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Petz Catz 2

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Petz Catz 2
Petz Catz 2 cover
Developers
Yuke's
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows November 13, 2007
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Life sim
Art styles Realistic
Series Petz
Petz Catz 2 on HowLongToBeat
Petz Catz 2 on IGDB
Petz Catz 2 guide on StrategyWiki
Petz Catz 2 on MobyGames
Petz Catz 2 on Wikipedia
Dogz: Your Computer Pet 1995
Oddballz: Your Wacky Computer Petz 1996
Catz: Your Computer Petz 1996
Dogz II: Your Virtual Petz 1997
Catz II: Your Virtual Petz 1997
Dogz 3 1998
Catz 3 1998
Dogz 4 1999
Catz 4 1999
Dogz 5 2002
Catz 5 2002
Dogz 2006
Catz 2006
Horsez 2006
Petz Dogz 2 2007
Petz Catz 2 2007
Petz Horsez 2 (2007) 2007
Petz Horsez 2 (2008) 2008
Petz Horse Club 2008
Petz Sports 2008

Petz Catz 2 is a singleplayer cinematic camera life sim game in the Petz series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Catz.ini[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\jet.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15150/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15150/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Widescreen resolution

Edit Catz.ini[1]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\Catz.ini.
  2. Below [Engine.Window], edit the lines Size=1024, 768 and InternalSize=1920, 1080 to the preferred resolution.

Notes

Hor+ image and HUD.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects and music volume sliders available.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Retail only - 1
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Spanish
Swedish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) Intle Pentium III 800 MHz
AMD K6-III
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Sound (audio device) 16-bit DirectX 9 compliant sound card
Supported Nvidia chipsets: 2/3/4/FX/6/7/8 series
Supported ATI Radeon chipsets: 7000/8000/9000/X series
Supported chipset: Matrox Parhelia


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2025-05-01