Nox App Player

I have been using Nox.. well for many years now, about 4-5 years. Nox has and is the perfect Android emulator for me. I would say that sadly over the years, like Bluestacks, it started adding a lot of ad-games that I do not care for, but.. there is a "but". Unlike BS (and maybe other emulators) it has and still does give you the option to ROOT it.

As soon as I install it, I root it and then first I replace it's launcher to a different launcher of my choice. I remove the bloatware and voila, a still bloat/adware free android emulator. If you look a bit online, you can even find a way to block off the emulator potentially adding more random apps and even disable telemetry.

The fact that this emulator gives me the ability to root it, will always makes this #1 in my book.

Now for an extra reason to like it: one of the most important ones is that it is way more lightweight than BS. Obviously, that makes it even more attractive.

I am not sure about nowadays, but in the past there were rare occasions where a game would work more smoothly on BS than Nox, but in the recent years, be it because of the games I play or because Nox became better, I have not had any problems with Nox not working well with a game I wanted.

As a sidenote, I only mention BS, because I have not used in recent years anything else. Way in the past I tried multiple android emulators, but I have no idea if they still are even around or how they are working now. BS though, a couple friends use it, so I have a faint idea how it is even nowadays.

This was a great app but it started getting buggy after a recent update. It's so bad, that their Facebook page had 2 live tech support "events" yesterday. Support for English users is pretty much non-existent. They haven't replied to emails in over a week. At this point it errors out each launch before I am able to do anything. A complete wipe and reload of the app doesn't help. It also asks you to turn on virtual technology support in your bios, mine is already on. It was a decent app but 8.0.3 is totally worthless. (Win10 gaming laptop 8core i7 2.7ghz 32gig ram, geforce gtx 1070 - waaaay more than recommended system specs)

If support was responsive and had a solution... or even an update that they knew there were issues and working on it, I wouldn't be posting this. Making emulators isn't child's play and I do expect issues. Determining a good one is dependent just as much on how they respond to the inevitable issues that will arise as they have to update the emulator to stay in line with constantly evolving mobile technology as it is on the emulator itself. They are failing for English speakers. The are quite a few active forums that google translates from Chinese (simple) ... but much gets lost in translation so they don't help either.