Okay, it was my birthday yesterday, and I spent a significant portion trying to solve this issue...
I never really played minecraft with anyone before, and my sister and I decided to get together and play. We decided to use 1.15.2. Now, I just learned that you could make separate profiles, with one for each version of the game, so that you don't have to remove all the mods and resourcepacks in order to play whatever version.
So, on one hand, I've been trying to get multimc to work for us.
On the other hand, I went in and played on the profile I made for 1.15.2. I named it .minecraft152. I played a vanilla game, with no mods whatsoever. After a few hours, I decided to see if I could get it modded and set up, and maybe it would work better than MultiMC, which is just laggy as hell, and running out of memory - a problem I never had with the same mods in 1.16.2.
So, I tried to install Forge, and it says "The directory is missing a launcher profile. Please run the minecraft launcher first," and gives me the address of the profile i'm trying to run. Now, if you were paying attention, you'd know I ALREADY RAN the minecraft launcher there. Well, I tried again anyway, and it keeps saying the same thing. Looking around online, everyone says the obvious - run the game, X out, and you're good. BUT IT ISN'T WORKING AND IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME WHY. When I go inside that directory, they're right, it's pretty bare. Nothing about mods...the resourcepacks thing is there, and that's the only thing I did - installed ONE resourcepack, that works just fine.
Does ANYONE have an idea of what's going on for me? It seems hardly worth it for me to make profiles for different versions if I can't install Forge? For the record, MultiMC had no problem creating said launcher profile and installing Forge.
So, I tried to install Forge, and it says "The directory is missing a launcher profile.
Don't change the path of Forge - keep it to the default path
For using multiple directories use a folder inside the default .minecraft-folder. For example, create a /instances/-folder inside your .minecraft-folder. In this folder put you custom versions:
Okay, it was my birthday yesterday, and I spent a significant portion trying to solve this issue...
I never really played minecraft with anyone before, and my sister and I decided to get together and play. We decided to use 1.15.2. Now, I just learned that you could make separate profiles, with one for each version of the game, so that you don't have to remove all the mods and resourcepacks in order to play whatever version.
So, on one hand, I've been trying to get multimc to work for us.
On the other hand, I went in and played on the profile I made for 1.15.2. I named it .minecraft152. I played a vanilla game, with no mods whatsoever. After a few hours, I decided to see if I could get it modded and set up, and maybe it would work better than MultiMC, which is just laggy as hell, and running out of memory - a problem I never had with the same mods in 1.16.2.
So, I tried to install Forge, and it says "The directory is missing a launcher profile. Please run the minecraft launcher first," and gives me the address of the profile i'm trying to run. Now, if you were paying attention, you'd know I ALREADY RAN the minecraft launcher there. Well, I tried again anyway, and it keeps saying the same thing. Looking around online, everyone says the obvious - run the game, X out, and you're good. BUT IT ISN'T WORKING AND IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME WHY. When I go inside that directory, they're right, it's pretty bare. Nothing about mods...the resourcepacks thing is there, and that's the only thing I did - installed ONE resourcepack, that works just fine.
Does ANYONE have an idea of what's going on for me? It seems hardly worth it for me to make profiles for different versions if I can't install Forge? For the record, MultiMC had no problem creating said launcher profile and installing Forge.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Strigiforme
Don't change the path of Forge - keep it to the default path
For using multiple directories use a folder inside the default .minecraft-folder. For example, create a /instances/-folder inside your .minecraft-folder. In this folder put you custom versions:
.minecraft/instances/1.15.2/
or
.minecraft/instances/1.16.3/
to install forge on mutlimc, click the profile and then, from the options on the left, select "install forge".
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