Emulator freezing at startup

Issue

With the boot option set to "quick boot", when I try to launch an Android emulator, the emulator window pops up but the screen remains black with an information message at the top saying : "Cold boot : snapshot doesn't exist". A "dismiss" button is at the right of this text.

With the "cold boot" option, no message is displayed but the screen remains desesperatly black as well.

Even if I close the window, the qemu process remains alive. I have to kill it and remove the ".lock" files to be able to retry launching the emulator.

Additionnaly, my computer informs me that the graphics driver (AMD) was not responding anymore and had to be restarted.

Any idea about the source of the problem?

Solution

Despite a driver supposed to be up-to-date (that's what Windows used to tell me...), after installing the latest software from AMD (Crimson relive 17.7.1), the emulator now successfully works.

Answered By - Zelig63