I recently experienced a situation where Android Studio’s emulator crashed when starting an app that performed basic graphics operations.

I started up Process Monitor to investigate the issue.

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Tried recreating the situation, then stopped capturing events with: File -> Capture Events

Android Studio Emulator Crashes

Wanted to get an overview of the processes involved with: Tools -> Process Tree…

Right clicked studio64.exe and selected: Add process and children to Include filter

Android Studio Emulator Crashes Windows 10

Noticed that emulator64-crash-service.exe left a memory dump under:

Examined the memory dump with WinDbg (x64).

Checked for details about the crash with:

Part of the result:

This indicated that the problem was related to graphics drivers and/or settings.

I did not have important data on the Android emulator, so I made it boot again by removing all data (including the auto-starting app, which crashed the emulator).

Did this in Android Virtual Device manager with the Wipe Data option.

When the emulator could start again I started looking for additional graphics settings.

Found some under Extended controls -> Settings section -> Advanced tab.

The default setting for OpenGL ES renderer (Autodetect based on host) seemed problematic on this system.

I experimented with the settings and discovered that SwiftShader worked well. Running graphics rendering apps with this setting no longer crashed the emulator.

The problem occurred on a desktop system with an Intel Skylake CPU (Core i7-6700) running Windows 7 using Intel HD Graphics 530 with driver version 21.20.16.4860.

Android Studio Emulator Freezes

Conclusion

If Android Studio’s emulator crashes when running graphics rendering apps, it may help changing the OpenGL ES renderer setting.