Windows users (could) get the Ultimate Collection (all EPs/SPs) for free. Mac Users have to pay £20.99/$29.99 for half the EPs/SPs.

The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation PC game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-seller computer game, The Sims, which debuted on February 4, 2000. The Sims 2 was first released on September 14, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. A port of the Apple Mac OS X was released on June 13, 2005. There are Eight expansion packs and nine stuff packs released.

Questions: Is there a Mac version of The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection? Yes, it's called the Super Collection. Aspyr (The publisher of the on-disk Mac version) released 6 (of eight) Expansion Packs and 3 (of ten) Stuff packs for the Mac.

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It's available in the for £20.99/$29.99. 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. Can 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? 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).

To check the version of OSX you are running click the Apple logo in the top left, and go to About this Mac. 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. Why does the Super Collection only feature half of the Windows Ultimate Collection? 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). Aspyr since released the Super Collection and hence only included the Expansion + Stuff Packs they have ported (9/18). EA 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.

Can I play [the windows version of] The Ultimate Collection on a Mac via Wine? 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. Real Direct3D 9 on windows provides upto 8192. Can I play [the windows version of] The Ultimate Collection on a Mac using a Windows Virtual Machine? If you have a copy of Windows (XP, Vista, 7, or 8) and either Virtualbox (free), Parallels Desktop (paid), or VMware Fusion (paid), you can attempt to run the game inside a Windows virtual machine. Running any game through a Virtual Machine will likely result in slow graphics performance, if it works at all. Attempting to run the Ultimate Collection with XP in Virtualbox gave me the error: 'Direct3D returned an error: D3DERR_INVALIDCALL! The application will now terminate.'

Same message with Vista. Can I play [the windows version of] The Ultimate Collection on a Mac using Bootcamp?

Bootcamp allows you to dual boot your Mac to run both Windows and OSX. You'll need a copy of Windows (XP, Vista, 7, or 8). Running Windows nativly is the best (and really the only) way of playing all The Sims 2 expansion packs on a Mac. Solutions: • Use Bootcamp to run the Ultimate Collection if you have a copy of Windows. • Purchase the Mac Super Collection and get half the Ultimate Collection.