mister sparkle

so you mean that initially the first boot up with NAM will take long, but after that booting up the city will not? or what does "subsequent loads of city tiles" mean? because i installed NAM on a fresh SC4 installation without any other plugins, and it takes 5 minutes to load into a just created city (with stuff to load, as there is nothing built yet). I just want to know if this will get better, because i am at a loss here. thanks in advance!

i downloaded and installed NAM 44 and I gotta say, it was a nightmare. 1. the current readme says if you own the Steam version, you do not need to patch. That is wrong. If you do not patch, you will get a CTD. you will manually need to patch via the patch exe that comes with NAM (manually because see 2.) 2. the .bat executable does not work when run "as Admin" (as was also suggested here in comments), but then will result in the error that the patch exe could not be found in the NAM directory, while it is of course clearly there. you have to run the .bat with double click, not with "run as admin" - this is completely counterintuitive. 3. when I have NAM finally installed, it takes ten minutes (clean SC4 install, no other plugins whatsoever) to open/create a city on a lesser (2 year old) work laptop, and still 6 minutes on a dedicated gaming laptop. this is supposed to get better AFTER the first boot up /w NAM, as things to get loaded in for the first time, I understand? but when will it get better, as with my second and third boot up it still took so long?

Can I see a pair of tights on the clothesline? Very nice work!