Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Will Require Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 Enabled on PC
Call of Duty Season 5 is arriving tomorrow for both Black Ops 6 and Warzone, and one of the most significant changes coming with it for PC players is the inclusion of Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 security.
While it’s optional for Season 5, both Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 will be requirements for Call of Duty Black Ops 7 when it releases later this year.
Call of Duty Joins the Many Multiplayer Games Pushing for Secure Boot Requirement
It was just this week that DICE announced that Battlefield 6 would be requiring Secure Boot on PC, and now, Activision is joining in by adding it to Call of Duty with the release of Season 5. This was revealed by the studio today, confirming that their anti-cheat tool will use both Secure Boot and TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 in the background.
But don’t worry just yet, as there’s plenty of time to turn the feature on if your PC supports it. With Season 5, both Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 will be optional. However, this will be the last season you can play with them off, as by the time the new one rolls in, Black Ops 7 will be out.
“With Season 05, Call of Duty will begin a phased rollout of two PC-based security features: TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot.”
TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) is an industry-standard, hardware-based security feature built onto CPUs or motherboards that verifies the PC’s boot process has not been tampered with. Secure Boot makes sure a PC can only load trusted software when Windows starts.
Together, these features help #TeamRICOCHET ensure that players are starting the game from a secure, cheat-free foundation.
RICOCHET Anti-Cheat will focus on activating both features in the background with the upcoming season launch. We won’t be enforcing against or requiring the use of either setting during Season 05, but these features will be foundational for even stronger protections in the future.”
Despite their wording on their Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 guidance page saying that PCs with Windows 11 likely have the feature enabled, I can tell you first hand across multiple PC builds that this is actually less likely to be the case.
Regardless, you’ll want to ensure both features are turned on. Activision has provided a detailed guidance page, though you’ll need to do a bit of research on your own as not all PCs have the exact same motherboard and such.
This seems to be the direction that all online multiplayers are likely going to end up enforcing, and though it doesn’t stop cheaters and hackers 100%, it does do a much better job than without the requirements.
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 currently has no release date, but it’s expected to arrive before the Holiday season of 2025.
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Um so it will be accessing kernel configurations and dedicating system memory to monitoring your systems resources?? Is this new DRM that is trying to be worse than Denuvo? Denuvo already has proven to hinder gameplay as when companies finally remove it, their games run 10-15% better.