emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer

Question

What do these error messages mean from the Android emulator?

Starting emulator for AVD \'AVD\'
Failed to create Context 0x3005
could not get wglGetExtensions         


        

Answer 1

Make sure you install the correct drivers for your graphics card. i was having the exact same error.

Answer 2

I too Had the same problem even if i have 512 MB of RAM. I solved by "Deleting" the older emulator and recreated the new emulator. Still i didn't know the reason for this issue.This issue is not yet closed by Google Developers . Hoping my solution help others.

Answer 3

It means the linker could not find OpenglES libraries on your system. You could try installing those.

On Fedora, this seems to solve the problem:

> yum install mesa-libGLw.i686

Some related information here: http://www.redips.net/android/emulator-fedora-linux/

Edit: For Windows-related things, this answer appears to do what you want.

Answer 4

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/< user-pc>/Android/Sdk/tools/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

cd /home/nazmul/Android/Sdk/tools

./emulator64-x86 -avd < avd-name > -gpu on

This comand work on my laptop .

Answer 5

While starting the emulator from the command line - $ emulator64-arm -avd GalaxyS2 - I got a similiar (and maybe/hopefully) related message:

emulator: ERROR: Could not load OpenGLES emulation library: lib64OpenglRender.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I found this file lib64OpenglRender.so through locate. It's in the tools/lib-subdirectory of the android-sdk-linux-dir.

So I created /etc/ld.so.conf.d/android_stuff.conf (you could of course add the following line to another *.conf-file in that directory) and put one line in:

path_to_android-sdk-linux_directory/tools/lib

Then call the configuration-tool: ldconfig (just without any parameter) and (at least in my case) the error-message went away.

Answer 6

One more tip...Check if you are not on virtual machine...I mean you should be on real machine.