Secure Boot is a UEFI security feature that prevents unsigned or malicious software from loading, but EA now require it to run games, forcing players to tinker with BIOS/UEFI settings, risking system stability, and causing unnecessary compatibility issues. It's an unnecessary measure that only makes life harder for honest gamers.
Disable Secure boot!!!!!
It's like 3 total button presses in the menus though it's really not hard to do and tons of online resources to find exactly where it is in any motherboard bios you have available. It's all clearly labelled and at this point because Win10 is losing support you REALLY should honestly consider doing it for just general security and safety even if you dont go to 11.
Took just a few minutes at most to set up on my brothers PC when he had to do it a few weeks back.
This is an implicit agreement we make as PC gamers. Things change, and we always are doing the "Ship of Theseus" to our systems constantly upgrading and updating them. Legit the only OG part from my first build is just a single SSD I have for storage and that one is now just extra space not even the OS drive anymore. It ain't that bad man get it done so you can get in the game.
I'm not attempting to change anyone's opinion on secure boot. Here's my opinion on it.
Pretty much everything has secure boot now.
It's a good idea to backup valuable data before enabling secure boot. I only see data loss occuring if converting MBR partition to GPT.
Secure boot won't stop cheating on PC because there's no restriction on which apps and drivers can be installed.
Consoles have secure boot plus restrictions on which apps and drivers can be installed. Making them more secure against cheating.
The next frontier in cheating will be a camera pointed at the monitor screen with AI computer vision cheats running on a separate computer that aims the crosshair automatically.
Hopefully DICE is working on AI anticheats capable of detecting AI aiming vs human aiming. Ubisoft's mousetrap is the only AI anticheat I know of that's capable of detecting AI aiming.
too many people complaining, you turn it of or stop playing, stop thinking the world owns you an answer
Took me longer to read this thread than it took to turn it on.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people with such narrow-minded views as you. You think that if you can set up secure boot in two clicks, then everyone else can too. I've been trying to set it up for a week without success. There is no secure boot option in my BIOS menu. I switched BIOS mode to UEFI, enabled TPM 2.0, the disk is GPT, but there is still no secure boot in the BIOS. I think this is enough to be expected from an average computer user. I followed everything I found in the descriptions step by step.
Why I am crying about secure boot: no, it's not because I'm a cheater and I won't be able to cheat anymore. I've never cheated in this game or any other in my life. But because when I bought the game, the hardware requirements met to my computer met, so I paid for it. If it hadn't worked, I would have asked my money back from Steam. But it worked.
Now EA has changed the hardware requirements in such a way that I am unable to start the game on my computer, probably my motherboard does not yet have secure boot, but the game does not detect this. However, I can no longer get my money back.
You won't understand this anyway. Your understanding extends to the point that anyone who can't set up secure boot is stupid, and anyone who cries about it is cheater.
I hope there will be someone more intelligent here who doesn't just look at his own situation and understand why this is causing problems for so many people.
Ricix_soldier please list the manufacturer and model number of the motherboard, desktop, or laptop. I'll take a look at the owner's manual for a possible secure boot solution.
Hello Oskool_007!
I use a PC. The motherhoard is: MSI MS-7A15
I have the MSI Click BIOS (older version)
What I tried:
- I allowed the TPM 2.0 in Windows, because first time it was Disable
- I checked my disk with windows (C:) partition style: it was "GIUD Partition Table (GPT)"
- in BIOS at Security / Trusted Computing, I set the "Security Device Support" to Enable
- in BIOS I set "TPM Device Selection" to PTT
- in BIOS at Boot menu, I set "Boot mode" to UEFI
I restarted my computer and try to find the Secure Boot menu. It should be at Security menu, but it there isn't.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but you can see I did my best. It is more than two clicks.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if you can help or not. I appreciate you spend your time to try it instead of you call me stupid or cheater.
I don't want to set this up mainly because of BF2042, but because of maybe it will be introduced in other EA games, sooner or later.
Usually you need CSM (compatibility support module) set to “Disabled”
You were right. I set CSM to disable and the Secure Boot option appeared. BUT! I set Secure Boot to enabled, than click the Save and Exit. My couputer crashed. Black screen and 3 long beep codes. I struggled for hours to reboot my computer, but even the BIOS wouldn't boot, so I couldn't set back settings. I searched the internet for a solution (using my phone) and finally I found it. I had to unplug everything from the motherboard and then plug it back. Now I have got into BIOS. I wanted to set back everything, but it was not necessary because it was done, like a factory reset. I'm at work right now, so I can't test if Windows is working, but if I've already gotten to the BIOS, it shouldn't be a big deal. I'm sure as soon as I can boot my computer, I'll delete BF2042. I'm giving up on it, it's not worth that much to me. I go back to Battlefield 1.
