Any trick to speed up Android 4.0 emulator?

Question

I have rather strong dual core PC with 6GB RAM and yet Android 4.0 and 4.03 emulators are very, very slow.

Is there any trick to speed up this emulator or I would have to buy a new i5/i7 processor (like suggested in some other post)?

I am asking this as we've managed to speed up emulators in the past so there's got to be some trick to make it faster (both booting and working).

Answer 1

Try to scale screen size of your emulator to a smaller size.

For examples:

Screen size (in): 3 or 4

Monitor dpi: 160