Wasted a couple of Euros on this pile of crap on Epic.
System requirements say 100GB, so I figured I could squeeze it onto my fastest SSD with ~120GB free. Nope! Insufficient disk space, because it needs 30% more space than “recommended,” like the numbers were just there for decoration.
The real problem and the fatal flaw is the anti-cheat garbage that requires Secure Boot, because apparently EA’s idea about Positive Play and fighting cheaters means violating my privacy and demanding I pull my pants down, bend over, and stick my butt in the air for their convenience.
The Trusted Platform Module on my PC is OFF and it will stay OFF. The companies behind TPM have shown time and again that they cannot be trusted, and their main concern is definitely not my privacy - it is to explore how far they can go with turning all of us into additional profit.
Until EA drops their rootkit-style anti-cheat they stay on my blacklist. Fortunately, this game is already in such big decline that I only wasted a couple of Euros on it. This is not about the money - it is a principle matter: I do not want to support a company that has no concern for the privacy or best interest of its customers.

Out of all the awful things EA does and is infamous for, I honestly couldn't care less about TPM/Secure Boot being a requirement. Currently have 1.2k hours on BF2042 and still playing.

TPM 2.0 is not a real requirement, just an hardware indication, while 'Secure Boot' is mandatory to load up their Javelin anti-cheat and has even become essential for other games
!!
and while gaming profits from Secure Boot, in major it is a general security layer, especially to critical companies and research facilities
1: ⚠️ List of games with 'SecureBoot' (+ TPM 2.0) requirements 2025
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1517290/discussions/0/592904784006164716/
2: How to enable Secure Boot
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1517290/discussions/0/805721428305444061/#c805721428305445569
no one will ever going to drop this essential security feature, upgrade your hardware, and .. you are MINIMUM a year too late to this complaining party . . .
also:
Secure Boot has existed for ~20
(!!!)
years yet, if you do not run it already, you are the caveman here, and/or a sad cheater
your complain is like you demand to keep up 16-bit software or think WPA-2 Wi-Fi (4) encryption and/or 128-bit encryption is safe .. NO !! it is NOT !! while a WPA-2 network can even be
"manually"
hacked, penetrated and infiltrated in under 15 minutes nowadays
(i do have such a certificate and license granted by the US DoD)
, todays AES-256 standard encryption becomes obsoleted and superseded soonish too .. well, these old eras are gone . . . and imagine such security breaches with the help of AI tools, too .. now combine AI-tools with Quantum Computers as I had forseen it years ago already . . .
just search the Web and latest news about current competitions and their races to develop the best and most competent AI-controlled breaching software. or about Quantum Computers, which will be capable to decrypt any machine in just a second .. new encryption is developed as a successor to the AES-256 standard encryption already ..
IT advances, especially during past decade, you are obviously not
and please, if you have not yet already, use at least a
Wi-Fi 6 + WPA3
network if being wireless and for your mobile devices for your very own safety and security, same with Secure Boot, and use your
'own'
brain as this has become really rare within this current generation on this low-iq planet
even 30 years ago, running a stable PC environment was never easy, and today it becomes more complex .. would not surprise me if people need to fulfill a driving license to run a computer or any device nowadays, it is a harsh world
about 80 years ago there officially lived about 1.75 billion human beings on earth, today, not even 100 years later, about 8.2 billion .. calculate that curve yourself .. do you even have a slightest idea what on earth is going on and which are the real (global) threats
??
this
Secure Boot
[en.wikipedia.org]
thingy
"was"
just the beginning .. 20 years ago .. currently various OS'es and various firmwares become more hardened and critical system files more isolated, and china hardware globally banned, next step is the next-gen and highly advanced encryption to be released, this will be huge news in about 2~ years and again a next era in IT begins, while you are still 15~20 years behind and perhaps also still running obsoleted HDDs on Windows 7
here, a short HDD vs SSD overview in 2026:
HDD 7200 RPM equals read/write 250 MB/s max, 2 TB, ~150 EUR (Western Digital),
SATA SSD read/write 500~600 MB/s max, 2 TB, ~250 EUR (Western Digital),
NVMe.M2 Gen5 TLC SSD read/write 14 GB/s, 2 TB, 250+ EUR (Crucial / Corsair)
wake up !!
everything has been said for multiple times, steam forums are filled by this topic, good luck
'knowledge is power', and you need to learn & to pay for this intel .. advance, use your "OWN" brain, or fall back, get lost, become forgotten and die alone . . . quickly

Ye i was stop play this game bc secure boot and i dont want go do bios and ruin whole system bc some 1 game

'knowledge is power', and you need to learn & to pay for this intel .. advance, use your "OWN" brain, or fall back, get lost, become forgotten and die alone . . . quickly

