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cold_arctus

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There is a tool called CompactGUI - basically a GUI for a built-in file compression mechanics in Windows with some extra compression settings. You unpack the game, then you feed a folder to this program and it tries to compress it using NTFS compression. Works great on some games (games on Unity normally become half the size), not so good on others. With The Twist, it's a 74% reduction in size, just did it. The program skips very small or uncompressible files. Imagine how much faster it should load now that it has to read only 3 GB instead of 12.
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While I usually say there's no way to compress it, as I didn't know about this tool.
If under compression the game play as it should, I'm willing to place this in the useful links post.
Sorry for digging this up. Would it be possible to upload the compressed version?

I don't have access to a native Windows 10 computer to compress it myself otherwise I would to it.

I also requested a compression in the official request-compression thread, but non of them wants to try it.
 

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If I understood the documentation about CompactGUI correctly, then it uses the windows' filesystem compression API selectively for folders and files (instead of whole drives).
If this is correct, then it's not possible to make a downloadable compressed archive as the compression in being made "in-place" and can't be transferred to another PC.
In other words, if you want to compress the game, you have to manually do it by yourselves (by downloading the tool or using Window's integrated command-line compression utility, which CompatGUI uses)
 

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Sorry for digging this up. Would it be possible to upload the compressed version?

I don't have access to a native Windows 10 computer to compress it myself otherwise I would to it.

I also requested a compression in the official request-compression thread, but non of them wants to try it.
If I understood the documentation about CompactGUI correctly, then it uses the windows' filesystem compression API selectively for folders and files (instead of whole drives).
If this is correct, then it's not possible to make a downloadable compressed archive as the compression in being made "in-place" and can't be transferred to another PC.
In other words, if you want to compress the game, you have to manually do it by yourselves (by downloading the tool or using Window's integrated command-line compression utility, which CompatGUI uses)
And it looks like if anyone tries to compress the folder you compressed with CompactGUI and then extract it, it will just extract it to its normal size.
Yeah, as darlic said, if you want to compress the game, you're going to have to compress it yourself
 
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cold_arctus

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If I understood the documentation about CompactGUI correctly, then it uses the windows' filesystem compression API selectively for folders and files (instead of whole drives).
If this is correct, then it's not possible to make a downloadable compressed archive as the compression in being made "in-place" and can't be transferred to another PC.
In other words, if you want to compress the game, you have to manually do it by yourselves (by downloading the tool or using Window's integrated command-line compression utility, which CompatGUI uses)
Thanks for explaining it for a dummy like me!! :D
 
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If I understood the documentation about CompactGUI correctly, then it uses the windows' filesystem compression API selectively for folders and files (instead of whole drives).
If this is correct, then it's not possible to make a downloadable compressed archive as the compression in being made "in-place" and can't be transferred to another PC.
In other words, if you want to compress the game, you have to manually do it by yourselves (by downloading the tool or using Window's integrated command-line compression utility, which CompatGUI uses)

sorry but it doesn't work i try in software it show the folder is compress but when i check the folder is same 12 gb
 

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I thought the same, but if you bring up the properties of the folder, "Size On Disk" should give you a different size.
Wow, that is a big compression ratio, didn't expect it to work so well.
I was wondering, did you have any noticeable improvement on loading times after the compression?
 

Anon4321

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Wow, that is a big compression ratio, didn't expect it to work so well.
I was wondering, did you have any noticeable improvement on loading times after the compression?
Just tested it out, didn't notice anything different, same as before.
I think while it might have compressed it, I believe the files still retain their original size in some form.

but I might not be the best person to test it, since my system consists of
An RTX 2080Ti and 32GB of Ram
If there is going to be a difference, then we would need someone with a much less powerful system.
 
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Just tested it out, didn't notice anything difference, same as before.
I think while it might have compressed it, I believe the files still retain their original size in some form.

but I might not be the best person to test it, since my system consists of
An RTX 2080Ti and 32GB of Ram
If there is going to be a difference, then we would need someone with a much less powerful system.
I have 1050 and 16gb ram, it runs smoothly. I used to have gtx 630 and 8gb ram, with these hardwares I had to change the settings to low quality.
 
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I'm stuck at Danielle 75, which seems to be the "sweet spot" where I dont get points from the beach or park event and she doesnt show me her tits.
Is this a known bug or is there an event I have not found? I will go ahead and cheat the 5 points to 80, but Im curious to know.
 

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I'm stuck at Danielle 75, which seems to be the "sweet spot" where I dont get points from the beach or park event and she doesnt show me her tits.
Is this a known bug or is there an event I have not found? I will go ahead and cheat the 5 points to 80, but Im curious to know.
Are you following the walkthrough, what step are you at?
Danielle starts 0.18 and reaches 80 at the end of 0.20
 
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How can i trigger the scence where janice says latex only? I've done everthing and when i enter the bedroom it still not trigger
 

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I'm stuck at Danielle 75, which seems to be the "sweet spot" where I dont get points from the beach or park event and she doesnt show me her tits.
Is this a known bug or is there an event I have not found? I will go ahead and cheat the 5 points to 80, but Im curious to know.
To reach 80 with Danielle
you need to have done the following

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Any solution ?
Nothing yet and most likely we'll have to wait for the update for a fix.
but thankfully it not an important scene to progress in the game.

You can try and see if you can get it to trigger with an older version like 0.38 which you can download from the OP
 

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REGARDING THE "LATEX ONLY NIGHT" SCENE
There seems to be an issue triggering it with 0.39

I Just tried it with 0.38 and managed to get on the 2nd night.
 
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REGARDING THE "LATEX ONLY NIGHT" SCENE
There seems to be an issue triggering it with 0.39
Can confirm. Been trying to trigger that one for ages [0.39]. Have repeated all the latex related steps in order. No luck.
 
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