EA requires open beta players of battlefield 6 to change their motherboard bios settings

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In August of 2025, Electronic Arts (EA) launched an open beta for their upcoming release, Battlefield 6. Like other new EA titles, Battlefield 6 uses EA's proprietary anti-cheat system, which requires the enabling of Secure Boot, a TPM 2.0 chip, and a storage disk with GPT formatting as opposed to MBR formatting.

These strict technically detailed requirements caused frustration among PC users. As the game is an open beta there can still be changes to this system. Currently, the game is unplayable on the Steam Deck and on Linux systems. According to open beta tester 'TECC', it appears that these requirements apply to the entire game, including single-player modes and private multi-player servers. They point out that EA uses open source tools for their game (Godot game engine), but makes the game unplayable on systems built by open source software, which are the Linux systems in this case.

Battlefield 6 requirements

EA's response

There has not been a response yet, as the event was recent at the time of writing the article.

Consumer response

Generally people are dissatisfied with these requirements, as it is explicitly exclusionary to users on older PC hardware and/or open source operating systems.