A couple of days ago, we informed you about the Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 requirement for Battlefield 6. And today, Activision has revealed the exact same requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. So, unless you enable Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 in your BIOS, you won’t be able to play the new COD game.
It’s also worth noting that Season 5 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Warzone will also have these two requirements. Right now, you can play these two games without Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. Once Season 5 goes live, though, you won’t be able to. To keep playing, you’ll have to enable them.
Since I saw a lot of confused people in my previous article, let’s go into more details about Secure Boot and TPM 2.0.
Secure Boot is a safety feature found in most modern computers. When it’s turned on, it makes sure that only trusted programs (like Windows and important drivers) can run when your computer starts up. Its main job is to stop dangerous software, like rootkits or viruses, from loading before your system is ready. It checks that everything is safe and approved before letting it run. So no, Secure Boot isn’t some kind of spyware from EA or Activision. It’s actually a helpful feature that protects your PC.
TPM 2.0 is a small security chip that comes with most modern computers. It helps keep your system safe by working with your operating system to protect important data. In fact, TPM 2.0 is required to run Windows 11. So, if you’re already using Windows 11, this feature is probably turned on already.
In my previous article, I explained how you can enable them. I also highlighted an issue that some may face even when enabling them in your BIOS. So, make sure to read that article as it can help you fix any issues you may encounter.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Treyarch and Raven Software want to give players the craziest Black Ops story yet. The year is 2035. The world is falling apart after huge wars and mind games that started in Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 6. Now, with high-tech weapons and gear, the Black Ops team, led by David Mason, must stop a powerful enemy who uses fear as their main weapon.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will feature a co-op campaign. Players will be able to squad up with friends or play solo in its thrilling campaign mode. They’ll also harness near-future weaponry in a signature Multiplayer experience packed with brand-new maps, and descend into the next twisted chapter of Round-Based Zombies in the heart of the Dark Aether.
Activision will release Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 later this year. Right now, there is no exact ETA on when it will come out. We also don’t have its PC requirements. As soon as we get them, we’ll be sure to share them with you.
Stay tuned for more!
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I stopped playing COD after the original modern warfare 3.
stopped playing battlefield after Bad company 2.
never going back. No reason to.
Lol I remember MW3 being absolute trash. BlOps2 was BETTER. Bad Company 2 was pretty good at least. BF2 was the peak though IMO.
MW2 was the last COD I played before stopping for years. MW2019 brought me back, it is still the best "new one". All the following games went down the toilet again don't think i'll be going back again.
Blops2 came after MW. It is better as a game and techwise, but at least MW3 had the excuse of being an earlier title.
Blops2 came after MW. It is better as a game and techwise, but at least MW3 had the excuse of being an earlier title.
I know. And if I remember right MW3 wasn’t developed by the same people that did 1 and 2 because of what happened to those developers. I believe they went on to make Respawn Entertainment afterward.
I was thinking of playing the spanish civil war mod for COD WaW at some point, i already played the one made for COD2 wich was interesting.
The campaigns are enjoyable when they join Gamepass. Worth a handful of hours of gameplay every few years or so.
The number of people you see online praising BF3/4 is nuts, they were both riddled with issues many of which were never fixed. I guess the "fans" have had their minds wiped by nostalgia or something.
All of them are CODkids
BF3 is when the franchise became COD with vehicles.
i stopped playing cod with ww2. mw 2019 is good so are black ops 2 and infinite warfare at least the campaign.
Infinity Warfare was my latest COD campaign i played. Played Battlefield 3 once. Needless to say, i don't give a single cent to these companies.
Oh no.
They can suck my d***
I'm running Win 11 and play a lot of "untrusted source" games without issues, so it's the "trusted source" programs that will cause the issue, so I won't bother playing these until they become untrusted just like CoD MW 2019
context?
CoD MW 2019 just recently became "untrusted" you know. Only campaign part. For those who only play that. I hope you get it now 😉
Every time i want to run a friendly program that pesky Windows Defender malware tries to stop me. Searched the web for a definitive solution but it always seems to come back.
Just check it with virustotal & if it reports keygen, crack, its safe, if it shows trojan, malware, or win32 etc., it's suspicious. When you're assured you can add an exception to your defender. But remember this never disable it. You have to be familiar with what you're doing. I can instantly tell if something is safe or a fishy, either a website or a program. Been doing this for decades. I know a thing or two about computers you know.
A this point one has to be really stupid to even consider giving them money for this, let alone spend time playing it
All thanks to the RICOCHET anti-cheat system injection !
Both of these hardware-level protections give more leverage to the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat, which will activate both these features in the background.
As per the developers, the system will run two checks: one through Windows at startup, and one on Activision''s servers to ensure there hasn't been any sort of tampering.
But, both will "remain inactive" during gameplay.
Btw, as per Activision, users will also require a "mandatory" 2FA/two-factor authentication login in near future.
