Android Emulator Won't Start After Android Studio 2.0 Upgrade

I recently upgraded Android Studio to 2.0 (Windows) which broke the emulator. The symptom is that the emulator starts a (single thread) process that takes about 100% of its CPU. No

Solution 1:

I had the same problem I had to reinstall android studio all over again, After that open your SDK monitor press on launch stand alone SDK manager, There scroll down and check if the emulator is installed properly if not install it. I hope this answer helped you since that's what I did and it works.

Solution 2:

A temporary solution:

1. Go into the AVD Manager, select the Virtual device, and click "Edit"
2. Find "Emulated Performance" -> Graphics, and switch that from auto (or hardware) to Software.

It won't have quite the performance, but this worked for me. Seems to be that Android Studio 2.0 doesn't play well with certain graphics cards or something.