title: AVD emulator not working in Android Studio (Could not initialize OpenglES emulation)
body: <p>I am a beginner in developing Android apps. I just installed Android Studio on my laptop and when I try to open an AVD, the following error appears:</p>
  
  <p><strong>emulator: ERROR: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, use '-gpu off' to disable it.</strong></p>
  
  <p><em>Here is the full log of the error:</em></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Creating filesystem with parameters:</p>
    
    <p>could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB</p>
  
  <pre><code>Size: 69206016
  Block size: 4096
  </code></pre>
    
    <p>could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB</p>
  
  <pre><code>Blocks per group: 32768 could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
  
  Inodes per group: 4224 could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
  Inode size: 256 could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
  </code></pre>
    
    <p>could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB</p>
  
  <pre><code>Journal blocks: 1024
  Label:  could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
  
  Blocks: 16896 could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
  
  Block groups: 1 getGLES1ExtensionString: Could not find GLES 1.x config!
  
  Reserved block group size: 7 Failed to obtain GLES 1.x extensions string!
  </code></pre>
    
    <p>Created filesystem with 11/4224 inodes and 1302/16896 blocks</p>
    
    <p>Could not initialize emulated framebuffer</p>
    
    <p>emulator: ERROR: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, use '-gpu
    off' to disable it.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have tried to reduce the resolution, RAM and change the device but nothing seems to work. Please advice.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The AVD is powering up when I uncheck the host GPU option but it is working really slowly.</p>