How to speed up the android emulator

[Android Central Question]

I use an old machine for development with 8 GB ram, intel i5 3337U processor. I chekced and the processor does support VT-X.

The emulator is terribly slow, when navigating within the android menus I get around 1-2 fps.

I tried:
- Updating Android Studio and Windows 10 to the latest
- Confirming if virtualization is enabled in the BIOS
- Confirming I have HAXM installed
- Using OpenGL ES 2.0 hardware acceleration in AVD advanced settings

but to no avail.

Note the emulator used to be fast, like a year ago. I have no clue what causes this stutter and would like assistance to sort it out.

 

[Rukbat]

Uninstall the emulator.

Clean up the computer. (Nothing else but Windows should be running when you run the emulator - check services too.)

Reinstall the emulator.

(Emulators are generally slow - the emulator has to emulate running the Dalvik interpreter, written in ARM, on an 8x6 or x64 CPU. And an interpreter isn't famous for being fast either.)

[SUB][Moved to the software development forum][/SUB]