If not already created a 64-Bits instance of Bluestacks, open the Bluestacks Multi-Instance-Manager and create a new instance with following options/settings: Nougat 64-Bit, CPU-Cores 50% according to your available host system cores count (if not sure choose 2 CPU's to be on the safe side - setting can be changed afterwards anyways), RAM like shown with CPU-cores also 50% of your available host system RAM (if not sure choose 2 GB to be on the safe side - setting can be changed afterwards), let resolution on default setting and ensure to set ABI settings to x86 & ARM. 2 GB RAM) will be counterproductive because the host system will again run out of usable memory, resulting in slowing down the host and therefore also the guest emulator systemįor people having problems to run AS (or any other game) smoothly on their system try using following settings:įirst ensure to download/update to the most recent version of BS5: Support Site of Bluestacks 5 incl. Similar with RAM: using emulator on a low-RAM system with only 4 GB of RAM, assigning more than 50% (e.g. So if your host systems runs on a 4-core CPU, don't assign more than 2 cores to the emulator, otherwise your host (windows) system will start struggling and slowing down, resulting in a further decrease of emulator performance

On low-(CPU)core/low-RAM host (system emulator runs on) systems never assign more than 50% of host ressources to the emulator respectively VM. With every emulator, which is basically a virtual machine (VM), there are some rules of thumb: For me it runs like a charm on my office PC, butterly smooth at my rig at home.

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