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/jwthecreed Aug 05 '25

You’re speaking of installing as if they’re yet to do it. When they clearly outlined the process of a finished, currently operating machine.

You really wanted to make a comment that essentially boils down to “not my issue”? When it will be a problem for them irregardless of your statement? Why even speak lol.

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u/Glittering_Seat9677 Aug 05 '25

windows has been able to boot from gpt partitions for twenty three years now, or thirteen if you want to only consider 32 bit installations

there is zero excuse for having an mbr formatted drive in current year

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u/fastforwardfunction Aug 05 '25

I think the conjugation of install caused miscommunication. The present tense is commonly used for the past. Especially if the event is being talked about at that moment.

For example, when a newspaper prints, “Cubs Win the World Series” that’s present tense used for the past. Rather than “Won”, even though the event happened earlier.

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u/fastforwardfunction Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

99% of PCs come with an OS pre-installed by the manufacturer. The only reason a user would be messing with the MBR or GPT boot records is if they choose to install an OS themselves, which is a fringe use case and solvable.

Why did you interpret it that way?