Glitches in Chrome Browser in Android Emulator [Windows 11 Visual Studio 2022] - xamarin.android

When I open chrome on emulator & browse any website, I get this:
Specifications:
OS : Windows 11 Pro
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU # 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz
GPU : AMD Radeon RX 550
Android SDK Version : 30.8.4
IDE : Visual Studio 2022
Emulator Specification : Below image
It was working fine on Windows 10 & Visual studio 2019.

It could possibly be due to the new GPU driver updates that came along for Windows 11. As a workaroud give this a try until future updates fixes it.
Choose ANGLE(D3D11) as the renderer. Find this under Settings of the Android Emulator.

After setting it to ANGLE (D3D11), as explained by Zammil, kill the emulator and start it again (in case you are wondering why it does not work). Open GL API level should stay as it is, here the image:

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