Why is my android emulator so laggy?

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Despite this, my android emulator is a lot laggy. Animations are a lot jerky and it's not smooth at all. What should I do to speed up android emulator? I've read this: Why is the Android emulator so slow? How can we speed up the Android emulator? and tried things listed but it isn't working.

What should I do?

Play with the "Graphics" options in "Emulated Performance" in the AVD settings in the AVD Manager for your AVD. — CommonsWare, Apr 23 '17 at 17:45
@CommonsWare it is set to "Automatic". Switching it to "Hardware" has no effect. Switching it to "Software" makes it pathetically slow — mehulmpt, Apr 23 '17 at 17:49
OK, well, that at least eliminates the GPU as being the problem spot. I assume that this is an x86 image that you are using. HAXM seems happy. Is anything else consuming significant CPU time besides the emulator? — CommonsWare, Apr 23 '17 at 17:51
@CommonsWare doesn't look like. CPU remains under 2% when emulator is idle and shoots max upto ~35% when i'm clicking here and there in emulator — mehulmpt, Apr 23 '17 at 17:54
Try a regular x86 image (not x86_64) and see if you have better luck. — CommonsWare, Apr 23 '17 at 17:56
I guess that it is your graphics card. That card is way out of date. — creativecreatorormaybenot, Apr 23 '17 at 17:58
@CommonsWare WOAH! I just downloaded x86 image and it is much much better (though still not really top notch) than 64 bit one. Why is this so? — mehulmpt, Apr 23 '17 at 18:06
@creativecreatorormaybenot I think 512 mb graphic card should be enough to power at least an emulator — mehulmpt, Apr 23 '17 at 18:06
@creativecreatorormaybenot i'm asking about gpu/graphics card — mehulmpt, Apr 23 '17 at 18:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '17 at 18:11

Apparently, in your environment, the x86 images perform better than the x86_64 ones. Whether that is tied to your CPU (i5 vs. i7) or something else, I can't say.

Moral of this story: try a variety of emulator images to see what the problem is. CPU architecture, screen resolution, GPU emulation mode, and such all affect performance.

Why is my android emulator so laggy?

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