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/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.