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Minecraft bad video card drivers windows 8?

Whenever i start up minecraft, it says 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 16/05/13 7:45 PM

-- System Details --

Details:

Minecraft Version: 1.5.2

Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2

Java Version: 1.7.0_21, Oracle Corporation

Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation

Memory: 398916368 bytes (380 MB) / 518979584 bytes (494 MB) up to 1037959168 bytes (989 MB)

JVM Flags: 2 total; -Xms512m -Xmx1024m

AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used

Suspicious classes: No suspicious classes found.

IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0

LWJGL: 2.4.2

OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.

Type: Client (map_client.txt)

Texture Pack: Default

Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)

Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null[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:235)

at avv.a(SourceFile:56)

at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:507)

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

--- END ERROR REPORT 1a6d740e ----------

The video card driver i have right now is an ATI Radeon HD 3450 (Microsoft Corporation- WDDM v1.1)

I think it's the default for windows 8, how do you fix this? thanks in advance

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    you got windows default drivers installed thats your problem. (might also not work on the graphics card as it's quite poor for gaming)

    http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/at...

    support and drivers at the bottom.

    for some reason it's a little slow/glitchy, so you have to select each one in the menu and wait, it will be under HD 3000, then windows 8 (32 or 64 bit depends on which you have installed)

  • boyter
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Video Card Drivers Windows 8

  • 8 years ago

    Sounds like you have a newer, lower end laptop with a intel CPU that uses HD3000 series built in graphics. Windows 8 is not really a problem, its the built in graphics. updating the "drivers" may help but Minecraft needs a "recommended". of Geforce 6000 series or AMD 9000 series for it to work well.

    What the report is telling you...is you do not have graphics good enough to play the game so it doesn't install.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

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  • 7 years ago

    Hey George H, But I have Geforce 7100 but still minecraft is not working, its full name is

    NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.2)

    Still not working i also update it

  • Jack
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/lega...

    thats the update site for your drivers.

    just download the catalyst software suite and install. it will install drivers as well as AMDs suite for more control over your graphics card.

    be aware that card is increadibly old and that is the last driver update it will receive.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    This is an interesting question, and one that intrigued me for many years.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I wish to ask the same question as the previous person.

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