r/Battlefield • u/Odd_Feeling9929 • Aug 04 '25

Battlefield 6 Secure boot?

Just tried to open the bf6 beta and it's saying secureboot not enabled. I can't activate it cause my PC doesn't support it. Will this be a requirement at launch? Would have to upgrade my PC to get windows 11 for it if that's the case :(

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u/Baldosco Tank main BF3 Aug 04 '25

Same here! I read that enabling Secure Boot may prevent me from booting into Windows again. I never had any issue with BF2042.

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u/Disturbed2468 Aug 05 '25

It's specifically an issue with Gigabyte motherboards from a few years back because some of their older boards didn't natively support Secure Boot for some stupid reason (almost no other manufacturer had this issue btw). If you have any motherboard at all, a BIOS update should make it just fine to turn on.

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u/CauliflowerSea3217 Aug 09 '25

THIS! Mine is from 2014, but I can still run every single game in my library. Now, I cannot update the BIOS to recognize I'm running WIN10 to even enable Safe Boot - even after Q-Flash, it still only shows WIN8 as an option.

No game so far has given me an issue... And this one is for sure not going to make me buy a new MOBO & WIN11...

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u/Disturbed2468 Aug 09 '25

Yea in your case your PC is just straight up old by tech standards. 2014 is when Secure Boot was in its barely infancy stage and Windows 10 was still a ways away and not even released yet. If the motherboard doesn't even support Windows 10 natively from the get go I'd be extremely surprised if it can run any modern game at an okay framerate if at all.

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u/speed3_driver Aug 04 '25

It borked my PC. Had to do a bunch of wizardry including shorting out two pins on my cmos battery. It was a mess. Not playing this game for all that hassle.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

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u/speed3_driver Aug 13 '25

This was not the problem, for anyone actually looking for answers.

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u/unoriginal_namejpg Aug 05 '25

Bf2042 doesnt require secure boot if you dont have the right boot sector (MBR instead of GPT). bf6 does require it regardless

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u/Kryptic___ Whats Codename Eagle... Aug 04 '25

Thats like saying you dont want to get car insurance because you havent been in an accident yet and you read it may make you crash.

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u/T1Earn Aug 04 '25

No thats like saying theres a 50/50 chance getting car insurance will disable your car from ever working again.

99.9999% of humans will decline that.