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Revision as of 05:36, 26 May 2020

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments cover
Developers
Frogwares
Publishers
Frogwares
Formerly Focus Home Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows September 29, 2014
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments on MobyGames
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments on Wikipedia
The Mystery of the Mummy 2002
Secret of the Silver Earring 2004
The Awakened 2006
Nemesis 2007
The Mystery of the Persian Carpet 2008
The Awakened - Remastered 2008
Versus Jack the Ripper 2009
Nemesis - Remastered 2010
The Hound of the Baskervilles 2010
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes 2012
Crimes & Punishments 2014
The Devil's Daughter 2016
Chapter One 2021
The Awakened (2023) 2023

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Set launch options

Use the -nostartupmovies command line argument.

Fix "Graphics card not supported" error

Set launch options

Use the -nosettingslimit command line argument.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - Crimes and Punishments\SH7Game\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/241260/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - Crimes and Punishments\SH7Game\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/241260/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Vert- gameplay, pillarboxed cutscenes and dialogue.
Use the PCGW community tool or see the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
Vert- gameplay, pillarboxed cutscenes and dialogue.
Use the PCGW community tool or see the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use the PCGW community tool or see the WSGF entry.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
No dedicated option. See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MLAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
62 FPS limit.
120+ FPS
See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Changing anisotropy amount[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open SH7SystemSettings.ini.
  3. Change MaxAnisotropy under SystemSettings section to desired amount (e.g. 0, 16 etc.)
  4. Save changes.

High frame rate

Changing framerate cap[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open SH7Engine.ini.
  3. Change SmoothFrameRate under Engine.Engine section to False in order to completely disable frame rate smoothing.
  4. Change MaxSmoothedFrameRate under Engine.Engine section to to the value that is desired to cap the frame rate (e.g. 122, 146 etc.)
  5. Save changes.

Input

Gameplay Settings.
Gameplay Settings.

Disable mouse smoothing

Edit configuration file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open SH7Input.ini.
  3. Find bEnableMouseSmoothing
  4. Change value to: bEnableMouseSmoothing=False

Audio

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista SP2
Processor (CPU) AMD/Intel dual-core 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2048 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 14 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon HD 3850
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS or higher
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Rose on 2020-04-10
    Closed the launcher, renamed its program folder and the one in %LOCALAPPDATA% before launching the game through Sherlock.exe.