So, Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to function. My sons PC has the option for Secureboot but....

Thank you for this thread.. i would have tried to turn it on friday and got royally frustrated. got it and the frustration done in advance..

im generally a dumbass and terrible at this kinda shit. Chatgpt walked me through how to check, and then how to convert and turn it on.
Never thought to go the chatgpt route. what was your exact inquiry with it?
 
Never thought to go the chatgpt route. what was your exact inquiry with it?
"im about to break something trying to turn on secure boot, help.."
then said lets go slow step by step. Gave it my motherboard details which i could see from MSinfo32. When it would reach a step that mine didnt look like i would call it out and give me a work around. like not having a "volumes" tab looking at disk properties.
I was actually pretty impressed with it
 
Go pay for online to still have to deal with XIM + aim assist users, potato IQ/performances, DRM "on disc/console itself"...
I rather do that, DRM on consoles are way less intrusive than PCs, The cheaters I have to deal with are pc gamers on crossplay games and as for potato IQ/performance, consoles have great performance/iq in the vast majority of games, and a pc to be better also cost a lot more. I agree that pay to play online is BS. Aim assist is necessary to be able to play fps on a gamepad and I will have it just like anyone else so I can't complain.
 
"im about to break something trying to turn on secure boot, help.."
then said lets go slow step by step. Gave it my motherboard details which i could see from MSinfo32. When it would reach a step that mine didnt look like i would call it out and give me a work around. like not having a "volumes" tab looking at disk properties.
I was actually pretty impressed with it
haha beautiful
 
Not sure how you call it a win when your console is a locked system.
I'm not here to platform war. I've gamed on PC most of my life. Only recently swapped to consoles. I've built PCs for my job, for my friends, for myself. Dozens. I actually love PC gaming even though it isn't for me at the moment.

However, this is an onerous requirement that they should not get away with(and all other online games will feel the need to follow suit).

You are having to reconfigure your PC to allow only trusted software. You are having to do technical work in some cases to change the partitioning scheme. You are having to change bios settings and also may need to reformat(or it may be easier to reformat it many cases.

Just for one single game to prevent cheats that you don't even do.

That is fucking insane and it is shit like this that makes people prefer console gaming. I'm sorry, it's true. Closed platform or not, plug and play is very valuable to a certain group and that is why it will be difficult to ever fully get rid of consoles. Shit like this.
 
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That is fucking insane and it is shit like this that makes people prefer console gaming. I'm sorry, it's true. Closed platform or not, plug and play is very valuable to a certain group and that is why it will be difficult to ever fully get rid of consoles. Shit like this.

It is stupid...but this at least isn't a common thing in the Windows ecosystem. The last time they did something like this forcing hardware changes that noticeably locked out users was back in the Vista days with the aero interface requiring DX9 + for the time higher ram usage. Hardware has supported TPM 2.0 since before this console gen started, but because 10 never required it some motherboards BIOS just didn't have it turned on.

I just don't want Microsoft to become more like Apple, who far more regularly drops support and/or forces new standards. They sold intel Macs up to 2023, and now they're dropping support for them this fall with their new OS version.
 
This should be enabled anyway, it's a requirement for windows 11 (install).
I upgraded from 10 to 11 and didn't have it on. I actually played the game last night just fine without it enabled but wouldn't let me play this morning without enabling it. Weird.
 
I upgraded from 10 to 11 and didn't have it on. I actually played the game last night just fine without it enabled but wouldn't let me play this morning without enabling it. Weird.

Yeah I was wrong about Secure Boot in my previous posts. Just played few minuted of BF6 beta. When I tried to play it for the first time: "secure boot is not enabled" message. I was like, WTF?

Turns out, Secure Boot was "Enabled" bot "Not Active" at the same time, I had to change two settings in the Bios... Weird stuff.
 
To turn secure boot on for me was a pain. I need to turn some custom key thing on, download the keys in the bias, then save and exit god knows how many times, then activate secure boot one more time. Wasn't a simple as turning it on in the bias.
 
To secure a boot, put both thumbs firmly inside the leg and hold firm while pulling it on, or you might shoot your boot across the room and hit someone.
 
Console peasant hyperbole, trying to make this sound harder than it is. You fuckers are as dumb as the box of fuckin' rocks you should be kicking.
 
I'm almost certain secure boot is off in my mobo settings... but would need to check to be sure. I remember disabling it some time ago.
Mine was most definitely disabled and I was able to play for several hours the first day without issue. Went to play again yesterday and it wouldn't let me without enabling it. Really weird.
 
Mine was most definitely disabled and I was able to play for several hours the first day without issue. Went to play again yesterday and it wouldn't let me without enabling it. Really weird.
It only takes a minute, so no issue. If it helps to lower obscene amount of cheaters that you can find nowadays in all online shooters then I'm all for it. [but someone already posted here about there being cheats available so.. they better start suing real programmers who make those cheats not just slap wrists of dumb kids for downloading them]
 
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