Call of Duty’s Team Ricochet Activates TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot

Call of Duty’s Team Ricochet began a phased rollout of two hardware-based security features, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and Secure Boot, with the launch of Season 05 on Aug. 7, 2025.

According to Team Ricochet, Activision’s dedicated anti-cheat unit working across the Call of Duty ecosystem, both features will become mandatory for PC players later in 2025 when Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives.

Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 check whether a player’s PC boots cleanly and hasn’t been tampered with before the game launches.

Players will receive in-game notifications if their system doesn’t meet the requirements, but enforcement won’t take effect just yet. This gives the team time to test and players time to prepare. Ricochet states there’s no performance hit, as TPM and Secure Boot only activate during system and game startup, not during gameplay.

This is part of a larger strategy to curb the growing sophistication of PC cheating methods. Secure Boot blocks unsigned or modified code from loading during system startup, one of the more common vectors for cheat programs. TPM 2.0 adds layers such as Platform Configuration Registers (which detect changes to startup behavior), Sealing and Binding (which lock data to specific system states) and Remote Attestation (which verifies the system’s integrity with Call of Duty servers).

Call of Duty’s Team Ricochet emphasized that these checks do not grant the game access to personal files.