Despite being a popular Android emulator, BlueStacks (old versions) has been criticized as a "sluggish" operation. The following article will guide you how to fix BlueStack slow and speed up BlueStacks by increasing the amount of RAM for BlueStacks.
Although popular, this emulator also has certain limitations, for example:
Check the amount of RAM that BlueStacks is using (here is 1609)
Step 4: We can adjust the amount of RAM provided for BlueStacks, however, do not share more than 50% of the computer's RAM.
If you do not remember, do not know how much the computer has? Open the Run dialog box , enter dxdiag in Open and then OK .
At the new interface, you can see the total amount of RAM of the computer below.
Computer with 4GB RAM
Step 5: Return to Registry Editor, you do the following to add more RAM for the BlueStacks emulator:
Double click the left mouse button on Memory .
A new window appears, tick Decimal , enter value into Value data, then OK.
Shut down the entire application, save the session and restart the computer.
You can also right-click on Memory and select Modify to do it
In addition, the following actions can be taken to help BlueStacks run faster. We turn on this simulator, wait for it to run completely then press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open the Windows Task Manager dialog box / select the Processes tab, then:
Find and right-click on the items: HD-adb.exe, HD-Agent.exe, HD-BlockDevice.exe, HD-Frontend.exe, HD-Service.exe.
Select Set Priority / Above Normal.
For Windows 7 operating system
Click Change priority to confirm.
Or if you are using Windows 8 operating system, open Task Manager and go to Details tab , then right-click the corresponding BlueStacks and select Set priority / Above normal.
After this, we restart the computer to save changes and turn BlueStacks back on to compare the results. A word of advice for those who are not experienced with the emulators, if your computer is configured strong enough and used to use BlueStacks, there will be no problem, if not, you can change and Switch to Droid4X installation . This is also a pretty good Android emulator, high speed, lightweight installer and especially does not require high configuration like BlueStacks.