Occasionally when logging into an SMP server my computer has a weird moment; minecraft freezes maybe 2 seconds into rendering the area around where i logged in, screen goes blank and then black and my monitor gives me its HDMI channel check icon in the top left hand corner.
After a few seconds more the screen comes back on, but minecraft is now non-responsive with a white screen inside the games window, the taskbar icon changes from a block of dirt to the Java icon.
Additionally a message is displayed in the system tray that says "The AMD display driver stopped working but was successfully able to recover."
If i try to close minecraft i get a window that says "Java.exe is not responding" the usual buttons, wait / end program, i have to ctrl+alt+delete to actually get minecraft to close in a timely fashion, since it seems that if this display driver stoppage occurs my session of minecraft is kaput, and must be restarted.
Im not saying my computer is top spec ... honestly its an old piece of junk, but it only started doing this when 1.3 and the followup patches hit and its getting rather annoying having to load the game twice on some occasions to get onto a server - in addition to the obvious session server problems, this crash prevented me from logging in once already this weekend during a session server problem, that sans crash would've otherwise landed me on the server i wanted to log into.
Anyone else having this problem with AMD Display Drivers lately?
(its ONLY happening to me whilst playing Minecraft btw folks)
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i play alot of games ... some of them im good at ... some of them ... not so much, well no ... i just plain suck at the latter portion ... you'd think that in 20 years of gaming, id learn ...
(its ONLY happening to me whilst playing Minecraft btw folks)
You obviously think it's MC's fault. But display drivers shouldn't crash, period.
The MC then goes unresponsive because the drivers have crashed, taking it with it.
Naw, its not overclocked ... and it is related to minecraft, since i can play far more ... demanding games (mass effect 3, starcraft 2) without the drivers crashing out.
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i play alot of games ... some of them im good at ... some of them ... not so much, well no ... i just plain suck at the latter portion ... you'd think that in 20 years of gaming, id learn ...
MC might hit a driver bug, but it didn't cause them.
Perhaps you can see the difference?
A display driver that stops working is a display driver problem. period.
So my display drivers mysteriously gain a problem after a minecraft content patch ... that only occurs in minecraft, and its the display drivers problem?
Sure, if it was totally on the display drivers end ... wouldnt i be experiencing this somewhere else?
and on every loadup of minecraft?
Its occurrence is random and some days i can log out of one server, into another and crash then.
I do have johnsmith as well as a texture update put into the java file.
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i play alot of games ... some of them im good at ... some of them ... not so much, well no ... i just plain suck at the latter portion ... you'd think that in 20 years of gaming, id learn ...
So my display drivers mysteriously gain a problem after a minecraft content patch ... that only occurs in minecraft, and its the display drivers problem?
Sure, if it was totally on the display drivers end ... wouldnt i be experiencing this somewhere else?
and on every loadup of minecraft?
Its occurrence is random and some days i can log out of one server, into another and crash then.
I do have johnsmith as well as a texture update put into the java file.
Minecraft uses portions of the display driver that other games rarely do, namely opengl.
I'd suggest updating the drivers for your graphics card, from the manufacturers website.
If you don't know how to do that, or still have issues please also post a dxdiag report:
To obtain the DxDiag file:
Press the Windows Key (the key with the Windows logo on your keyboard) + R (at the same time).
Type in DxDiag and press Enter or click OK. This will open the DirectX diagnostic tool.
Click on the Save All Information Button
Save this file to your Windows desktop and name it dxdiag.
After a few seconds more the screen comes back on, but minecraft is now non-responsive with a white screen inside the games window, the taskbar icon changes from a block of dirt to the Java icon.
Additionally a message is displayed in the system tray that says "The AMD display driver stopped working but was successfully able to recover."
If i try to close minecraft i get a window that says "Java.exe is not responding" the usual buttons, wait / end program, i have to ctrl+alt+delete to actually get minecraft to close in a timely fashion, since it seems that if this display driver stoppage occurs my session of minecraft is kaput, and must be restarted.
Im not saying my computer is top spec ... honestly its an old piece of junk, but it only started doing this when 1.3 and the followup patches hit and its getting rather annoying having to load the game twice on some occasions to get onto a server - in addition to the obvious session server problems, this crash prevented me from logging in once already this weekend during a session server problem, that sans crash would've otherwise landed me on the server i wanted to log into.
Anyone else having this problem with AMD Display Drivers lately?
(its ONLY happening to me whilst playing Minecraft btw folks)
You obviously think it's MC's fault. But display drivers shouldn't crash, period.
The MC then goes unresponsive because the drivers have crashed, taking it with it.
Perhaps you can see the difference?
A display driver that stops working is a display driver problem. period.
Sure, if it was totally on the display drivers end ... wouldnt i be experiencing this somewhere else?
and on every loadup of minecraft?
Its occurrence is random and some days i can log out of one server, into another and crash then.
I do have johnsmith as well as a texture update put into the java file.
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Retired StaffMinecraft uses portions of the display driver that other games rarely do, namely opengl.
I'd suggest updating the drivers for your graphics card, from the manufacturers website.
If you don't know how to do that, or still have issues please also post a dxdiag report:
To obtain the DxDiag file: