Android Emulator warning and low performance after updating to MacOS High Sierra

Question

Whenever I start the emulator I get this warning

Your GPU driver information:

GPU #1 Make: 8086 Model: 0166 Device ID: 0166

Some users have experienced emulator stability issues with this driver version. As a result, we're selecting a compatibility renderer. Please check with your manufacturer to see if there is an updated driver available.

Also the emulator is slow to the point its almost unusable. I am running MacOS High Sierra on Mid 2012 MacBookPro with 10GB ram and 250GB SSD.My Intel HAXM installation is on point.

Sidenote: Additionally I tried to run the genymotion emulator but with no luck speed improvement.

Answer 1

If you running the android emulator on MacOS, go to ~/.android/ folder and delete the following files: "emu-last-feature-flags.protobuf" and "emu-update-last-check.ini"

then run the emulator again. My laptop has Intel HD4000 and I solve the problem in this way.