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The Sims Pet Stories

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The Sims Pet Stories
The Sims Pet Stories cover
Developers
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
The Sims Pet Stories guide on StrategyWiki
The Sims Pet Stories on MobyGames
The Sims Pet 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 Stories
Subseries of The Sims
The Sims Life Stories 2007
The Sims Pet Stories 2007
The Sims Castaway Stories 2008

Key points

Runs well on low-end hardware, especially laptops and integrated graphic cards.
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)
The Sims Wiki

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac App Store
Icon overlay.png
macOS (OS X)
The Mac App Store includes native 4K support, bug fixes and improved performance.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\TSData\Res\Config[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
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

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Speech is fictional language called Simlish.
Speech is subtitled with generic icons.
Brazilian Portuguese
Czech
Danish
French
Finnish
German
Hungarian
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

Black Square Under Sim

Download Sim Shadow Fix
  1. Go here and download the file that suits your preferences (0.2 shadows are more opaque, 0.4 more transparent and 0.3 are in between).
  2. Extract the .package file inside the zip file you downloaded to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims™ Pet Stories\Downloads\
If you're using an Intel HD Graphics card, the author recommends downloading the xReallyNotMisty versions of the fix.
If the Downloads folder is missing, create it.
If your installation is in an language other than English, the The Sims™ Pet Stories folder will probably have the localized name instead.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
32-bit only.[1]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
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
Other 8x CD-ROM Drive
macOS (OS X)
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

  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).

References