I came across this unusual error while I was setting up my Android environment for a new development laptop. I had just created a new image for the emulator in the Virtual Device Manager and when I attempted to run it this error popped up:

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.

The problem was the amount of ram I had specified for the emulator image, 1024MB. I reduced it 512MB and it fixed it.Now I need to find out why that is a problem as I have used larger memory allocations on other machines and they worked perfectly