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I cannot get Minecraft to work post Windows 8 upgrade.
I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series (WDDM v 1.1). I updated the driver for win8 from the AMD website here: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalystlegacywin8.aspx. Now at driver version 8.97.10.6, dated 6/19/12

Anyone know a driver that will work? Or other way to get it working? Thanks
I’ve tried running the minecraft.exe in Windows 8:
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 11/4/12 12:13 PM
- Minecraft Version: 1.4.2
- Operating System: Windows 8 (amd64) version 6.2
- Java Version: 1.7.0_07, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 423491976 bytes (403 MB) / 514523136 bytes (490 MB) up to 954466304 bytes (910 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 33525158 ----------


And tried running in Win7 compatibility mode:
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 11/4/12 12:06 PM
- Minecraft Version: 1.4.2
- Operating System: Windows 7 (amd64) version 6.1
- Java Version: 1.7.0_07, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 423484072 bytes (403 MB) / 514523136 bytes (490 MB) up to 954466304 bytes (910 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 f797b64d

Me and my friend are having the exact same problem only on vista/xp. I have an amd ati radeon hd 3200 and idk what he has. I am also the one who has vista. Please Help!

Same exact issue with the same exact card, I've tried everything. I briefly got it to work yesterday in switching the 4200 graphics with the microsoft basic adapter, but that doesn't seem to be working anymore. I've tried downloading tons of different driver packages, all claiming to be the solution, none of which have made my switchable graphics feature work as it did pre-windows 8.

Its weird because it says java has stopped responding but i can see the error thing.

I have the latest video card drivers, i dunno what's wrong.

Fixed. Downloaded wrong drivers from 2008! Hope you figure out the prob

I have a ATI Radeon HD 3200 and I'm having this same issue when i try and run it in windows 8. but the game still work just fine for me under windows 7

A friend of mine found a solution to this. It involves tricking windows into downgrading the ati driver. This is what he did:

What I did was to download a legacy version of AMD Catalyst for Win 7 (version 12.6).

Then I uninstalled all AMD components via Control Panel and rebooted.

Ran Catalyst 12.6 setup and rebooted. Found that the win 8 version of the Display adaptor still persisted even if I unistalled it specifically via the Device Manager. Of course I couldn't update this backwards to the Win 7 version
so I gave up on that method and updated the Windows 8 adaptor to the Microsoft Basic Adaptor. This then allowed me to update from the Basic adaptor it to the Win 7 version and it seems to be working.

See also:
http://www.minecraft...dows-8-the-fix/

I confirm that Balrog226's solution worked. Thank you!!!! Download a legacy version of AMD Catalyst for Win 7 (version 12.6). In Device manager, change to the Microsoft Basic Adapter, reboot. In device manager, navigate to Catalyst folders location specific to 12.6 and install. I had to poke around a bit, but it installed and after a reboot worked fine.