 9/20/2026
The laptop’s figures come from its verified specification page. Requirements are the publisher’s and can change. This compares the laptop with the publisher’s listed native requirements — it does not account for emulation, translation layers or cloud gaming. See how we verify the specs.