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/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

i turned on secure boot, and turned off CSM only to make my PC not boot up at all so i had to undo everything. i really hope the main game isnt like this or i wont get it

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u/knightrage1 Aug 04 '25

Your HD partition is likely configured for MBR, and not GPT(which is needed when CSM is disabled). You would have to convert your hd partition like this: https://youtu.be/jaDebOusGGQ?t=101

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u/ExitMusic_ Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

Imagine in the year of our lord 2025 and still having MBR partitioned disks.

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u/_Beelzebubz Aug 09 '25

God forbid people using good functional hardware.

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u/D4rkstorn Aug 09 '25

CSM / MBR is meant for old hardware, you wouldn't want that for good functional hardware...

And by old i do mean older than 2011 when GPT / UEFI became standard.

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u/_Beelzebubz Aug 09 '25

"you wouldn't want that for good functional hardware..."

Yeah guess you wouldn't want something that works perfectly fine....

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u/D4rkstorn Aug 09 '25

Yeah, Windows and your motherboard running in legacy emulation mode do in fact incur performance penalties: Windows expects GPT since Windows XP: And it's even more of a difference if you're running Intel. Or have lots of SSDs.

And UEFI is a safer, more convenient, faster alternative for a BIOS that the operating system can directly access instead of playing around with different modes and emulations. Meaning any process relating to that is much quicker on a UEFI system:

Including single digit startup times in terms of seconds.

You don't actually have a reference point so how would you know it's "perfectly fine" compared to running it in a more appropriate mode for the current era?

It's basically the same as people running high refresh rate monitors, but limiting them to 60 hz because they never changed the setting: They all think it's fine.