EA and Activision are both set to clamp down harder on cheaters in Battlefield 6 and Black Ops 7 by requiring that PC gamers have TPM 2.0 hardware and have Secure Boot enabled within their system BIOS – this is also required for the Battlefield 6 Open Beta that has just started today.
Battlefield 6 will lean on the latest version of Javelin Anticheat, while Black Ops 7 uses Activision’s Ricochet Anti-Cheat, both of which are kernel-level anti-cheat software. This provides the anti-cheat software deep level access to be able to spot and cut out cheating software in as many of its forms as possible.
Requiring Secure Boot takes things another step further, leaning on the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which is built into all modern CPUs and is a key component for Windows encryption and digital rights management. Having TPM 2.0 hardware is a requirement for Windows 11 (albeit one that’s easily skirted past), but Secure Boot is technically optional, even if it does provide greater system integrity and security.
The further issue is that both EA and Activision are patching in the newer version of Javelin and Ricochet into previous games. Black Ops 6 and Warzone both require Secure Boot now, while EA added Secure Boot as a requirement for Battlefield 2042, and have previously rolled Javelin out for BF1 and BFV.
Source: Call of Duty, me trying to load up Battlefield 6 beta
