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jjbyrd04
Rising Veteran
2 years ago

Re: Secure Boot is enabled, but Madden 24 is saying it's not?

Yeah sooooo this one....

The "anticheat" software EA has put into the PC version has basically caused the game to fail to launch at all. As soon as you try to open the game you're met with the "Secure boot not enabled on this PC..." message which then proceeds to crash, or rather it doesn't get the chance to crash as it just stops the game from opening altogether.

While there is a method to "fix" this issue by modifying your PC's BIOS to enable "Secure Boot" it's not a guarantee that it will work, as simply enabling "Secure Boot" does not change the "Secure Boot Status" of your PC. It's probable that you'll need to Restore factory keys within the BIOS as well. In addition you'll need to run the game as an administrator and manually reinstall and update the anticheat software by running the installer from within the folder where you installed the game.

And even after all these steps, it's not a guarantee that it will resolve the issue. It worked for me, but my buddy did the same steps and it has not worked for him.

Sorry EA but the players should not have to modify our PC's BIOS due to lack of testing on this kind of stuff. I get that day 1 bugs occur but this should have never slipped through the cracks. Needs fixed yesterday.

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  • jsteed85's avatar
    jsteed85
    2 years ago

    I agree I did everything secure boot enable reset factory keys as well as messing with any other bios setting I thought may be messing with the anti cheat and nothing worked. EA we payed $70 of hard earned money for this game and can’t even play a single minute… there are 8pages of people saying they have the same issue and a vast majority of people never get on here and express their problems they have. You cannot just release a game that doesn’t work for a vast majority of players. The worst part is this isn’t the first time you’ve had the problem with this secure boot. There is 0 way you were unaware of this problem before release I would consider this fraud. And if you werent aware of this issue happening I would consider it GROSS negligence. 

  • jsteed85's avatar
    jsteed85
    2 years ago
    @jsteed85 And going into bios to change settings just increases the chances that people will get a No Boot error which effectively ruins their PC fix your bugs before releasing a $70 game

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