Now, we know that BlueStacks 5 is faster than BlueStacks 4 in load times at least in Rise of Kingdoms, but does this speed come at a price? Well, yes AND no. Regardless, both versions perform nicely in this regard.
This probably means that most of the loading takes place upfront in the boot screen. In our test runs, we found that switching to another existing character on the same account takes about 16 seconds on both BlueStacks 5 and BlueStacks 4, on average. Regardless, if you have multiple characters on the same account, you might need to switch between them every so often, which actually requires a loading screen. You can zoom out from your town directly onto the world map without having to wait, and the transition is completely smooth, so there’s no point in comparing the versions in this aspect. Luckily, Rise of Kingdoms doesn’t have much in the way of in-game loading screens as the gameplay is seamless across most of its aspects. This represents almost a 50% increase in load time for this game, which also translates to other aspects of this game, which we’ll talk about in a moment. Nevertheless, a good point of entry for this comparison would be the boot times and loading times for both games, which are some of the first things you’ll encounter in the game.Īfter several test runs, we found that, on average, Rise of Kingdoms takes 18 seconds to boot up in BlueStacks 5, and 26 seconds on BlueStacks 4. Luckily, since they’re lighter than most games out there, these mobile titles often feature very short and quick loading screens, especially if you’re playing them on BlueStacks and have a decent PC. Some titles on other platforms have managed to disguise their loading screens with gameplay elements to give the illusion of no loading, but mobile games still haven’t gotten to this point. Our objective here is to show you through our own testing and data how BlueStacks 5 measures up so that you can decide for yourself if it’s worth upgrading (protip: It definitely is).Īs gamers, we’re no strangers to load screens these are just things you get used to as virtually every game features them. This time around, we’ll be taking a look at Rise of Kingdoms, the popular war game.
In this series of articles, we will be comparing the new BlueStacks 5 to its predecessor for playing specific popular games, in relation to several aspects such as resource consumption, multi-instance capabilities, performance, and load times. But what does this mean in practice? Furthermore, if you’ve already been able to run BlueStacks 4 adequately with your current hardware, what would the improvements that we’ve implemented in BlueStacks 5 be worth to you?
You’ve probably heard about how the new BlueStacks 5 is the fastest and lightest our Android emulator has ever been, at least when compared to the previous versions.