From Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to Battlefield 6, More Online Games Are Requiring Hardware Security Measures to Prevent Cheating

From Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to Battlefield 6, More Online Games Are Requiring Hardware Security Measures to Prevent Cheating

Image: Activision Blizzard Game publishers EA and Activision Blizzard continue to seek ways to stop cheating by requiring users to enable hardware-based security features. Both Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 are among a growing list of online games to require features such as secure boot, TPM 2.0, or HVCI. These features are supported by most modern motherboards/CPUs, and in the case of TPM 2.0, are required by Windows 11. They are …

Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it

It's a Windows thing.