title: Android Studio: Hardware Acceleration
body: <p>This is driving me absolutely crazy and I can't find any help. I'm fairly novice when it comes to emulators, and even more so when it comes to Android Studio. Here's my problem: I installed Android Studio. Downloaded the SDK updates, including the HAXM one, and set up my own AVD. Upon trying to start up my AVD, or even the starter AVD that was already there, I get an error stating that "emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration!"</p>
  
  <p>I've done some googling and tried to finish the install of HAXM using the install file in the Android/SDK folder. I was promptly told that the installation failed and that my CPU didn't allow for Intel Hardware Acceleration, or something like that. I read somewhere that the only way I can use Hardware Acceleration on AMD is if I were on Linux, with which I have no experience with. So I tried giving up. Now I can't figure out how to disable Hardware Acceleration entirely in Android Studio. I haven't even begun learning how to write in android because I can't get an AVD up and running. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any tips for a complete Android noob? I thought this would be something fun to try since I was at once point fairly good with C++ and I have always been a huge fan of android. However, I've avoided doing anything GUI related until now, and I'm not finding it very fun at the moment.</p>
  
  <p>I'm running an AMD system with 8GB of ram. More specifically, I'm using an AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core Processor on a GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3 Motherboard.</p>