Fortnite adds Secure Boot, TPM and IOMMU requirements from Feb 19

Epic Games will require Secure Boot, TPM and IOMMU for Fortnite on PC from February 19 as part of expanded anti-cheat measures for all tournaments. Epic says, "On February 19, we’re expanding Fortnite’s Anti-Cheat system requirements for PC players to all tournaments, requiring three security features to be enabled: Secure Boot, TPM, and IOMMU." IOMMU — the input–output memory management unit — sits between system memory and devices such as PCIe hardware, mapping virtual addresses to physical ones and helping prevent untrusted devices from accessing the system before the operating system loads.

Most modern motherboards have IOMMU, and Epic notes that "If your PC is Windows 11-compatible (~95% of Fortnite players on PC), you likely already meet these requirements," though you may need to enable them in your BIOS. TPM and Secure Boot are also required. Those features have appeared in other large games, including Battlefield 6, Black Ops 7 and Highguard, and Windows 11 itself requires a Secure Boot-capable motherboard with a TPM.

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