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GTI Guy

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #1

I play a star wars game on my phone and it drains my battery, mostly grinding to get more stuff. LOL

Anyways I'd like to do some of this grinding on my PC while I work instead of burning my phone battery. What's the best emulator for Android on Windows. Would prefer it to be free and without spyware/bloatware.

 

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Brakke

Banned

• Jun 14, 2016

• #2

I've never used one but just in the last couple days my friends were talking about genymotion and MeMU.

Demerits given to Bluestacks.

 

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Kysen

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #3

Android emulator as part of the SDK, been a while since I used it. Not sure if you can use it standalone though.

 

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GTI Guy

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #4

Brakke said:

I've never used one but just in the last couple days my friends were talking about genymotion and MeMU.

Demerits given to Bluestacks.

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MeMu looks pretty good. Will check it out thanks!

 

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GTI Guy

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #5

GTI Guy said:

MeMu looks pretty good. Will check it out thanks!

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That didn't end well. Installed MeMu and got BSOD on my Win10 machine. Needless to say that's uninstalled now.

I guess Bluestacks is next.

 

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Glass Shark

Banned

• Jun 14, 2016

• #6

I recently tried a bunch of them and honestly most of them are bad and filled with adware. I never found one I truly liked. BlueStacks was good until recently.

 

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CrunchyB

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #7

I use ARC Welder, which is a Chrome app.

 

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Familienoberhauptvogel

Banned

• Jun 14, 2016

• #8

I tried Bluestacks, DuOS and Andy just recently and Andy was by far the most competent package.

 

eddie4

Genuinely Generous

• Jun 14, 2016

• #9

I use Windroy. It runs smoothly because it actually uses the windows kernel. Although you have to side load apk's or download and use Google Play, But it runs anything you throw at it.

 

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Zhengi

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #10

Droid4x.

 

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GTI Guy

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #11

Damn bluestacks also created a BSOD on my machine...I wonder if something else is going on....sigh...not in the mood to troubleshoot this crap.

Maybe I'll just need to go down the recommendations until I find an app that doesn't blow up my PC.

 

eddie4

Genuinely Generous

• Jun 14, 2016

• #12

GTI Guy said:

Damn bluestacks also created a BSOD on my machine...I wonder if something else is going on....sigh...not in the mood to troubleshoot this crap.

Maybe I'll just need to go down the recommendations until I find an app that doesn't blow up my PC.

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I've always had issues with bluestacks.

 

MaulerX

Member

• Jun 14, 2016

• #13

I personally use amiduos and it's been pretty good but I'm open to trying other ones if they're better.

 

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213372bu

Banned

• Jun 14, 2016

• #14

Blue stacks has improved by millions since it was first a thing.

It's really robust and has features that make it better than a phone with Android IMO.

Picture-in-picture multi-tasking bug-reports etc. etc.