My Windows Phone 7 animations look clunky on the emulator - should I be worried?

I'm doing a phone app with some animations and they look really clunky on the emulator. I don't have a phone yet so this is the only way I can test my app.

Sometimes the animations start late (up to a second after user input) and the they are almost always very jagged. Far from the smooth fades and transitions that I've seen on the interwebs. I'm not using anything hairy - just basic rotations and opacity fades on one or two elements.

Does anyone else see 开发者_开发问答this in the emulator? If not, i guess I have a bug somewhere. If so, is there a work around? Should I bump the priority of the xde.exe in process explorer? Other?

Thanks!

This may be a consequence of gpu detection no working on your system.

You can verify this by checking if you can see the frame rate counters.

Jeff Wilcox – Frame rate counters in Windows Phone

Note the emulator system requirements here also.

Setup and System Requirements for Windows Phone Emulator