FACEIT announces TPM 2.0 deadline

Through a post on X, FACEIT have announced that TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot would be made mandatory across the platform. As a part of their final rollout of Windows security settings (TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, IOMMU & VBS), FACEIT are set to deploy mandatory VBS, TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and IOMMU settings across the platform starting 25th November 2025.

In a step by step guide, FACEIT has also explained how to enable these features -

Enabling TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, IOMMU and Virtualization

These changes come as a big step in upgrading FACEIT's anti-cheat to combat cheaters. In their previous blogpost, FACEIT described in detail the significance of each requirement. Here's a quick breakdown:

• TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot
  Secure Boot and TPM create a verifiable report that guarantees your PC starts up without loading any unauthorized or modified software. The FACEIT Anti-Cheat can check this report before allowing a player to connect to a match on FACEIT as many advanced cheats attach to unauthorized or modified legitimate software to access the PC’s kernel.

• IOMMU and VBS
  IOMMU acts as a hardware-level firewall for RAM, restricting what plug-in devices can access which prevents DMA-card cheats from reading protected game memory and we can pair it with VBS to ensure reliable enforcement. Both IOMMU and VBS have been in limited rollout on FACEIT since April 2025.