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EA requires Battlefield 6 players to change motherboard 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.[1]

These strict technically detailed requirements caused frustration among PC users.[2][3] 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.[4][5] 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.[4] They point out that EA uses open source tools for their game (Godot game engine[6]), 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.

Gigabyte motherboards bricking issue

Some users noted that after enabling secure boot on Gigabyte/Aorus motherboards their machines got bricked to various state, including need to completely reflash UEFI firmware[7]. Not entirely EA anticheat issue, but requiring changing settings that users may not understand is malicious behavior.

References

  1. ↑ "How to use Secure Boot on your PC". EA Help. 2025-08-01. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
  2. ↑ "Secure Boot Megathread - Guide + Community support". 2025-08-05. Retrieved 2025-08-06 – via Reddit.
  3. ↑ "Secure boot". 2025-08-04. Retrieved 2025-08-06 – via Reddit.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 @TECC (2025-08-06). "#EA has confirmed that #Battlefield 6 will be completely unplayable on #Linux systems, including #SteamDeck, due to its new kernel-level anti-cheat system, "EA Javelin," which explicitly blocks Linux". Retrieved 2025-08-06 – via Mastodon.
  5. ↑ Klotz, Aaron (2025-08-02). "Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat Secure Boot requirement could kill its Steam Deck support". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
  6. ↑ Goodchild, Wayne (2025-08-01). "EA Lets Players Blow Things Up Real Good in Battlefield 6 (And Use Godot to Edit Maps)". Eneba Hub. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
  7. ↑ ""Secure boot" bricked my PC". 2025-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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