What graphic cards do Android emulator GPU emulation support?

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Falcon picture Falcon · Jul 19, 2012 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

I have HD7690M XT (an overclocked version of 6770M) and Android emulator (sdk tool rev.20) for ICS failed to start hardware OpenGL ES emulation with the following error message:

emulator: ERROR: Could not load OpenGLES emulation library: Could not load DLL!
emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.

and with software renderer I got really bad color resolution (please see the attached screenshots). I suspect that this is due to the software renderer (no such problem in emulating earlier versions of Android). Have someone who can run hardware emulation seen this problem?

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What graphic cards can hardware GPU emulation run on? (You can see detailed debug messages by executing $ emulator -avd your_avd_name -verbose)

Answer

Niklaus picture Niklaus · Aug 1, 2012

I had the same problem on my Windows 7 (64-bit) machine. The reason was that the libOpenglRender.DLL could not be located. I added C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools\lib to the PATH variable and can start the emulator now without error message. However, I don't see a difference in quality of the graphics compared to your screenshot.

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