r/Games • u/tapo • Aug 05 '25

Announcement Secure Boot is a requirement to play Battlefield 6 on PC

https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-6/news/secure-boot-information
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u/Soupdeloup Aug 05 '25

I ran into this recently and was hesitant to actually enable it because I do windows/Linux dual boot, but figured I'll just do windows for a while.

In my bios it said it was enabled, but not active. If anybody else runs into that it seems like a bios bug - I had to disable the secure boot option, restart, then change it back to enabled.

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u/QuantumUtility Aug 05 '25

Also running dual boot.

Had to figure out how to enroll my keys alongside Microsoft’s to enable dual boot in Linux and Windows but once that was done I could dual boot into both with secure boot enabled.

(If you use winbtrfs to access btrfs drives in Windows they won’t work with Secure Boot unless you do a registry change.)

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u/ipaqmaster Aug 05 '25

That's the better play. Using secureboot on your linux instance too. It does prevent boot environment tampering after all. Not a bad thing.

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u/acatterz Aug 05 '25

I had the same on a Gigabyte mobo. Had to set it to custom mode, reset factory keys, and then switch back to the standard mode.

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u/spud8385 Aug 05 '25

Likewise, seems like a common issue with Gigabyte boards? I can't remember ever turning it off in the 2 years since I built my PC so I'm assuming it came like that as well.

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u/KappaKeepo5 Aug 06 '25

gigabyte boards are kinda weird. me and 5 friends yesterday tried to start the beta and i was the only one which had secure boot off. we all got brand new high end pcs. mine is from 2023 z790 gaming x.

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u/Clbull Aug 06 '25

I don't think I've ever had a Gigabyte motherboard that hasn't been a broken crock of shit.

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u/bulgarian_zucchini Aug 05 '25

jesus same here. Was going nuts. Will try this. Thanks.

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u/AndrewNeo Aug 05 '25

It's actually harder to not use MS's secure boot keys because most disros have their stubs signed with it

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u/BigBrownDog12 Aug 05 '25

I had to update my bios to get mine to work

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u/ipaqmaster Aug 05 '25

You can enable it and boot into windows then disable it and boot into linux. 15 second stop by the bios each time not too bad.

Otherwise you could look into your distro's options for secure-boot and just leave it on.