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Puzzles and Survival mobile game on BlueStacks X from Windows 10 - Minimum Settings

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I installed BlueStacks X to try and run some mobile games from my Windows 10 desktop, for purposes of saving my phone battery from being drained so quickly.  My initial experience was a little rocky as games kept crashing.  After some tweaking I was able to find some stability.  If you have plenty of resources on your desktop, great, go ahead and use the Performance setting and have everything at High.  I didn't have that luxury on my Windows 10 desktop with an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU and 16 GB RAM, as I have multiple apps running including virtual machines (on a similar note, I did try out an Android 9 x86 VM from OS Boxes  but most Android games are ARM-based and wouldn't install).  I read that BlueStacks will work because it's emulating ARM, but this does come at a performance cost. Here is a screenshot of the strategy game Puzzles and Survival running in BlueStacks: Initially, I had tried to get it to run using Medium (2 CPU) and 2 GB of RAM, but the game kept crashing and was