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

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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).

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

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

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

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

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.

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.

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

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video	1.5t

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

↑ 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 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>/11150/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11150) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.