Overview

BlueStacks App Player for Windows is a great Android emulator that supports most of the common games on Google Play. In this tutorial I will give you a few tips how to optimize BlueStacks App Player for Windows.

Download and Install BlueStacks App Player

1. Go to http://www.bluestacks.com/ and download BlueStacks App Player
2. Open BlueStacks App Player and register your GMail Account details
3. Close BlueStacks

Adjust BlueStacks RAM (Memory)

BlueStacks App Player comes with a default of 768MB RAM.

1. Open ‘regedit’: Start->Run->regedit
2. Navigate to: ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/BlueStacks/Guests/Android’
3. Double click the value ‘Memory’
4. Change Base to Decimal
5. Input your desired RAM amount DO NOT USE MORE THEN HALF OF YOUR PHYSICAL RAM!! For example: If you have 4GB of RAM input 2GB: ‘2048’

Flickering Issue with NVidia Display Adapter

Sometimes with NVidia GPUs there is an issue that causes the screen to flicker. CHANGE THIS ONLY IF YOUR BLUESTACKS APP IS FLICKERING!!

1. Open NVidia Control Panel and navigate to ‘Manage 3D Settings’
2. Select tab ‘Program Settings’
3. Click Add and Select ‘BlueStacks Frontend’
4. Scroll down to ‘Threaded optimization’ and change it to ‘Off’

BlueStacks Process priority

Increase BlueStacks Process priorities in Task Manager:

1. Open Task Manager and go to Details tab
2. Right-Click ‘HD-Frontend’ and change priority to Above-Normal

Enjoy!!