Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Developers
	Frogwares
Publishers
	Nacon
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	June 10, 2016
Reception
Metacritic	65
OpenCritic	65
IGDB	67
Taxonomy
Themes	Detective/mystery, Industrial Age, Victorian
Series	Sherlock Holmes

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

The Steam version uses Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

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 - The Devil's Daughter\SH8GAME\Config\
GOG.com	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - The Devil's Daughter GOG\SH8GAME\Config\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/350640/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - The Devil's Daughter\
GOG.com	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - The Devil's Daughter GOG\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/350640/pfx/

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	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Officially not supported, may cause issues.
Ultra-widescreen		Cursor issues when reading a person, pillarboxed cutscenes.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

High frame rate

Arrange frame rate smoothing
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open SH8Engine.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		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
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
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Generic/other controllers

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

Disable mouse smoothing

Disable mouse smoothing
Close the game. Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open SH8Game.ini. Find the section FDK.FDK_GamePlayerController. Set RotationSmoothingFactor_ThirdPerson and RotationSmoothingFactor_FirstPerson to a high value (e.g. 1000). Save changes.

Audio

Audio settings.

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Hungarian				Fan translation.
Italian
Japanese				Added with December 22, 2016 patch.
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter.

Issues fixed

FPS drops due to Depth of Field effect

This will give you better FPS during scenes with heavy usage of the Depth of Field effect, but at the cost of making the DoF effect slightly uglier.

After applying this fix, you will not be able to modify the audio or video settings without having to reapply the fix.

Change DoF Mode[citation needed]

Run the game and ensure the audio and video settings are set to your preference. Then exit the game. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - The Devil's Daughter\SH8Game\Config\ Open SH8SystemSettings.ini. Change DoFMode=1 to DoFMode=0. Set the file to "Read-only" mode by right clicking it and selecting "Properties". You can launch the game and the framerate should improve. If you want to change the audio or video settings later, you will need uncheck "Read-only" on the above file, change the settings in-game, exit the game, and reapply this fix.

Heavy stuttering in Windows 8 and above

Setting the game to Windows 7 compatibility mode may alleviate some of the stuttering issues.^{[citation needed]}

Set Windows 7 Compatibility mode[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\Binaries\Win64\ To set the compatibility mode, right click Sherlock.exe, select properties. Go to the compatibility tab, select "Windows 7" from the drop down list.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3 3.6 GHz AMD FX Series 4.2 GHz Quad-Core	Intel Core i5-2100 3.1 GHz AMD A8-7600 3.1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	6 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 AMD Radeon HD 7790 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 AMD Radeon R9 270X 2 GB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible