Android AVD crash on start on Intel chipset with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ

Only a few seconds after launching the AVD, the emulator says that the OPENGL graphics driver crashed,Showing details reveal the following.

Operating system: Windows NT
                  6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
CPU: amd64
     family 6 model 58 stepping 9
     4 CPUs

Crash reason:  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ
Crash address: 0x18
Assertion: Unknown assertion type 0x00000000
Process uptime: 2 seconds

Thread 0 (crashed)
 0  ig7icd64.dll + 0x173f8a
...

It seems that it has something to do with the intel graphics driver ig7icd64.dll however unable to find a fix.

So far following attempts have been unsuccessful

• Updating the intel graphics driver, the latest version has the issue, trying an older version seems impossible without a reinstall of windows.

• Have tried different target levels of android SDK , different CPU types for AVD, recreating AVDs from scratch, nothing seems to change the error.

• Enabling software rendering / disabling it does not change the error even.

• Re-installing everything also did not help.

After a hard time with a lot of hit and trials, I was finally able to solve the problem by copying over an older version of ig7icd64.dll in c:\windows\system32 while I had the latest driver installed already . (I believe an uninstall and reinstall of graphics driver to the older version will also work).

The version working for me is

10.18.10.4276

The version that gave me all sorts of problems was the latest one :

10.18.10.4425

Also

need to use software rendering , hardware rendering still crashes as the graphics card does not support that