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Latest revision as of 17:07, 22 April 2023

Sherlock Holmes
and the Hound of the Baskervilles
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles cover
Developers
Waterlily Games
Publishers
Frogwares
Release dates
Windows November 11, 2010
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Genres Hidden object
Themes Detective/mystery
Series Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles on HowLongToBeat
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles on IGDB
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles on MobyGames
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
DRM details are not known
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
Icon overlay.png
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip splash screens

Edit user.ini[1]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\user.ini.
  2. Delete the following lines:
    • splash_screen_start_01_bg = waterlily_bg
    • splash_screen_start_02_bg = waterlily_bg
  3. Save the file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Frogwares\<Localized Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles>\setup.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/209230/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Frogwares\<Localized Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles>\save\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/209230/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Native aspect ratio is 5:4 (1280x1024). Otherwise image is stretched.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Resolution can be set, but image will be stretched. Game art is not 4k.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

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
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Effects, Voice
Surround sound
Subtitles
Always on.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation, for GOG.com and Steam version
Italian
Japanese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

Game crashes after splash screen

Remove save folder[2]
  1. Go to %APPDATA%\Frogwares\<Localized Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles>\.
  2. Rename or remove save folder.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

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

References