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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter cover
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
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Epic Games Store
Epic Games Launcher
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
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Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Humble Store (unavailable)
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Windows
The Steam version uses Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[1]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Set launch options[2]

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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/350640/pfx/[Note 1]

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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/350640/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.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Officially not supported, may cause issues.[3]
Ultra-widescreen
Cursor issues when reading a person, pillarboxed cutscenes.[4]
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[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open SH8Engine.ini.
  3. Change SmoothFrameRate under Engine.Engine section to False in order to completely disable frame rate smoothing.
  4. Change MaxSmoothedFrameRate under Engine.Engine section to to the value that is desired to cap the frame rate (e.g. 122, 146 etc.)
  5. Save changes.

Input

Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

Disable mouse smoothing

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

Audio

Audio settings.
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.[5]
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

VR support

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]
  1. Run the game and ensure the audio and video settings are set to your preference. Then exit the game.
  2. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sherlock Holmes - The Devil's Daughter\SH8Game\Config\
  3. Open SH8SystemSettings.ini.
  4. Change DoFMode=1 to DoFMode=0.
  5. Set the file to "Read-only" mode by right clicking it and selecting "Properties".
  6. 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]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Binaries\Win64\
  2. To set the compatibility mode, right click Sherlock.exe, select properties.
  3. 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
System memory (RAM) 6 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
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


Notes

  1. 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>/350640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (350640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References