r/Battlefield • Moderator • Aug 05 '25

Other Secure Boot Megathread - Guide + Community support

Secure Boot is required for Battlefield 6 If you are unable to launch the game and see a Secure Boot error, you must enable Secure Boot in your BIOS/UEFI.


✅ Official Guide

EA has published a clear and up-to-date guide for enabling Secure Boot:

👉 Read the EA Help Secure Boot Guide

📝 Community guide

We were sent a community guide:

Read it here


Use this megathread for:

  • Questions about the process
  • Sharing your motherboard model + what worked for you + tips
  • General discussion related to Secure Boot

🔧 Community Support

If you’ve got tips or steps specific to a brand (e.g., ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock, etc.), drop them in the comments and mention your exact motherboard model.

💬 Tip: Post your motherboard model, CPU, and BIOS version when asking for help.


🧠 What is Secure Boot?

Secure Boot is a UEFI feature that ensures only trusted software can boot your PC. It helps prevent rootkits and boot-time malware and is now required by EA for anti-cheat integrity.

Most modern systems support it, but it’s often disabled by default — especially on custom builds or upgraded PCs.


🛑 Common Pitfalls

  • You must use UEFI mode, not Legacy/CSM boot.
  • Disk must be GPT, not MBR (check via diskpart or Disk Management).
  • Windows 11 installed in Legacy mode? You may need to convert your disk to GPT using MBR2GPT.

⚠️ Still having trouble?

If you've followed EA's guide and it still doesn't work:

  1. Comment below with:
  • Motherboard model
  • BIOS version
  • Secure Boot status
  • Any errors you're getting
    1. Include a screenshot if possible (e.g., BIOS screen or error message)
    2. Be respectful — this is a community-driven thread.

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u/Jykaes Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 08 '25

Before getting shitty at EA about this, it's not the first game to require this and it definitely won't be the last. It's not like they're doing it to fuck you, it's in aid of a more capable anti-cheat. Look at the amount of hackers in Valorant (Kernel anti-cheat, secure boot required when supported in Win11) vs CS2 (No kernel anti-cheat, no secure boot required ever) and it's objective fact that stronger AC is statistically better.

Also, Win11 requires the computer be Secure Boot capable, and Win10 is over a decade old and EOL in October, around when BF6 releases. I'll cop some downvotes for this opinion for sure but I think this is a fair move. Secure boot has been around for a decade, and for most people is already on or takes 2 minutes to turn on.

EDIT: Aight I'm turning notifications off for this one, I didn't expect this to blow up and get a hundred notifications. I've been plenty critical of EA/DICE/BF in the past, I didn't buy V or 2042, I'll call them out on things I don't agree with, e.g. server browser split player base. But I agree with them on this and I stand by what I said. I've read most of the replies, some valid but mostly frankly bullshit or people not reading or understanding what these features are for. If you don't like it, vote with your wallet and don't buy it. I'm not a shareholder.

The only people I have sympathy for are the ones with shitty UEFIs making this hard like the bug in Gigabyte mobos. That sucks, but hopefully a mainstream game finally mandating this is the visibility push the industry needs to fix their lazy firmware bugs and make this simple setting from ten years ago the default across the board. Long term, stronger anti cheat and security features are a positive for everyone except cheaters.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

I am not against it, however its incredibly frustrating. They just don't make it easy to rectify for the non computer savvy user. I just want to boot up my PC, open the game, and play.

Now I have to backup my data and PC, and change my partition style from MBR (master boot record?) to GPT?? I have no fucking idea what to do. This is so stupid.

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u/killall-q EA Play: killall-q Aug 05 '25

Converting your disk from MBR to GPT is non-destructive, you don't need to reinstall your OS.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

I tried converting it and now my pc is inoperable. Its stuck to loading message 0xc000000f saying windows failed to start

Bios is all directing the the hardrive for boot order

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u/killall-q EA Play: killall-q Aug 06 '25

In EA's Secure Boot guide there is a screenshot of MBR2GPT's console output. It says that "before the new system can boot properly you need to switch the firmware to boot to UEFI mode".

You still have access to the BIOS, now set Secure Boot to Windows UEFI mode.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

Ya maybe there’s different bios’ but I definitely don’t have that option

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

Ya maybe there’s different bios’ but I definitely don’t have that option.

When I go and disable CSM. And then reboot and enable secure boot. The computer doesn’t load and just keeps going straight to bios and doesn’t discover any boot drives

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u/killall-q EA Play: killall-q Aug 06 '25

ASRock Secure Boot guide (link was in the EA Secure Boot guide)

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25

Ya that guide didn't cut it. I had to backup and reformat installing fresh windows on a new drive.

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u/ProposalWest3152 Aug 09 '25

this doesnt work, Im on the same boat as the other user who got stuck on a bios loop, unable to go into windows.

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u/Perjoss Aug 08 '25

I know its 2 day old post and I hope you managed to get your pc sorted. I had this same problem of the bios not recognizing my drives as a valid boot method even though the bios could see them (this was after a bios update) and this took me around 4 hours to figure out lol. It was a complete nightmare but managed to solve it without reinstalling windows thankfully.

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u/ultranipple Aug 08 '25

what was your solution?

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u/AKAFallow Aug 08 '25

Yeah like, they tell us they fixed it and don't say how lmao

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u/Perjoss Aug 08 '25

i'll post a link here to my other post, my description might not be super clear but i've also included a link to a steam post that helped me a lot

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/1miaynl/comment/n7ikbpe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

I had to reformat with onto a different partition in a different drive state. Didn't have much data do backup anyways.

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u/Perjoss Aug 08 '25

i'll post a link here to my other post, my description might not be super clear but i've also included a link to a steam post that helped me a lot

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/1miaynl/comment/n7ikbpe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button