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'''General information''' | '''General information''' |
Latest revision as of 13:07, 9 April 2024
Developers | |
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Maxis | |
macOS (OS X) | Aspyr Media |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
OS X | Aspyr Media |
Engines | |
The Sims 2 Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 19, 2007 |
macOS (OS X) | September 10, 2007 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 67 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Life sim |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | The Sims Stories |
The Sims Stories | |
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Subseries of The Sims | |
The Sims Life Stories | 2007 |
The Sims Pet Stories | 2007 |
The Sims Castaway Stories | 2008 |
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 Pet Stories is a singleplayer bird's-eye view life sim game in the The Sims Stories series.
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.
General information
- Official Website (OS X)
- Answer HQ for The Sims series at EA.com
- Answer HQ for The Sims series at EA.com (OS X)
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SecuROM 7 DRM | |||
Mac App Store (unavailable) | ||||
Origin (unavailable) |
- The Mac App Store includes native 4K support, bug fixes and improved performance.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\TSData\Res\Config[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims™ Pet Stories\ |
macOS (OS X) |
- The final folder may have a localized name depending on which language you installed the game
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Origin | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | By default, resolutions up to 1280x720 can be selected. For more widescreen resolutions, see Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | See 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) | Smooth Edges slider. See Anti-aliasing (AA) for modern system compatibility. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Widescreen resolution
- The game's maximum default resolution is 1600x1200. For higher resolutions, do the following.
Manual resolution fix |
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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 (FOV)
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%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims™ Castaway Stories\Cameras
Anti-aliasing (AA)
- If the "Edge Smoothing" slider is greyed out in-game, then it is likely that the game cannot determine how much VRAM the GPU has and is defaulting to its failsafe of 32 MB.
Raise amount of fallback value[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Alternative fix |
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Vertical sync (Vsync)
- Toggling Vsync can cause the game to hang.[citation needed]
Vsync can only be toggled using the cheat console (Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C) and using either the 'vsync off' or 'vsync on' command.
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Voices, Sound Effects, Music, Ambient and Audio Quality sliders | |
Surround sound | 4.0 and 5.1 | |
Subtitles | No intelligible dialog. All in-game dialog uses the fictional Simlish language. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Game 'forgets' it does not have the focus when leaving loading screens | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | Speech is fictional language called Simlish. Speech is subtitled with generic icons. |
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Czech | ||||
Danish | ||||
Finnish | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | ||||
Norwegian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Issues fixed
Black square under Sim
Download Sim Shadow Fix |
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Game stuck in 800x600 resolution
- Occurs because the game fails to detect the video card correctly.
Edit Graphics Rules.sgr |
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option ScreenModeResolution setting $Low uintProp maxResWidth 1280 uintProp maxResHeight 1024 uintProp defaultResWidth 800 uintProp defaultResHeight 600
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0c | |
Shader Model support | 2.0 |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) | 32-bit only.[1] |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP | Vista |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | 3 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 1 GB (Vista) |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2.7 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Mobility Radeon 7500/ATI Radeon 7500 Nvidia GeForce 2 Series/GeForce Go Series GeForce FX Series/Nvidia Quadro Series 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible | Nvidia GeForce 6600 ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB of VRAM |
Other | 8x CD-ROM Drive |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum[2] | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.9.5 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 8800 series AMD Radeon HD 3870 Intel HD Graphics 3000 256 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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).
References
- ↑ MacOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions – Aspyr Support - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ The Sims™ 2 Pet Stories - Aspyr - last accessed on 9 June 2023