Thanks for you tried to help. Maybe we will meet in another Battlefield game (until Secure Boot is implemented there too).
Ricix_soldier which video card do you have? Sorry to hear there were problems.
some people need to change their drives file system which on their boot drive (mbr/ntfs to gpt) with windows already installed naturally invites potential for corruption or other issues. It simply isn't worth the hassle to play one game that needs it
Simply put, it's not OK to switch the most basic requirements for a game after it's been published, especially those that block a paid user from playing the game. It is unethical and poor business practice! As an experience dev I can say if EA thinks it will solve their cheating problem they need to think again and hire some better devs. I played BF2042 almost every day since launch (~3.5) years and then all of a sudden I can't play it anymore. In my case I have drivers for peripherals (for video editing and color correcting) that are very old, no longer supported, and these drivers prevent me from turning on secure boot. I'm not going to spend 5K on replacements for those peripherals when they work fine on WIndows 11. Instead I will punish EA by no longer supporting them with my $ in any way. I've been a customer since the inception of EA. it's not the company it used to be. Of course we already knew that with the horrible launch of 2042. It took over a year to get it working well. Not going to buy BF 6, ever!
What can i do to play battlefield 2042 i have a motherboard asus maximus VIII Hero and don't have a option for secure boot. What can i do? Don't want to buy a new motherboard and new processor. When i bought 2042 my system was up to date now the changed it now the came is not more compateble with mWhat can i dy system. Would like some help to play 2042 with my system.
INSIDER_NL Your MB does have Secure Boot.
Please would you be so kind and let me know how, looked at the bios from my moatherbord at tab boot and advaced but can't find it. Sorry for my English it is not so good, i.m 66 but love to play battlefield and play them all.
greetings from the Netherlands
Hey INSIDER_NL it's likely a few other settings that hide it when enabled such as CSM (Compatibility Support Module). If you disable that, it should help it show up. Another thing to do is check if your drive is GPT (not the chat kind lol). Using my screenshot here as a reference, if you open up Disk Management in Windows you can right click the bottom Disk 0 bit there (or whichever one houses your OS) and then head to Volumes to see if it is either GPT which we want or MBR which we don't. If it says MBR you can do something called mbr2gpt which is built into the system already it's just a command prompt thing. Should be more than enough guides including those in Dutch for you but the process is rather simple and not too daunting.
Once those are sorted you should be able to find Secure Boot properly showing up to get it enabled.
Thx for your help. It was indeed de option CSM i disable that, after I did that i could switch it to secureboot, and battlefield is working again. thanks for your help, and also thank to
Greetings from a grand dad how loves to play battlefield, sorry for my poor English. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thx for your help. It was indeed de option CSM i disable that, after I did that i could switch it to secureboot, and battlefield is working again. thanks for your help, and also thank to sk1lld
Greetings from a grand dad how loves to play battlefield, sorry for my poor English. Greetings from the Netherlands
thx found the solution
No problem man glad you get to play what you enjoy again, and hope it carries you well into 6.
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EA is just too lazy to implement a decent anti cheat so they make you turn on SB, i don't want to do that and do not require it !!
over 250 games and battlefield is the only game that need this **bleep** turned on, what a **bleep** weak excuse for security,
we'll see when the game comes out, numbers don't lie, just like when they added to 2042 when form like peak player 15k on the weekend to barely 5k.
You DO realize that the requirement is coming for more than just Battlefield right? It's an innate part of Win11 which a lot of folks are going to start needing to swap to given the EOL of 10.
também estou com o mesmo problema! já fiz diversas alterações não bios, atualizei a mesma para versão mais atual! mas ainda sem sucesso! alguém poderia me ajuda com meu problema? tenho uma Gigabyte b450m
I also have the same problem! I have made several changes in the BIOS, updated it to the latest version! but still no success! could someone help me with my problem? I have a Gigabyte b450m
If you have Compatibility Support Module "CSM" enabled in BIOS you won't see Secure Boot. Your MB does support Secure Boot.
yeah this is kinda making me sick to my stomach that i need to risk my pc's health to play their game.
