Real Direct3D 9 on windows provides upto 8192.Ĭan I play The Ultimate Collection on a Mac using a Windows Virtual Machine? No. Wine support for The Sims 2 has been broken for many years due to The Sims 2 requesting 1024 pixel vertex shaders, yet Wine’s Direct3D implementation only providing 256. Aspyr since released the Super Collection and hence only included the Expansion + Stuff Packs they have ported (9/18).ĮA could potentially port & release the Ultimate Collection for modern Macs themselves, but this would likely take alot of work, to then release it for free probably wouldn't make much business sense.Ĭan I play The Ultimate Collection on a Mac via Wine? Since porting those 9 EPs/SPs on disk a few years ago, Aspyr s topped porting expansion packs due to contracting and licensing agreements with EA, as EA now does all PC and Mac ports for games in house (like TS3). Why does the Super Collection only feature half of the Windows Ultimate Collection? NOTE: The on-disk versions of The Sims 2 Mac are not the same as the recently released Super Collection, and do not include the updated features mentioned above. To check the version of OSX you are running click the Apple logo in the top left, and go to About this Mac. No, unless your Mac runs Snow Leopard (10.6) and earlier. Apple dropped support for running PowerPC applications (like the Sims 2) in 10.7 (Lion). ![]() It features a new rendering engine, native support for retina displays, and most importantly works on modern (10.7+) Macs which the on-disk versions don't.Ĭan I buy the Mac version (and any of Aspyr's 6 expansion packs and 3 stuff packs) in a retail store, on disk, and play them on a Mac? It's available in the Mac App Store for £20.99/$29.99. Aspyr (The publisher of the on-disk Mac version) released 6 (of eight) Expansion Packs and 3 (of ten) Stuff packs for the Mac. ![]() Is there a Mac version of The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection? Mac Users have to pay £20.99/$29.99 for half the EPs/SPs. I've had bootcamp on my mac this whole time, I should've just gotten the Ultimate collection years ago.Īnyways, moral of the story- don't waste time and money on the super collection, get the ultimate collection.Windows users (could) get the Ultimate Collection (all EPs/SPs) for free. It's insane! I feel like I'm rediscovering and falling in love with this game all over again. Apartment Life, and Freetime alone add so much to this game! Not to mention the Ikea furniture and HM make CAS and Build/Buy feel much more updated. There is loads of content that you miss out on not having the extra packs. The Ultimate Collection is so so much better than the Super Collection that's offered on mac. ![]() After a couple attempts at installing it and finally getting it to work, I was instantly hooked. So yesterday I finally bit the bullet, I downloaded the true Ultimate Collection. It was great for awhile! But one pack that I did have growing up was Apartment Life, and as time went on I found myself really missing it. I knew it didn't have all the packs, but because I only had a few growing up anyways I figured I'd be fine. ![]() I absolutely love this game and still itch to play it from time to time, and so a while ago I purchased the Super Collection (I play on a Mac so my only option). I grew up playing the sims 2, but only had a few expansion packs.
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