How To Turn On Secure Boot For Battlefield 6 On PC

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Battlefield 6 may reinvigorate the long-running first-person shooter franchise, but you’ll have to be able to play it before you can know if you like it. If you’ve booted the game up to see an error message telling you to turn on Secure Boot, then chances are you haven’t had an opportunity to dive into any warfare quite yet.

Simply put, Secure Boot is a setting turned on through your BIOS that adds an additional layer of protection when booting up your PC. Battlefield 6 absolutely requires you to have it turned on before you can load the game. So, unless you want to stare at an error code rather than operate a tank, we’ll need to walk you through how to enable this setting.

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If you’re a techie who builds your own PCs, you may have an idea of how to turn on Secure Boot already. But for the average gamer with less computer knowledge, accessing the BIOS can sound as daunting as hacking a mainframe. Worry not, though–here’s a step-by-step process for turning on Secure Boot.

How to turn on Secure Boot

The way you access your BIOS will depend on your motherboard. Every manufacturer has a specific key you need to repeatedly press during the bootup process, with the most common ones being F2, F10, F12, or the Delete key. But there’s an even easier way to access the BIOS in Windows 11 while your computer is turned on.

Open your Start menu, then click the power button on the bottom right.
While holding Shift, click Restart. This will boot your PC into the Windows Recovery Environment.
On this blue screen, select Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > UEFI Software Settings > Restart.

You’ll now be in the BIOS. Each BIOS looks a bit different, but they all have the same general functionality. You’re looking for one of two menus: Security or Boot. Sometimes, you’ll even have both of these settings. Either way, within one of these menus will be the Secure Boot toggle. Set Secure Boot to Enabled.

Now, you’ll need to save the settings and leave the BIOS to boot up Windows 11. You’ll usually find an Exit setting within the BIOS, but you should also be able to press Esc or F10 to leave. And with that out of the way, you can get started blasting away in Battlefield 6.

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