How to fix windows 10 crash when opening Android Emulator?

Question

My computer kept crashing to a blue screen whenever I started a newly created virtual device(VD) with an updated API.

First, I deleted an old virtual device which was working perfectly well before creating the new one. The new VD was defined to a Pixel 3a (Play Store), R release with API 30 and was set with modified RAM, internal, and external storage. My expectation was for it to work fine as the old one but whenever I started the VD, it kept crashing my computer.

Tried setting generic values for the storage and RAM and made sure to have updated SDK platforms and tools but still kept crashing when I started the VD.

Answer 1

Make sure that the Intel HAXM option is checked and installed in your SDK tools.

Answer 2

2025 Answer - Flutter 3.27

The issue is with the impeller engine on Android emulator version 33.x.x and above, which results in a blue screen of death on Windows.

Solution 1

Running without impeller will fix the issue. Navigate to the root of your project directory and do.

flutter run --no-enable-impeller 

Solution 2

Alternatively, you can configure Android studio to do the same. Follow these steps

1. Menu > Run > Edit configurations > Click on + icon
2. Select flutter
3. In dart entry point add the path to your main.dart of current project.
4. In addditional run args, add --no-enable-impeller.
5. Save and then click on run button as usual.

Should look something like this Edit run configuration