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Hi,
I've just downloaded the Minecraft demo (windows version) but when I start it, after logging in, it just hang on while sayin "updating minecraft done loading" with a green progress bar below (filled up to, say, 95%).

I've tried various solutions suggested on this forum and other web sites but so far nothing worked. What I've tried so far:

- the "delete the .minecraft\bin directory" route : there is nothing in the .minecraft or bin directory; deleted either directories but no changes

- dowloaded a minecraft.jar in the bin directory (from one of the last snapshot): i don't get the "updating" screen (i see it flash by) but just a black window

- updated my graphics drivers (ati)

- updated java to 7u7:
java version "1.7.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_07-b10)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.3-b01, mixed mode)

- rebooted the machine


nothing worked. I'm running this on win7 x64

Could someone give some advice?

Thank you
Marco

Hi,
I tried what you suggested. Before doing it I've checked che .minecraft directory and it was empty (ie: no bin directory)

After enabling the "force update" option I logged in and got the same "done loading" screen. I then checked the .minecraft directory and I found a newly created and empty bin sub directory

Minecraft is still frozen on the "done loading" screen.

I've got the demo running. Wanting to known what was going on I've runned MC under a debugger and see that it just hung after checking for some jar files in the bin directory and after a connection to amazon web services. I dowloaded the jar files from the Lightweight Java Game Library web site, the last snapshot and now I can play the demo

If anyone is interested, these are the step a taken:

- download the Lightweight Java Game Library (lwjgl) from http://lwjgl.org/download.php (i used lwjgl-2.8.4.zip)

- decompress the zip file and then copy the following files in the minecraft bin directory : jinput.jar, lwjgl.jar and lwjgl_util.jar

- create a directory named natives in the bin directory

- copy all the files in the native\windows directory from the lwjgl archive in the natives directory you just created

- download the last snapshot of minecraft from http://www.mojang.com/ then place it (minecraft.jar) in the bin directory

- run Minecraft.exe and log in


I've just re-run the game forcing it to update itself and it still work (i suspect that the "force update" did nothing)

Marco