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[Mannerheim]

Hey guys!

I bought and downloaded Minecraft this thursday and have played it frequently ever since. I played about 4 hours earlier today and now when I try to launch it wont start!

After I've clicked the client, filled in my username and password and pressed "Login" I get a quick glimpse of the loading bar displaying "Updating something..." and then it is just pitch black. Nothing happends until I shut down the client by pressing the red exit button.

I have already tried to re-install Java and I've downloaded the game client (both versions from http://www.minecraft.net/) several times with no results.

Is this happening to anyone else? What should I do to fix the problem?

[bigpapi567]

im running vista having the same problem wierdest part is i could play it fine for a while and im going on a week with it doing this

[WitchHunter]

Go to Appdate> Roaming ( to do this, press the Windows logo +r to run, and type %appdata% and OK)
Go into the .minecraft folder, and DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SAVES FOLDER.
When you start MineCraft up, the Black Screen won't appear anymore.

It worked for me, hope it'll also help you guys.

[happyknife]

It downloaded, then went to a black screen...

[Deluxx]

Yeah, same problem here.


Although, it still works on my other Windows XP computer.

[whythisname]

WitchHunter said:

Go to Appdate> Roaming ( to do this, press the Windows logo +r to run, and type %appdata% and OK)
Go into the .minecraft folder, and DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SAVES FOLDER.
When you start MineCraft up, the Black Screen won't appear anymore.

It worked for me, hope it'll also help you guys.

Have been having the same black screen issue as you guys since the server went down (on Win 7 Ulti 64-bit), but the solution WitchHunter gave worked like a charm for me as well I did need to play it online once though (online as in your browser on the minecraft homepage).

[Darkflere]

WitchHunter said:

Go to Appdate> Roaming ( to do this, press the Windows logo +r to run, and type %appdata% and OK)
Go into the .minecraft folder, and DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SAVES FOLDER.
When you start MineCraft up, the Black Screen won't appear anymore.

It worked for me, hope it'll also help you guys.

Worked for me also, ty. <3

[Micta]

I'm still having this problem. I've already tried deleting my .minecraft. :c
Is it just me, now?

[thetyler101]

Micta said:

I'm still having this problem. I've already tried deleting my .minecraft. :c
Is it just me, now?

Nope, I still have this problem. First time playing, can't log in once on my machine. Keep getting this weird error every time too. Works for XP machines at school just fine though.

[rueracer]

WitchHunter said:

Go to Appdate> Roaming ( to do this, press the Windows logo +r to run, and type %appdata% and OK)
Go into the .minecraft folder, and DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SAVES FOLDER.
When you start MineCraft up, the Black Screen won't appear anymore.

It worked for me, hope it'll also help you guys.

This worked perfectly, I deleted everything but the file Last Login and it works now.

[FWEAS]

Finally a solution with a decent chance of success, worked perfectly for me, thanks.

[Ninjy]

it doesn't work for me ive already done that deleting stuff but it didn't work
i could go on for a day and then the next day i couldn't
+ there would aslo be errors in notepads that poped up on my desktop

[Benjipants]

i have same trouble but its an OpenGL problem.

How do you change it from direct x to open gl on windows 7?

[fatsofatso]

rueracer said:

WitchHunter said:

Go to Appdate> Roaming ( to do this, press the Windows logo +r to run, and type %appdata% and OK)
Go into the .minecraft folder, and DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SAVES FOLDER.
When you start MineCraft up, the Black Screen won't appear anymore.

It worked for me, hope it'll also help you guys.

This worked perfectly, I deleted everything but the file Last Login and it works now.

i just got this computer, and i don't have a last login save to save, so i try to delete the .minecraft folder and redownload, but it does not work...

i have survived for two weeks without minecraft on my computer, but i'm not sure how much longer i can last @_@

[tie_twix]

WitchHunter said:

Go to Appdate> Roaming ( to do this, press the Windows logo +r to run, and type %appdata% and OK)
Go into the .minecraft folder, and DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SAVES FOLDER.
When you start MineCraft up, the Black Screen won't appear anymore.

This doesn't work for me either, I've tried all the methods posted on Minecraftforums and I still get the black screen. Do you think it might just fix itself if I leave it on the black screen for as long as I can afford?

Edit: I should probably say that at the same time I started black screening on Minecraft Beta, the same started happening on Classic aswell. I never had this problem before today.

[gnomeo76]

Worked well, and after a while and all the files had been regenerated it went black again. do you know what i should do?

[Tezor01]

seems like this error is only on Vista/7 . i have win 7 , when i log in and load the map i'm playing for 2-10 mins and then the blackscreen strikes. I Re-installed java over and over i've COMPLETLY deleted every single minecraft thing from my PC and still the black screen strikes. i can play it in browser on the minecraft site but if u have mods the browser won't work, and i can't live without mods.... guess Notch needs to do something. Minecraft is a great game i don't want to stop playing it bcz this stupid error.

[madjack32]

Ok i might have something that helps:
Just as you get a blackscreen, start spam-clicking the minecraft window, usually you would get an error message(You can either wait a period of time too, but spam clicking is faster).

I got this error message;

      Bad video card drivers!      
      -----------------------      

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 24-9-11 14:10

Minecraft: Minecraft Beta 1.8.1
OS: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java: 1.6.0_27, 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 b93425ef ----------

And if you DO NOT get an error message, try updating your java!
but anyhow, This error message is REALLY helpful, since as you can see, java tells me that my Video card drivers are not up-to-date.

This causes an OpenGL problem, and since minecraft uses OpenGL, it cant run!
I hope this helps, --madjack32

Edit: i took the long way, and decided that i wanted to check what video card i had(NVIDIA GEFORCE 7025),
and all i had to do was right click it and select "Update drivers".
P.S. if you take MY way, its the long way, usually you can just use the NVIDIA/Radeon control panel, but i didnt have that....

[richerds1234]

madjack32, on 24 September 2011 - 12:17 PM, said:

Ok i might have something that helps:
Just as you get a blackscreen, start spam-clicking the minecraft window, usually you would get an error message(You can either wait a period of time too, but spam clicking is faster).

I got this error message;

      Bad video card drivers!      
      -----------------------      

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 24-9-11 14:10

Minecraft: Minecraft Beta 1.8.1
OS: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java: 1.6.0_27, 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 b93425ef ----------

And if you DO NOT get an error message, try updating your java!
but anyhow, This error message is REALLY helpful, since as you can see, java tells me that my Video card drivers are not up-to-date.

This causes an OpenGL problem, and since minecraft uses OpenGL, it cant run!
I hope this helps, --madjack32

Edit: i took the long way, and decided that i wanted to check what video card i had(NVIDIA GEFORCE 7025),
and all i had to do was right click it and select "Update drivers".
P.S. if you take MY way, its the long way, usually you can just use the NVIDIA/Radeon control panel, but i didnt have that....

your a idiot thats not what the rest of us are geting we dont get a eror mesage we black screen with no mods nothing we just on get a blackscreen after we lanch the game

[dynamic_darkhead]

i deleted anything that has the name minecraft and re-downloaded the lot now it seems to work