As the title says, I tracked down a bug where with my firewall on Sins won't start, it locks up my PC on the black screen before the opening movies play. I reinstalled a few times, rebooted tons, tried everything, and finally I shut off my firewall and it ran fine. I think this is a bug that needs to be looked at, I won't switch to another firewall because Comodo is freeware.
I do know the problem might be firewall privelages detection, because the FirewallInstall program in the Sins directory tells me it fails to add program to exceptions each time I try it. Should be a farily quick fix for Ironclad I hope.