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The Sims Castaway Stories

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Runs well on Low-End Hardware, especially Laptops
This game uses a slightly modified version of the The Sims 2: Bon Voyage engine and most fixes and some mods for it also work here.
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The Sims Castaway Stories
The Sims Castaway Stories cover
Developers
Maxis
Publishers
Electronic Arts
OS X Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows January 29, 2008
macOS (OS X) March 17, 2008
The Sims Castaway Stories on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
The Sims
Subseries of Sim
The Sims 2000
The Sims Online 2002
The Sims 2 2004
The Sims Stories (series)
MySims 2008
The Sims 3 2009
The Sims Medieval 2011
The Sims 4 2014

Availability

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Game data

In-game General settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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Save game data location

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Video settings

In-Game Graphics settings

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Widescreen resolution

The game's maximum default resolution is 1600x1200. For higher resolutions you need to edit the following file:

Electronic Arts\The Sims Castaway Stories\TSData\Res\Config\Graphics Rules.sgr

Set maxResWidth and maxResHeight to your display's native width and height, or copy/paste the following: 

option ScreenModeResolution
setting $Low
uintProp maxResWidth 2560
uintProp maxResHeight 1600
uintProp defaultResWidth 800
uintProp defaultResHeight 600

setting $Medium
uintProp maxResWidth 2560
uintProp maxResHeight 1600
uintProp defaultResWidth 1024
uintProp defaultResHeight 768

setting $High
uintProp maxResWidth 2560
uintProp maxResHeight 1600
uintProp defaultResWidth 1024
uintProp defaultResHeight 768
end

Field of View Modification

Each of the game's cameras can have their FOV set independently using the fov parameter in their Camera Settings files, which are contained in %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims™ Castaway Stories\Cameras.

Toggling Vsync

Toggling Vsync can cause the game to hang.

Vsync can only be toggled using the Cheat Console (Control + ⇧ Shift + C) and using either the 'vsync off' or 'vsync on' command.

Input settings

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Audio settings

In-Game Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

System requirements
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP / Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 Ghz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.9 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 7500 / Mobility Radeon 7500
nVidia GeForce 2 Series / GeForce Go Series
Supported Non-T&L Cards (e.g. Radeon VE Series and Intel Extreme 82845) require an additional 256 MB of System Memory
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

References