Difference between revisions of "Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring"

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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

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v3.0 DRM^{[Note 1]}

GOG.com
Steam
GamersGate (unavailable)
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files^[3]
Go to `<path-to-game>\movies\` Delete or rename `logo_bink.bik` and `logo_frog.bik`

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\setup.ini^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11150/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save\^{[Note 2]} <path-to-game>\game.log^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11150/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Only on/off. Default is 4x. See Anti-aliasing (AA) to increase to 8x.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Cutscenes are locked at 25 fps.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Modify `setup.ini`^[3]
Go to `<path-to-game>\`. Open the `setup.ini` file with Notepad or other text editor. Change `Antialiasing(4)` to `Antialiasing(8)`. Save the changes.

Input

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

Audio

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Bulgarian
Czech
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video	1.5t

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz or AMD Athlon	Intel Pentium III 700 MHz or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 2/3/4/FX ATI Radeon 8500/9000 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible	64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9 compatible
Other	8X CD-ROM	24X CD-ROM

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 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 (11150) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2018-02-06

[3] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]

[gamedir-5] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 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).

[Proton_path_note-6] 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 (11150) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[4] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[5] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[6] The app ID (11150) may differ in some cases.

[7] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[8] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[2018-02-06-4] 3.0 ^3.1 Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2018-02-06

[Note 1]

[3]

[Note 2]

[Note 3]

[1]

[2]

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 {{References}}

Developers

	Frogwares
Publishers
	Ubisoft
	Digital Jesters
Release dates
Windows	September 28, 2004
Reception
Metacritic	68
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Series	Sherlock Holmes