Bluestacks lagging so much it's unusable

[Snurresprett]

Main PC:

Win7 x64
8 GB RAM
GTX 970
i7 4770K 4.2 GHz

Installed a fresh version of Win 7 x32 in a Virtualbox, installed the guest addon and the Direct 3D thing. Installed Bluestacks with no issues. I can use the virutalbox just fine but when I start Bluestacks it does start but then it keeps loading forever and the virtual PC starts lagging as SPAM_SEARCH and the CPU usage goes up to 100% and stays there. The CPU usage on the main PC is just sitting stable at around 20%. I can't add more cores to the virtual machine...

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[Snurresprett]

I have enabled virtualization in my BIOS. Still the CPU usage in the virtual PC is 100% and on the main PC it's only 20%. I need to give more CPU power to the virtual PC.

[socratis]

Are you trying to run a virtualization software inside a virtual machine? If so, keep in mind that nested virtualization is not supported in VirtualBox. Any particular reason why you're not running Bluestacks directly on your Windows host?

installed the guest addon and the Direct 3D thing

I guess by "guest addon" you mean the Guest Additions, but what exactly do you mean by the "Direct 3D thing"?

[Snurresprett]

Are you trying to run a virtualization software inside a virtual machine? If so, keep in mind that nested virtualization is not supported in VirtualBox. Any particular reason why you're not running Bluestacks directly on your Windows host?

installed the guest addon and the Direct 3D thing

I guess by "guest addon" you mean the Guest Additions, but what exactly do you mean by the "Direct 3D thing"?

Yes, that's right. 2D and 3D acceleration is checked and I checked the 3D thing during the installation of Guest Additions. It was a checkbox for some 3D (censored)

[socratis]

You still didn't answer the first part of my questions...

Are you trying to run a virtualization software inside a virtual machine? If so, keep in mind that nested virtualization is not supported in VirtualBox. Any particular reason why you're not running Bluestacks directly on your Windows host?

[Snurresprett]

You still didn't answer the first part of my questions...

Are you trying to run a virtualization software inside a virtual machine? If so, keep in mind that nested virtualization is not supported in VirtualBox. Any particular reason why you're not running Bluestacks directly on your Windows host?

Yes, I am trying to run BlueStacks inside the virtualbox. I want to run multiple Bluestacks instances, that's why I am running it on a virtual machine.

[mpack]

I see no VM log. With the VM fully shut down, right click it in GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.

[Snurresprett]

I see no VM log. With the VM fully shut down, right click it in GUI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.

Ok, here it is: filedropper com/win7-2015-12-31-00-32-13

[loukingjr]

you are supposed to attach it to your post. not supply a link. use the upload attachment tab at the bottom of the message area.

[Snurresprett]

you are supposed to attach it to your post. not supply a link. use the upload attachment tab at the bottom of the message area.

[mpack]

Thanks. The only thing that jumps out at me is that you assign 3 out of 4 cores to the VM. Bear in mind that the VM is a hardware simulation which runs on the host, so if you starve the host of CPU then the VM will run slowly. I'd split it evenly 2:2.

Secondly, if this is a new install then you should be aware that new Windows installations often run slowly for a while, because this is when they are doing a lot of update checking, disk indexing etc.

That all said, if BlueStacks has a big performance issue on some PCs then personally I'd be knocking on the Bluestacks door, not the people who make the PC.

[Snurresprett]

Thanks. The only thing that jumps out at me is that you assign 3 out of 4 cores to the VM. Bear in mind that the VM is a hardware simulation which runs on the host, so if you starve the host of CPU then the VM will run slowly. I'd split it evenly 2:2.

Secondly, if this is a new install then you should be aware that new Windows installations often run slowly for a while, because this is when they are doing a lot of update checking, disk indexing etc.

That all said, if BlueStacks has a big performance issue on some PCs then personally I'd be knocking on the Bluestacks door, not the people who make the PC.

I initially only had 1 core assigned for the VM. Nothing changed when I increased the cores. I have no Windows updates running on the VM.