title: Improve Android Emulator Performance on Windows 7 x64
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554099/slow-android-emulator">Slow Android emulator</a>  </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  
  
  <p>I'm running on Eclipse Helios on Windows 7 x64. I have a Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz with 4.0 GB which I think should be enough, since I've never have any performance problems with developing tools. </p>
  
  <p>When I run my first app on the Android Emulator (both 2.3.3 and 3.0) it took at least 5 minutes to load the OS and at first it didn't even run the HelloAndroid app. Even when I managed to run the application, the performance was unbareable.</p>
  
  <p>The strange things is that is not a OS performance issue. This is the CPU and Memory status while executing: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8xFgL.jpg" alt="CPUPerformanceWhileRunning"></p>
  
  <p>I've tryed various things to improve the performance, but no major improvement is shown. I think I'm missing something. </p>
  
  <p>Things I have tryed: </p>
  
  <p>On AVD Manager</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Device RAM size to 512.</li>
  <li>Resolution to 640 x 480.</li>
  <li>Snapshot enabled.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>On Project preferences\Android</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>\Launch\ -cpu-delay 0 -no-boot-anim -cache ./cache -avd Android3</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Things I can't tryed:
  - Deploying on a device (don't have any).</p>
  
  <p>By the way, I've had the same problem on a MAC Mini 2.66 Ghz 2 GB but these settings made the difference.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone can give any tips to improve this lame performance?.</p>