Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments


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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
Epic Games Store		DRM-free when launched from the executable.^[1]

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

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Set launch options
Use the `-nostartupmovies` command line argument.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - Crimes and Punishments\SH7Game\Config\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/241260/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - Crimes and Punishments\SH7Game\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/241260/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud

Video

Video Settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Vert- gameplay, pillarboxed cutscenes and dialogue. Use the PCGW community tool or see the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen		Vert- gameplay, pillarboxed cutscenes and dialogue. Use the PCGW community tool or see the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	Use the PCGW community tool or see the WSGF entry.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	No dedicated option. See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)	MLAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS	62 FPS limit.
120+ FPS	See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Changing anisotropy amount^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration files location. Open `SH7SystemSettings.ini`. Change `MaxAnisotropy` under `SystemSettings` section to desired amount (e.g. `0`, `16` etc.) Save changes.

High frame rate

Changing framerate cap^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration files location. Open `SH7Engine.ini`. Change `SmoothFrameRate` under `Engine.Engine` section to `False` in order to completely disable frame rate smoothing. Change `MaxSmoothedFrameRate` under `Engine.Engine` section to to the value that is desired to cap the frame rate (e.g. `122`, `146` etc.) Save changes.

Input

Gameplay Settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Can be changed in `SH7Input.ini`
Mouse acceleration		Negative mouse acceleration on low sensitivity
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Disable mouse smoothing

Edit configuration file^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration files location. Open `SH7Input.ini`. Find `bEnableMouseSmoothing` Change value to: `bEnableMouseSmoothing=False`

Audio

Audio Settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian

Issues fixed

Fix "Graphics card not supported" error

Graphics card not supported eror.

Set launch options
Use the `-nosettingslimit` command line argument.

White Screen

Set launch options
Use the `-nosettingslimit -dx9` command line argument.

Flickering/Blocky Textures

Set launch options
Right click on Steam game and properties and add -dx9 to command line. On GOG right click game, manage installation, configure, features, features, check custom arguments and add argument-dx9 to your custom made exe.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9, 11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Vista SP2	7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel or AMD Dual Core 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	14 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 3850 Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

↑ ^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>/241260/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (241260) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:Rose on 2020-04-10
Closed the launcher, renamed its program folder and the one in %LOCALAPPDATA% before launching the game through Sherlock.exe.

[Proton_path_note-2] 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>/241260/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (241260) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Verified by User:Rose on 2020-04-10
Closed the launcher, renamed its program folder and the one in %LOCALAPPDATA% before launching the game through Sherlock.exe.

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[Note 1]

Developers

	Frogwares
Publishers
	Frogwares
Formerly	Focus Home Interactive
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	September 29, 2014
Reception
Metacritic	77
OpenCritic	76
IGDB	75
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Perspectives	Third-person, First-person
Genres	Adventure
Themes	Detective/mystery, Victorian
Series	Sherlock Holmes