When I plugged in my Roku Express for the first time, it stuttered, buffered, and lagged—but with a few tweaks to its settings, I had it running perfectly. Thankfully, maximizing the performance of your Roku's rough edges is easy with these simple settings tweaks.
My cheap Roku Express streaming stick isn't a performance powerhouse. Whenever I'm scrolling through content, videos automatically playing are not only annoying, but they also slow down the UI, not to mention slowing down my network.
- First, go to the Roku home screen and select Settings.
- Choose Accessibility.
- Under the Reduce motion section, highlight Auto-play video and switch the setting to Off.
Disabling this option also silences some of Roku's automatic ads, which is rather handy since you can no longer disable ads completely, so this is the next best alternative.