Updated to the latest version of Android Studio. Now it displays the following message:
Error: Unable to start the daemon process.
This may be caused by the configuration of the daemon.
For example, an unrecognized jvm option is used.
Please refer to the user guide
https://docs.gradle.org/2.10/userguide/gradle_daemon.html
Please read the following process output to find out more:
As in the instructions found by the link, I created the gradle.properties file (it was not there) and filled it in as it should, but nothing has changed. And yes, according to the parameters, my computer is suitable.