Before I begin, I am running a Mid 2011 Mac mini with Mac OS X 10.7.3, a 2.7Ghz i7, 8 GB of Ram, and a AMD Radeon HD 6630M.
I was trying to run magic launcher earlier and was getting a white screen when I tried to play minecraft. It worked, but it was a white window. I was curious if it had to do with my Java version.
I checked the Java preferences and I was on Java SE 6, which I knew to be the public release, but old, version.
I looked around the interwebs for Java SE 7 for OS X, and found that there is an OpenJDK port of it that Oracle is using as their developer preview on the Java 7 page, so I download it and see that it is 64 bit only. "Not a Problem" I say as I was pretty sure that the latest Minecraft launcher uses the 64Bit version of Java.
So I try using the Launcher with OpenJDK 7 and I get this:
I can't entirely tel if this is because OpenJDK 7 is 64Bit only because if I disable the 2Bit Java SE 6, it also disables the 64Bit Java SE 6.
What's wrong and what should I do to get Minecraft working under OpenJDK7/get the Magic launcher to work?
OpenJDK is not officially from Oracle or Sun. OpenJDK is an open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit.
In Linux (which is based on Minix, which is based on UNIX, which Darwin was based on, which is what OSX is based on), using any Java 7-related JDK or JRE with Minecraft requires either running Minecraft with a script (which I doubt works in the Bash-less OSX) or updating the LWJGL files in Minecraft's folder. I would guess the same holds true here, but I have little to no experience with Minecraft on OSX.
Long story short: try updating LWJGL. If that doesn't work, I'm afraid you're stuck with Java 6 until Apple releases Java 7 for their own OS.
Oh. I'm not sure what to tell you in that case. I've heard of Minecraft not launching properly with Java 7, but never the launcher.
Here's the short script then. I highly doubt it'll work in OSX, though.
Sorry for bumping, but I’ve tried out that bash script. It runs, but the person who made it used his own personal directories so it doesn’t work. I’m not really sure what to change the directories to, however.
I was trying to run magic launcher earlier and was getting a white screen when I tried to play minecraft. It worked, but it was a white window. I was curious if it had to do with my Java version.
I checked the Java preferences and I was on Java SE 6, which I knew to be the public release, but old, version.
I looked around the interwebs for Java SE 7 for OS X, and found that there is an OpenJDK port of it that Oracle is using as their developer preview on the Java 7 page, so I download it and see that it is 64 bit only. "Not a Problem" I say as I was pretty sure that the latest Minecraft launcher uses the 64Bit version of Java.
So I try using the Launcher with OpenJDK 7 and I get this:
I can't entirely tel if this is because OpenJDK 7 is 64Bit only because if I disable the 2Bit Java SE 6, it also disables the 64Bit Java SE 6.
What's wrong and what should I do to get Minecraft working under OpenJDK7/get the Magic launcher to work?
In Linux (which is based on Minix, which is based on UNIX, which Darwin was based on, which is what OSX is based on), using any Java 7-related JDK or JRE with Minecraft requires either running Minecraft with a script (which I doubt works in the Bash-less OSX) or updating the LWJGL files in Minecraft's folder. I would guess the same holds true here, but I have little to no experience with Minecraft on OSX.
Long story short: try updating LWJGL. If that doesn't work, I'm afraid you're stuck with Java 6 until Apple releases Java 7 for their own OS.
My launcher won't even open with Java 7
2-OS X does too have bash, just sayin, or at least, a VERY bash like terminal.
Oh. I'm not sure what to tell you in that case. I've heard of Minecraft not launching properly with Java 7, but never the launcher.
Here's the short script then. I highly doubt it'll work in OSX, though.
Sorry for bumping, but I’ve tried out that bash script. It runs, but the person who made it used his own personal directories so it doesn’t work. I’m not really sure what to change the directories to, however.
Launching seems to be as simple as-
java -jar /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/Resources/Java/MinecraftLauncher.jar
or, for MyCraft:
java -jar /Applications/MyCraft/MyCraft.app/Contents/Resources/Java/MyCraft.jar