We wanted to take the time to explain our approach to anticheat solutions for Battlefield 2042. We are committed to our Positive Play Charter, aiming to create a positive gaming environment. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance Anticheat and Fair Play, Secure Boot is now a requirement to play Battlefield 2042 on PC.

This supports the need for enhanced security while playing and utilizing new anticheat features in Battlefield. As cheat developers continue to evolve their tactics, we're stepping up our game too.

Requiring Secure Boot provides us with features that we can leverage against cheats that attempt to infiltrate during the Windows boot process. It also lets the Battlefield Positive Play team use its own features and related dependent security features like TPM (Trusted Platform Module, which is a dedicated security chip on a computer's motherboard) to combat other forms of cheating and related techniques, the most relevant of which include:

Kernel-Level Cheats and Rootkits
Memory Manipulation and Injection
Spoofing and Hardware ID Manipulation
Virtual Machines and Emulation
Tampering with Anticheat Systems

Any attempt to access Battlefield 2042 without Secure Boot enabled will result in a prompt indicating its necessity and being unable to launch the game. Players that use hardware that does not support Secure Boot will still be able to launch Battlefield 2042.

Secure Boot is available for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices, and if you’re running a newer system it might already be enabled automatically. For more information on enabling this feature, refer to this EA Help article.

https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/secure-boot/

In addition to utilizing Secure Boot to help us, our Anticheat System (EA Javelin Anticheat) is customizable and offers a unique and modular approach for Battlefield and other EA FPS games. Javelin has been built from the ground up by a team of veteran engineers and analysts who were specifically hired to focus on cheating problems for each game under EA’s umbrella and design unique features to address those issues. They work alongside our Battlefield Positive Play team to refine the data, insight, and tools necessary to ensure equitable play for all our players across our Battlefield Studios titles.