Purpose
Recommend changes to AVG antivirus settings that are interfering with BlueStacks running efficiently.
Benefits
You will be able to use BlueStacks without any slowdown even while AVG antivirus is running on your PC.
Audience
All users who have AVG antivirus running on their PC’s and are experiencing that BlueStacks runs slow.
BlueStacks Versions affected
All versions of BlueStacks
Geo's affected
All Geo's
Steps
AVG slows down BlueStacks due to one of its settings. Please update your AVG antivirus settings as described below:
1. Go to 'Menu' > 'Settings' of AVG-Antivirus as shown below.
2. Click on 'Troubleshooting' on the left-hand side, uncheck the 'Enable hardware assisted virtualization' option, then click on 'OK' to confirm and reboot your PC. You should experience BlueStacks feeling a lot more zippy after this.
We genuinely appreciate your choosing BlueStacks. We hope you enjoy using it. If you have any further questions, please contact us at support at bluestacks dot com. Thank you very much.
Last updated on November 10th, 2017.