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I knew nox has been adware for a while and I'm surprised it's still being used. Literally go to r/noxappplayer and you'll see most of the top posts are about it being malware. If anyone's need a good android emulator, genymotion is probably the best and it's free for personal uses https://www.genymotion.com/fun-zone/

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99% of games I play doesn't run on genymotion, shows "your device isn't compatible with this version". Some say it's because they don't emulate ARM CPUs. Anyway around it?

Edit: I tried the ARM translation tool on Android 7.1/8.0, it's better now but still have lots of games don't work. I guess I have to stick with Nox/LDPlayer etc. for now since they just work. Don't know how they achieve it.

I would like to know as well.

I'd suggest trying MSI's app player. It should play everything, but it's not as granular controlled as LDplayer. Based on Bluestacks

Bluestacks seems to be more aimed at gaming emulation. Genymotion is meant to be used for development.

Why do you think genymotion is probably the best? I've compared genymotion and the Android Studio's default emulator, and found Genymotion to be buggy and has fewer features. Have you compared them recently, or are you speaking with older experience? There has been a lot of development and optimisation for the Android Studio emulators.

I guess we're not both Android developers, and you use the emulator for gaming?

Genymotion seems to be fine from me, I don't remember having zero bugs from my experience. However as you pointed, yes I'm speaking from past experiences from like 5 months ago. I know that android studio has an emulator but I remember it being more suited for development than personal gaming compared to genymotion

What does "literally" mean here?

It is a way to catch trolls.

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