While the company rates it at eight times the speed of BlueStacks 3, it’s significantly smaller and lighter. That’s why previous versions of BlueStacks tended to chug a bit unless you were running them on a fairly cutting edge PC.īlueStacks 4 is intended to be the solution to these performance issues. It turns out that running Android games on a PC is a pretty resource-hungry task.

We’ll get to those later, but for now let’s take a look at how BlueStacks 4 improves on its predecessors. In case you don’t know, this popular PC gaming client allows you to download games from Google Play onto your desktop computer and play them from the comfort of your own swivel chair, using a keyboard and mouse instead of a touchscreen to control the action.Įxcept you already have a smartphone for that, right? And you already have Steam for PC gaming, so why in the world would you need to cross the streams and play Android games on your computer?

To the uninitiated, it can be difficult to see the point in something like BlueStacks 4.

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