Though, the publisher isn't pushing 2FA as a requirement on Activision accounts just yet.
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I expect MS will push this in WoW eventually as well since they own that to. I am curious if they are requiring HVCI in COD like they are Valorant, BF6 though. HVCI is just awful for cpu temps and is one reason people see performance go way down with it on. CPU's can no longer ramp as high and throttle. I saw 10c gains on temp on my x3d's and that is with a -25 all core. For people not undervolting and not on really nice cooling HVCI can be really bad and might take a borderline stable system to the shadowrealm.
Worse yet, soon Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 will be required for all software installs on Windows 11
i bet they gonna use this to prevent cracks like black ops 6.
Ironic is the problem is for legit owners only crying for new bottle of COD on which Activision depends on for sales. It will be bypassed after some year similar to battle.net stupidity so people who have patience will download play it in a day & delete it to save around 200gb of space.
You have to be lobotomized to give these companies money.
All you need to do is read this article:
https://secret.club/2021/06/28/windows11-tpms.html
You'll now understand the reasoning behind pushing these Secure Boot & TPM technologies.
It is not to protect you as a main goal, there is a larger agenda at play here.
Unfortunately that future does not look bright, neither for those with a Steam Deck or wanting to game on Linux.
This will become a way broader theme in the coming years.
The anti-cheat is just a Trojan horse to prepare the masses for what is coming for them.
I guess that means I won't be playing this game either. That's OK, I had already given up on the CoD franchise after they implemented mandatory temporal SMAA or temporal upscaling, with no spatial SMAA (SMAA1x) and no "Off" option.
For people that want a saner, SAFE Win 11 that uses the official MS iso that can still update I will just leave this video here which needs mod approval. This is the guy who made Microwin and I highly suggest installing it with the current drivers options on a running system to remove all bloat being needed from motherboard drivers, awful software like Armory Crate. You copy the command on the github and run it in terminal and you can use that command post install to show later customizations he shows on the new install. You may need to run the following commands in Command Prompt as Administrator if an update fails:
1. "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth"
2. Restart your PC
3. Then run: "sfc /scannow"
4. Updates will now be good to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PA1wgdMeeI&t=1s
I dropped around 60 running Win 11 processes with this install, removing copilot, setting search to not use bing in the post install tweaks and turning off edge in startup. Win 10 is fine in performance against Win 11 without all the security stuff on. With the security stuff on Win 10 is pretty bad and I expect that is to push Win 11 adoption. Most games should not need core isolation memory integrity on which raises temps of the CPU and can harm performance on games. Turn it off other than playing Valorant, the new BF6. if HVCI is listed as required for COD you will need it there as well. Windows has it on be default on the newest installs. Secureboot, TPM, HVCI are all different things. IIOMMU is also different and has to be set on in the BIOS and is also now required in Valorant.
Hope it helps and for non online gaming a Linux machine or install is always an option and if you are looking for anything that is really private or secure Linux is simply where you have to go.
Yeah cutting out MS bloat is basically a must nowadays if you want a performant machine. Hope SteamOS takes off at the direction MS is heading
I've been using Chris' Windows Utility on Win 10 for several years now. It was the first thing I ran when I installed Win 10 on my new AM5 setup a couple of weeks ago. The best part is not only does the utility debloat Windows 10/11 it can install (and update) a lot of the software I use Open Shell, Notepad++, Brave, 4 major game launchers and a bunch of other stuff …. 32 applications installed with just a few clicks. If I need to check and install updates I just rerun the script
I recommend running
1. "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth"
2. Restart your PC
3. Then run: "sfc /scannow"
Any time you have a hard crash (computer freezes, shuts down or reboots) in a game or application.
Saves a lot of headaches and keeps you from having to re-install Windows. My previous install of Windows lasted from August 2020 until just 2 or 3 weeks ago without ever having to do a reinstall to fix a broken OS. I've spent most of 2025 helping people fix problems with games and better than 90% of the time the problem is Windows 11 24H2 while I have no problems with the same game on a nearly 5 year old install of Windows 10 which is why I'm getting extended service and hope Windows 12 is out by October 2026
Windows 11 = Windows 8 = Windows Vista = junk and nothng but a beta version of Windows ….. Vista was the beta version of Windows 7, Windows 8 was the beta version of Windows 10 and Windows 11 is basically the beta version of Windows 12
Here's Johnny with his "safe and effective" talking points to shill EA/Activision slop used to control the masses.
CoD has fallen so far from the beloved grounded FPS shooter it once was. those dumb r*tarded looking f*cking skins in warzone as well.
The last CoD I played was the first Black Ops and that was 15 years ago but still Activision churns a CoD game out every year and generates hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every year. The franchise is #1 in sales.
I don't think it's even possible to make a CoD game so bad that the loyal millions of fans would not buy it anyway.
i do not subscribe to the Idea of paying for a license to play that can be revoked with any OS change or update
Very strange that both of these upcoming games require this. Something is fishy.