I bought Minecraft for my daughter and installed it on the laptop she uses most of the time, or tried to.
The laptop is a Dell Latitude D620 Core2 with 1 GB of memory running Windows XP. The graphics (onboard) is the Intel 945GM.
When I run the downloaded "Minecraft.exe" file it apparently downloads a bunch of updates but then gives me an error about the lack of accelerated OpenGL and recommends updating the video drivers.
I've checked with both Dell and Intel and confirmed that I have the latest drivers.
I did find this "fix" for the OpenGL problem elsewhere on this forum:
I did find the minecraft.jar file in c:\Documents and Settings\*the user*\Application Data\.minecraft\bin
When I try to apply it, however, I find that I get a bunch of exceptions related to missing classes.
Figuring maybe it's not finding the other files, I prefaced the java -Xmx... line with a cd:\thepathtothe files line.
Still didn't work.
As things stand, my daughter is unhappy since she wants to play the game. I'm unhappy because I just wasted the money to buy it.
I don't have the actual logs at this time since they're on the laptop, I'm working on the desktop, and I haven't got the laptop set to talk to other computers on the local network (I travel with it and figured that was a bit more secure). I'll try and get that information later.
The laptop is a Dell Latitude D620 Core2 with 1 GB of memory running Windows XP. The graphics (onboard) is the Intel 945GM.
When I run the downloaded "Minecraft.exe" file it apparently downloads a bunch of updates but then gives me an error about the lack of accelerated OpenGL and recommends updating the video drivers.
I've checked with both Dell and Intel and confirmed that I have the latest drivers.
I did find this "fix" for the OpenGL problem elsewhere on this forum:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/781705-opengl-issues-on-intel-mobile-945gm/
I did find the minecraft.jar file in c:\Documents and Settings\*the user*\Application Data\.minecraft\bin
When I try to apply it, however, I find that I get a bunch of exceptions related to missing classes.
Figuring maybe it's not finding the other files, I prefaced the java -Xmx... line with a cd:\thepathtothe files line.
Still didn't work.
As things stand, my daughter is unhappy since she wants to play the game. I'm unhappy because I just wasted the money to buy it.
I don't have the actual logs at this time since they're on the laptop, I'm working on the desktop, and I haven't got the laptop set to talk to other computers on the local network (I travel with it and figured that was a bit more secure). I'll try and get that information later.
In the meantime, any suggestions?
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