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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened - Remastered

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This page is for the 2008 remaster. For the original release, see Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. For the remake, see Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023).

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened - Remastered
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened - Remastered cover
Developers
Frogwares
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Release dates
Windows September 23, 2008
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person, Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control, Point and select
Genres Adventure
Themes Detective/mystery, Lovecraftian, Victorian, Europe
Series Sherlock Holmes
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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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
TAGES v5.5 DRM
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Renamed to Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008).
Windows
Steam
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Renamed to Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008).
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
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Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Windows

Demo

Free demo: steam://install/7290.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename the logo folder[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Delete or rename the logo folder.

Notes

The splash screen will still be shown.

Skip splash screens

Edit user.ini[2]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\user.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  2. Delete the following lines:
    • splash_screen_start_01_bg = external_logo_frogwares_bg
    • splash_screen_start_02_bg = external_logo_frogwares_bg
    • splash_screen_start_03_bg = logo_ageia
  3. Save the file.

Improve performance, remove mouse/camera smoothing

Edit setup.ini
Running the game in windowed mode with vsync off improves overall performance and removes the camera acceleration/deceleration effect which causes motion sickness in some players. This is a highly recommended tweak.
  1. Go to %APPDATA%\Games\<Localized sherlock holmes - the awakened - remastered>.
  2. Open the setup.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Set vSync = None
  4. Set windowMode = YES

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\game.ini[Note 1]
%APPDATA%\Games\<Localized sherlock holmes - the awakened - remastered>\setup.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11140/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Games\<Localized sherlock holmes - the awakened - remastered>\save\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11140/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu (1/2).
In-game options menu (1/2).
In-game options menu (2/2).
In-game options menu (2/2).

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Gameplay is Vert-. Menu, inventory, text, and sprites are stretched 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Gameplay is Vert-. Menu, inventory, text, and sprites are stretched 4:3. Enable windowed mode, increase FOV to compensate for Vert- behavior.[3]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Default is 73° horizontal.[1] See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
If windowed mode is enabled and the desktop resolution matches the ingame resolution, borderless mode is used by default.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 8x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MSAA up to 8x.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Automatic if the game is run in windowed mode
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

Modify game.ini[1]
At higher FOV settings, cutscenes have minor display issues; occasionally characters appear and disappear at the edges of the screen, and in some cutscenes outside of the the map can be seen during panning shots. This is entirely cosmetic and the scripts run just fine.
  1. Go to <path-to-game>.
  2. Open the game.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Change the values of fov = 73 and camera_fov = 73 to desired number.
  4. Save the changes and launch the game.

Windowed

Modify setup.ini[4]
Built-in anti-aliasing is disabled in windowed mode. See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
  1. Go to %APPDATA%\Games\<Localized sherlock holmes - the awakened - remastered>.
  2. Open the setup.ini file with Notepad or other text editor..
  3. Change the values of windowMode to NO.
  4. Save the changes and launch the game.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Audio

External language settings (GOG.com version).
External language settings (GOG.com version).

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Voice, Music, Effects, Ambient
Surround sound
7.1 Surround[5]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Included in retail version. Digital copies can be converted.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.3 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/11140/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11140) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2018-02-21
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-04-18
  3. Verified by User:Mastan on 2023-10-02
    Tested at 3440x1440 and 3840x1080 custom resolutions.
  4. Verified by User:Cane on 2023-09-26
  5. Verified by User:Mastan on 2023-10-02
    Tested in 7.1 using Special K.