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Having trouble installing Minecraft...?

Bad video card drivers!

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Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.

This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers.

--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 --------

Generated 10/22/11 4:12 PM

Minecraft: Minecraft Beta 1.8.1

OS: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1

Java: 1.6.0_29, Sun Microsystems Inc.

VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Sun Microsystems Inc.

LWJGL: 2.4.2

[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated

at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)

at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)

at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:185)

at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:311)

at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:856)

at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)

at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)

at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:233)

at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:629)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

--- END ERROR REPORT c00bc58d ----------

it gives me this error and I have tried upgrading the video cards and whatever else it said to do and it still won't do anything, any ideas??

Update:

Intel (R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family

Update 2:

i tried to upgrade the video drivers but it says it is already on the right one

Update 3:

any other suggestions Black Hat?

1 Answer

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  • 10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Two Possibilities:

    Your video card does not meet the minimum requirements to use OpenGL 2.0

    or

    You didn't do the driver update correctly.

    What GPU is it?

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