Insecticide

Insecticide is a singleplayer side view platform and shooter game. The game is also titled Insecticide Part 1.

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		English release
Retail		StarForce 5.50 DRM^{[Note 1]} - Russian release
Steam
GamersGate (unavailable)		^[3]
Green Man Gaming
GamersGate

StarForce DRM for this game may not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected releases).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/16710/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\profiles^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/16710/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

External video settings.

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Can be enabled using the videocard's control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Can be enabled using the videocard's control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 50 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		DirectSound3D through FMOD.^[4]
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	600 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 2.0 support
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

↑ Version 5.50 of StarForce DRM may need a manual driver update on Windows 7, 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11 to function properly.^[1]^[2] The driver can be updated using the included PCNSL.exe/PROTECT.exe tool.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (16710) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.