Android studio emulator fails to start with memory limit related error message

Question

I'm trying to run my first android studio project but I get this error message and the emulator doesn't start :

Created filesystem with 11/4224 inodes and 1302/16896 blocks
Failed to create Context 0x3005
emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.
emulator: WARNING: Requested RAM size of 1536MB is too large for your environment, and is reduced to 1152MB.
emulator: device fd:544
HAX is not working and emulator runs in emulation mode
emulator: The memory needed by this VM exceeds the driver limit.
Cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Invalid argument

Answer 1

• From Android studio open Windows->Select Android Virtual Device Manager->Chose your device->Click Edit button->Change the RAM parameter to 512 Mb in the Memory Options->Save and run the emulator it will work
• Else you may use Genymotion Android Vm: https://www.genymotion.com/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#!/download

Answer 2

After Android Studio is installed

In CMD (Run As Admin) execute this command (Emulator should be closed):

//if it's installed on D:, at first, "cd" to that drive, like  "D:"
cd "%ANDROID_SDK_HOME%\sdk\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager"
silent_install.bat -m 1024

this will set HAXM memory to 1024Mb (max 1800). Set RAM parameter in VDM slightly below this value, like 980

If you are using Mac OS then use navigate to path /<USER_DIR>/Library/Android/sdk/extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager and execute sudo ./silent_install.sh -m 1024

Answer 3

Try restarting your computer!

I was just wrestling with this problem and after an hour of scouring the web to no avail I tried restarting my computer and the problem was resolved.