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Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring

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Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring
Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring cover
Developers
Frogwares
Publishers
Ubisoft
Digital Jesters
Release dates
Windows September 28, 2004
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General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc v3.0 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
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]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies\
  2. 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 settings

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

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Anti-aliasing (AA)

Improve anti-aliasing[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\
  2. Open setup.ini
  3. Change Antialiasing(4) to Antialiasing(8)
  4. Save changes.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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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
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References