The battle royale genre blew up after the release of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, better known as PUBG, on PC. The game’s success prompted a number of developers to release their own battle royale games. Things blew up further when these games made their way to mobile devices. The free-to-play model played a huge part in making the games popular. But for many gamers, playing shooting games on a touch screen isn’t all that intuitive and doesn’t feel as satisfactory as using a mouse and keyboard. But considering not everyone is willing to pay for PUBG on PC or has a PC powerful enough to run the game, you aren’t left with much of a choice, or so it would seem. So if you’ve been wondering how you can get the best of both worlds, we’ve got you covered. Here’s how to play PUBG Mobile on PC.

Currently, there are two official ways to Play PUBG on Windows PCs. The most popular one is the Gameloop emulator — developed by Tencent itself — because it has a huge player base and runs exactly like PUBG Mobile. Earlier, it was called Tencent Gaming Buddy but it has been renamed to Gameloop now. Next is PUBG Lite — a proper desktop game developed by Tencent for Windows PCs. It was released last year in July and since then, PUBG Lite has also amassed a significant player base. We will go through both of them and find out which one is the best way to play PUBG on PCs. Having said all of that, let’s begin with Gameloop first and learn how to set it up. In the end, we have highlighted the optimal settings that you should use to run the game smoothly so check that too.

Gameloop is rightly claimed to be the best-ever emulator for PUBG Mobile and it’s relatively simple to use. To get started, you’ll need to download the setup file from this link and install the emulator on your Windows PC.

Adjust Emulator Settings for Best Performance

By the time the game downloads, you can set up the emulator to ensure optimal performance on your system as the default settings don’t offer the best performance. To do so, click on the hamburger menu in the top right corner of the emulator home screen and tap on the ‘Settings’ option.

  • In the ‘Engine’ tab, you need to turn on the ‘Prioritize Dedicated GPU’ setting to ensure that the emulator makes use of the dedicated GPU on your system which will greatly improve the performance. If you don’t have a dedicated GPU, turning on the setting will have no effect on the performance.

Adjust In-Game Settings for Best Performance

Now that you’ve got the game downloaded and have already applied the optimal settings, you can run the game. The first time you start the game, you’ll see a controls panel to the right of the emulator which will list down all the keyboard and mouse controls to play the game. While most PC gamers will be familiar with the controls, if you’ve never played a shooting game on your PC before, I would strongly advise you to go through the controls and memorize them as well as you can. The panel can easily be hidden when not in use.

With these settings, the game runs rather well on my system with minor stutters and lags here and there, which is to be expected since we’re running the game on an emulator. Don’t expect the game to run as well as it would run on a high-end smartphone, even if you have high-end hardware powering your PC.

Once you’re done customizing everything as per your liking, you can jump right into a game and have fun playing PUBG Mobile on your PC. Do note that in order to keep the playing field level, players using an emulator will only be matched with other players using an emulator and even though the game allows you to enter matches with your friends who are playing on mobile devices, your friends might find themselves at a significant disadvantage going against players using a keyboard and mouse.

As I said above, PUBG Lite is another way you can enjoy this awesome battle royale game on your Windows PC. The game has been developed by Tencent itself so there is not much to do for installation. Just click and install. Apart from that, your PC should have at least 4GB of RAM, an i3 processor, Intel HD 4000 or mid-tier AMD Radeon graphics and should be running Windows 10, 8 or 7. So having said all of that, let’s move to the installation steps.

  1. Once the installation is done, just open the game and you will be able to play PUBG on your Windows PC just fine.

Well, that rounds up how to play PUBG Mobile on your PC. The Tencent Gameloop emulator is undoubtedly the best emulator to run PUBG Mobile out there and even though there are a couple of other popular Android emulators like Bluestacks and Nox, they don’t offer the same fluid gameplay experience you’d get with the Tencent Gameloop. You can also try playing PUBG Lite, if your major reason for playing PUBG Mobile is an old PC. PUBG Lite doesn’t require powerful hardware and can run even on lower-end PCs.