How to play The Sims 2: Apartment Pets on Mac
Game summary
Your Sims are leaving the suburbs for the hustle and bustle of apartment life! They're moving into a apartment building full of interesting neighbors and a wide variety of pets. Your Sim can adopt pets of their own to play with and care for. As the manager of the on-site pet spa, your Sim can earn Simoleons by making sure that the local pets get the right treatments to keep them-and their owners-happy. From loveable cats and dogs to all-new exotic animals including slithery snakes, colorful birds, and cuddly rabbits, your Sim will experience all the hilarious unpredictability of owning pets while enjoying their exciting new apartment lifestyle!
First released: Aug 2008
Play The Sims 2: Apartment Pets on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play The Sims 2: Apartment Pets on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
The Sims 2: Apartment Pets installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install The Sims 2: Apartment Pets like you would on any PC.
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