Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.


Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
This page is a stub: it lacks content and/or basic article components. You can help to expand this page by adding an image or additional information.
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy cover
Developers
Frogwares
Publishers
Wanadoo
The Adventure Company
Russia 1C Company
Engines
Phoenix VR
Release dates
Windows December 29, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 61
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Modes Singleplayer
Genres Adventure
Themes Detective/mystery
Series Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy on HowLongToBeat
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy on IGDB
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy on MobyGames
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy 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

Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy is a singleplayer adventure game in the Sherlock Holmes series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
Freeware Originally sold commercially, but now completely free to own.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\.
  2. Delete or rename logos.4xm.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

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
No audio settings.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
O Mistério da Múmia — Sherlock Holmes”.
Russian

Issues fixed

Crash during a cutscene

If you experience a game crash after a cutscene (for example Level 3 cutscene), remember to save the game often and apply the fixes below.

Crashing cutscene fix[2]
  1. Reinstall the game on C: drive
  2. Go to the installation folder and set a compatibility mode with Windows XP SP3.
  3. Press Space to skip the cutscene.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 130 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/11130/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11130) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  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).

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-18
  2. Steam Community - last accessed on 28 May 2023