Seriously? You end your reply with this?!?
You clearly didn’t read what I wrote. The disk space discussion is not me whining about money or hardware limits; that is you inventing a take that was not there, then talking down to me about it.
And the core issue you are dodging is consent: you treat Secure Boot/TPM enforcement as an unquestionable “mandatory security layer,” while I am explicitly saying I am not turning it on. Again, not a money question for you to patronize me with.
I am not “missing the security angle” - It is about consent, plain and simple. Your response does not address that. It is just you trying to bully me into doing what you think is “essential” while pretending that my refusal is ignorance. If I don’t trust the company or the core premise of TPM, I am not going to be forced into it by silly anti-cheat demands or moralizing from you or EA. You act as if my refusal is ignorance; that’s arrogance, not a counterargument. Maybe I find your stance a bit ignorant. Who knows?
Also, your “upgrade your hardware / you’re a year too late” line is just a cheap shot. If it is so sound, explain why my refusal is invalid. Don’t insult me and wave with “everyone needs it.” That doesn’t refute the point; it only shows you failed to understand it.
And finally: “TPM 2.0 isn’t real requirement” while “Secure Boot is mandatory” is you shifting goalposts to win the argument you wish I made. Read my OP properly and then reply with argumentation. It was not meant as a stepping stone to promote your ego.

nothing changes the fact as the Secure Boot mandatory stays, started for a various of mentioned games in last year, and continues to grow as this first security layer is not just a first but an additional blockage against cheater, and not to mention about the general and major security layer and safety for corporations and (research) facilities, especially to machines which have access to the internet or to a gateway.
Secure Boot does not intrude in your privacy, the exact opposite fact is happening as it hardens your privacy AND safety and security, a feature and security layer which has existed for nearly 20 years already. see it as a firewall before booting up your OS
you again mentioned "root-kit" and add or attach this term to the Secure Boot which is a blatant FALSE .. Secure Boot PREVENTS to load up 3rd-party root-kits
!!
Neither Secure Boot nor Javelin are so-called "root-kits". so again, the exact opposite is going on here from your false claims
Google Chrome is literally a ROOT-KIT, in a short comparison and example
cheating tools do run under RING-0 while even can be malware and root-kits to intrude your privacy and steal personal data, so anticheat tools need to run under RING-0, too, to fight this. as easy at that
!!
We talk about RING-0 ?? well, cheating has moved from software tools to hardware devices . . . a whole fresh new column .. to fight cheater, then in where Secure Boot comes by and even helps to prevent to boot up root-kit firmwares as cheating hardware and software in our current example ... RING-0 becomes superseded by latest next-gen cheating tools, cheating hardware devices which loads up way earlier than RING-0
your best bet and hope in this case will be as EA changes their mind to expand and grant Javelin for Linux, and that is it. Secure Boot stays
!!
EA's Javelin anti-cheat has been built around Secure Boot:
Introducing EA Javelin Anticheat

April 24, 2025
https://www.ea.com/news/introducing-ea-javelin-anticheat
Secure Boot has become mandatory for Windows 11 24H2+, 26H2 rolls out soon while 24H2 becomes shut-down, .. and even will become mandatory for modern Linux OS as well ..
it has less to do with gaming at all, but is a major security layer for nearly 20 years yet, so if you do not run it already, plan to end your online gaming carreer .. soon
chances are high as if you do not run Secure Boot as you also do not own an AVX2 capable machine, too
AVX2, UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT (GUID Partition Table) .. all of this is a complex and DEFAULT hardware standard
GPT has been established as a default by Windows 10, just as UEFI and Secure Boot and other hardware defaults as AVX2
lets forget corporations and critical facilities for now, but Secure Boot and "ESPECIALLY" AVX2 are already mandatory for latest games. especially 3D-heavy games. lets talk about coding and programming games? well, game engines also develop and programming changes, advances and enhances too. game programming and AVX2 becomes mandatory.
even if you buy a new (pre-fab) PC or laptop, Secure Boot is already enabled as standard as a "default" factory setting. we need to move way back in time in where Secure Boot was "not" enabled as standard, and that is during the Windows 7 era and early Windows 8.x era. so your hardware must be that old, logically, not just for you alone but for everyone else who complain about this Secure Boot "feature".
if you had bought a fresh Windows 10 machine about 10+ years ago, Secure Boot was enabled already as a standard factory setting, see mentioned hardware complexity above
Steam Hardware & Software Survey: June 2026
>> Other Settings
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
we can say as an indication as a hardware default: ~95.2% run AVX2, 95% of Steam users run Secure Boot by default, you guys who complain are a minority ..
your title of this topic "Totally lost my appetite for EA Games" .. it is not just EA, check these first links i have provided above, as you clearly missed out past developed

all these nonsensical requirements just for A MEANINGLESS GAME....!!! NO! Its the greed of companies like these that destroys the gaming world! NOT SUPPORTING THIS CRAP!