Re: Windows 10 or 11 only supported for Battlefield 2042?

@infantrypeasantYou need a fairly new machine for running TPM 2.0, and make sure your Bios uses 'Secure boot' instead of 'legacy boot' (GPT-disks instead of MBR-disks in Windows).

You need one of the following CPUs:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3623192/what-cpus-can-run-windows-11.html

@infantrypeasantIn theory, TPM can help with anti-cheat solutions going forward, as it's a lot harder (i'd say impossible but let's be honest, someone's going to find away around it at some point even if it's custom-flashed MBs) to avoid hardware bans by spoofing with it enabled.

Of course, anti-cheats would have to be allowed access ala valorant's solution, but that's the potential upside of it.

That's what's "wrong" with it if you see why some might dislike it (if we don't go down the privacy rabbithole because that's a whole other debate, but in terms of gaming, it actually has some potentially useful applications if you dislike cheating).

Edit: To keep this halfway on topic, no you will not be forced to upgrade to windows 11 as others have already stated, it'll run on both.

Check out this tweet about Windows 11 support https://twitter.com/PartWelsh/status/1433790435814789152

Answering your question:

1) Regarding Windows 10/11

I have no doubts that Windows 11 will be supported by BF 2042 and more than that I think that Microsoft decided to release Windows 11 on the 5th of October ahead of the launch BF2042. It will be a massive boost to install their new OS for the gaming experience. So there will be support of W10, W11. If your hardware is not supported by W11 then no worries you can use W10. W11 will not be mandatory for BF2042 that's for sure cause DICE would lost a lot of players by making W11 mandatory.

2) Regarding Windows 7/8

Doubt that these OS will be supported as BF2042 is DX12 only. There is no such option as DX12killswitch in BF2042 settings as we had in BFV options

For what it's worth, the beta ran fine on Windows 11.