Insane problems

[nokies]

my problem: i´ve installed INSANE correctly and when i want to start it, there comes a black screen everthing disapers and i´m back on the desktop!
what can i do??
ps: i have windows xp

(sorry for my bad english)

[[IHC]-MattCo]

Hi
Did u install any patches? if not make sure u only install patch 2 otherwise there is a problem playing online
We also have are own community for insane at http://www.insaneheat.com/ and try the help form at
http://www.insane.pro-hosting.co.uk...BB.pl?board=FAQ
as codemasters closed CMN and now the form
Also to play on line u will need game spy http://www.gamespy.com/

Good luck

[[IHC]-MattCo]

Hey Codemasters
Do u think u could make this a sticky ? as the insane board is now closed and if people need help they no where togo

[Michael A]

Hi nokies,

experienced problems with insane too. (System = Windows XP, insanepatch2 installed)

When no internet connection was active even single player game (without network) didn't start.
I saw the 3 intoduction demo movies and then Insane game.exe hanged with this message: "1NSANE detecting network..."

The reason I found out:
Insane does not work with the FIREWALL Software ZoneAlarm enabled when no internet connection is active.
(If there IS a internet connection active you will get no problems with ZoneAlarm running.)

Actually ZoneAlarm is not needed, when running Insane offline -
Insane does NOT open an internet connection!
(It only goes online, if you already have a dial-up-connection running)

Before starting Insane, deactivate your
firewall Software, and reactivate it after quitting the game.

For my convinience I wrote a BATCH FILE
named GAME.BAT that asks the user to turn off ZoneAlarm and restarts ZoneAlarm automatically after the game is closed.

I renamed the original GAME.EXE to INSNE.EXE...


THE BATCH FILE:

@echo off
@echo ************************************************
@echo PLEASE QUIT ZONE ALARM BEFORE GAME STARTS!
@echo ************************************************
start /wait %windir%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE hint.txt
start /wait INSNE.exe
@echo.
@echo Insane closed.
@echo Restarting ZoneAlarm...
start /D"D:\Programme\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm" zlclient.exe


THE BATCH FILE DISPLAYS a TEXTFILE
named hint.txt (located in the same Directory) in a notepad window.

After closing this window, insane starts.

hint.txt

Deactivate ZoneAlarm.
INSANE starts after closing this window.




HOPE THIS HELPS
Michael