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

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Electronic Arts (EA) started testing their upcoming video game Battlefield 6 in August 2025. Like the other video game titles EA now releases, Battlefield 6 runs EA's own anti-cheat system and requires the use of Secure Boot along with a TPM 2.0 chip and that the storage disk partitions information is formatted with GPT and not MBR.

These strict technically detailed requirements caused frustration among computer 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 an open beta tester by the name TECC, it appears that these requirements are for the entire game, not just for multiplayer but also for the singleplayer option of the game and the private servers for multiplayer. 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 makes older pc hardware obsolete to playing this game.