BlueStacks is the most popular Android emulator for gaming for a reason. It also offers much faster speed than the Samsung Galaxy 9 smartphone. However, even fast software like BlueStacks lags sometimes. So how to speed up Bluestacks?
There are several things you can try to improve the emulator speed on your PC. With high speeds, you can enjoy your favorite games, no matter how high-definition their graphics are. Before improving BlueStacks speed, make sure you have a good-speed PC. We will show you different methods that you can use to solve BlueStack’s low-performance problem. These below-given settings will make your Bluestacks run faster than before.
1. Adjust Display Settings in BlueStacks:
The first thing you can do is adjust BlueStacks’ display settings. Using too high a display resolution will slow down performance. If you have already increased the screen resolution, you must lower the display settings to the recommended settings.
To fiddle with the display settings, follow the steps mentioned below:
- Launch BlueStacks and on the start screen, find the hamburger menu icon on the top title bar and click on it.
- In the menu that opens, click on the Settings option to open the Settings window.
- The Display tab will already be selected. Choose the recommended resolution of 1600×900.
- In the DPI section, select the 160 DPI option.
Now save and exit Bluestacks and start it again. BlueStacks should now run without any lag.
2. Optimizing and Fixing Engine Settings:
When you use BlueStacks to play high-end games like PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty Mobile on your laptop, you need to ensure that all system resources are allocated to BlueStacks. It’s logical, don’t you think? While you are playing, you can go full screen and stop using other applications. So, there is no harm in allocating all system resources to BlueStacks. As more RAM and CPU cores become available for BlueStacks, the lag you experience will disappear.
You can increase both RAM allocation and CPU cores using the following steps:
- Launch BlueStacks and when the splash screen shows, click on the hamburger menu icon in the top right.
- corner of the title bar to open the settings menu.
- Click on the Settings option to open the Settings Options window. In that window, click on the Engine option in the left panel.
- In the right panel, scroll down to the option that reads “Performance.” Depending on the number of CPU cores.
- you have available, you’ll see a pre-selected option, usually half the number of cores your laptop has.
- Allocated RAM is also shown. Change this value to the maximum available.
- Press the Save button and restart BlueStack.
3. Update Graphics Driver:
Make sure your graphics driver is up to date. If you have NVIDIA, you can use GeForce Experience to make sure the driver is always updated. Yes, it affects the display a lot, but it could be a slow graphics driver, which can cause lag since gaming is very much about graphics. The best thing to do is to set Windows to automatically update drivers when they are available. This can be done by enabling automatic Windows updates. Of course, you can always do it manually as well.
4. Turn Off the Antivirus for the Moment to Speed up the Android Emulator:
Not all of us have PCs with the best specs in the industry. We use average PCs with average performance and some antivirus software is heavy on the system. Even if you’re using lightweight antivirus software, it’s not a bad idea to close/pause the antivirus tool for the time being while using BlueStacks to lighten the workload a bit. It instantly boosts system performance and helps speed up BlueStacks.
5. Close Non-essential Third-Party Programs:
If there are too many third-party programs consuming CPU and memory resources, you may face BlueStack lag issues. To speed up BlueStack, we recommend you close unnecessary programs in Task Manager.
- Right-click an empty space on the taskbar and select Task Manager from the context menu.
- Navigate to the Processes tab and click on the Memory column to sort the active processes.
- Right-click a memory-intensive process and select End Task. Repeat this step to close all memory-consuming processes.
6. Add More RAM to BlueStacks:
Another simple way is to allocate more RAM to BlueStack. Because BlueStack’s lag problem can be caused due to insufficient RAM resources.
- Launch the BlueStacks app on your PC, then click on the Settings button at the top right corner.
- Select Settings in the pop-up window to open the Settings window.
- In the Settings window, navigate to the Engine tab from the left pane.
- Drag the memory handle to the right to increase the amount of RAM allocated to BlueStacks.
Conclusion:
It’s really not that hard to make BlueStacks a bit faster. However, if BlueStacks lags, you should understand that there could be several reasons. One of them is that you are using an old version of BlueStacks. The other reason is that your system does not have enough resources or has only the minimum resources required to run BlueStacks but not the recommended resources. Upgrading your system hardware may be the only solution if your computer resources are insufficient. We hope this guide has helped you to get up to speed with BlueStacks and if you have any queries regarding this article feel free to comment in the comment box.
