Ocean Dweller
Member
Never thought to go the chatgpt route. what was your exact inquiry with it?
So, Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to function. My sons PC has the option for Secureboot but....
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Roll Fizzlebeef
Member
"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
Ev1L AuRoN
Member
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.
Ocean Dweller
Member
haha beautiful
mayham2199
Member
Hardware ID bans would be nice but I have no doubt PC players will find a way to get around it like they always do.
Zacfoldor
Member
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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Durin
Member
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.
dreamstation
Member
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.
Bojji
Gold Member
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.
Donald mac Ronald
Member
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.
dreamstation
Member
Had to do the same.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Rather have it.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
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.
ResilientBanana
Member
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.
Dalbajobas
Member
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.
dreamstation
Member
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.
Dalbajobas
Member
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]
asrawy2020
Neo Member
in this issues
Thank you for your solution. I wrote about this previously, and there is some news if you visit my profileIt's possible. I've done it at work before. Always make a data backup before doing so though, as you never know
MBR2GPT
Use MBR2GPT.EXE to convert a disk from the Master Boot Record (MBR) to the GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition style without modifying or deleting data on the disk.learn.microsoft.com
Slight update: i did it using option 4 in the windows club article, but i think option 1 will likely be your easiest bet
Double update: though im not sure how safe the data is in option 1? The article specifies without data loss, so it should be ok I think. When I did option 4 it didn't mess with data from what I remembered. But always always always backup data when doing something that invokes your data or windows install like this. Better safe than sorry.
As much as I shit on OneDrive, it does a decent enough job of backing stuff up for me.
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Secure boot is not a requirement for Windows 11 however TPM2.0 is.
Ofcourse secure boot has been around since Windows 7 but most people never bothered.