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hey guys i was just trying to play minecraft today because my friend told me to, and i get this error bad video card drivers and i have no idea what to do.

i have two display adapters which are:
Mobile Intel(R) HD Graphics
and
Radeon (TM) HD 6750M

i wud show u my dxdiag but its all in korean. i have total memory of 2854 MB
My DirectX is DirectX 11.
My laptop is HP Pavilion dv4-3118tx.
Thanks for the help in advance!!

Bad video card drivers!
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Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.
This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers.



--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 --------
Generated 26/10/12 8:49 AM

- Minecraft Version: 1.4.2
- Operating System: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
- Java Version: 1.7.0_07, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 411341320 bytes (392 MB) / 518979584 bytes (494 MB) up to 1037959168 bytes (989 MB)
- JVM Flags: 2 total; -Xms512m -Xmx1024m
- AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
- LWJGL: 2.4.2
- OpenGL: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Is Modded: Probably not
- Type: Client
- Texture Pack: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
- Vec3 Pool Size: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]


org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:185)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:311)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:856)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:232)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT 3227ed9b ----------

Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.
This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers.

Quote from Hidinginthelight

Make sure you have the latest drivers for the radeon card: http://support.amd.c...ob_win7-32.aspx

Then make sure your laptop is kicking over to the radeon card when you are playing minecraft (minecraft/java should both be set to high performance).
http://h10025.www1.h...product=5146810

There is also a way in the BIOS to disable the switchable graphics so it always runs off the radeon card. But that will drain your battery quicker if you use the laptop while not plugged in.

hey man thanks for the help. i tried downloading the driver but it wudnt let me download it and i searched google for why that was and apparently i have to download drivers from the HP website and i dont know where to find it so yeaahhh.. can u help me with that?? and how do i change my switchable graphics from dynamic to fixed???

Quote from Hidinginthelight

I wasn't finding the model of dv4 you said you have on the HP site.
Try there auto detect tool: http://h20614.www2.hp.com/ediags/gmd/

As for the switchable graphics, the link I posted in my first reply is the best I can offer. I've never had a laptop that had switchable graphics, and I'd need to try it out for myself before I would know it well enough to elp someone else do it.

It is becuase i bought the laptop from South Korea.
Ive already tried to use their auto detect tool, upgraded my BIOS and went into my BIOS to see if there was switchable graphics option, but there was no such option.
I think that the switchable graphics optiion in BIOS is only supported in some HP models...

And also i dont know any other way of updating my CCC, because it won't let me download any drivers from the AMD website....
do u know a way of just updating my CCC? I think i can only download drivers from the hp website