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[kawks]

I just bought Minecraft a couple days ago and can't run it. I tried both the standalone version and the Java one, but I get this error every time.



      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 10/4/10 1:51 AM

Minecraft: Minecraft Alpha v1.1.2_01
OS: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java: 1.6.0_21, Sun Microsystems Inc.
VM: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode, sharing), 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:196)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:554)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT e2887576 ----------


My video card is up to date too. Can anyone help?

[Juliet]

Means your computer doesn't meet the requirements that minecraft has to play the game, alot of computers can't run it, especially laptops. If you go to the manufacturer's website for your computer there should be an option to update your graphics card. If not you could try going to like a BestBuy and having GeekSquad do it for you  

[Juliet]

And there's like a million of these threads, alot of people get this so just look around the support forum, you'll find a solution

[kawks]

I have a mobile intel 965 express family chipset as my graphics card. And like I mentioned previously, it's up to date.

[kawks]

Anyone else?

[kawks]

Still can't get this to work