First fix: As of Monday October 1st, minecraft.net has been experiencing some errors. The site is very glitchy and the game will not play.
Second fix: Minecraft will commonly crash with an error report saying OpenGL isn't found (nullPointerException). It'll say the same thing about texture packs. This happens a lot with old video cards. Get a new one.
Third fix: Get some more RAM. Your computer may just be too freaking slow to handle the weight of Minecraft's huge updates.
Fourth fix (RECOMMENDED): Force update. Simplest fix I know.
Fifth fix: Minecraft's launcher is rarely but surely updated. Try redownloading it, or get the .jar instead of the .exe.
First fix: As of Monday October 1st, minecraft.net has been experiencing some errors. The site is very glitchy and the game will not play.
98%(ish) of the time the servers are fully functional. The main issues are that the Minecraft website won't load or that you get 503 errors trying to log into a server.
Second fix: Minecraft will commonly crash with an error report saying OpenGL isn't found (nullPointerException). It'll say the same thing about texture packs. This happens a lot with old video cards. Get a new one.
You usually don't have to get a new one - just updating your drivers works.
Third fix: Get some more RAM. Your computer may just be too freaking slow to handle the weight of Minecraft's huge updates.
Minecraft requires about 512mb of RAM. I would say that Minecraft requires the host computer to have no less than 4GB. The majority of lag is now coming from the processor and GPU.
I see.... most of those work anyway
One more fix for Ubuntu users:
UPDATE LWJGL! LWJGL connects Java and OpenGL, but older versions don't work on some graphics cards and/or builds of the OS. Here's an easy tutorial: http://timashley.me/node/596
Second fix: Minecraft will commonly crash with an error report saying OpenGL isn't found (nullPointerException). It'll say the same thing about texture packs. This happens a lot with old video cards. Get a new one.
Third fix: Get some more RAM. Your computer may just be too freaking slow to handle the weight of Minecraft's huge updates.
Fourth fix (RECOMMENDED): Force update. Simplest fix I know.
Fifth fix: Minecraft's launcher is rarely but surely updated. Try redownloading it, or get the .jar instead of the .exe.
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Retired Staff98%(ish) of the time the servers are fully functional. The main issues are that the Minecraft website won't load or that you get 503 errors trying to log into a server.
You usually don't have to get a new one - just updating your drivers works.
Minecraft requires about 512mb of RAM. I would say that Minecraft requires the host computer to have no less than 4GB. The majority of lag is now coming from the processor and GPU.
Doesn't do much unless you've installed a ton of mods.
The jar doesn't do anything that the exe doesn't do, it's just cross platform.
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One more fix for Ubuntu users:
UPDATE LWJGL! LWJGL connects Java and OpenGL, but older versions don't work on some graphics cards and/or builds of the OS. Here's an easy tutorial: http://timashley.me/node/596
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Does it put it in your .minecraft too?
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