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So I've got the dreaded "Bad video card drivers" error. My issue with it is that Minecraft was working perfectly fine on this system less than half an hour ago, and the OpenGL has somehow suddenly become un-accelerated for no reason.

Nothing has changed on my computer since then. Using Intel integrated graphics, which is the thing that seems to produce the error from what I've read. I had it before and I'd solved it at one point, but I forget how I did so.

Nothing I've tried via Google seems to have worked. Updated Java, my video card drivers, everything I could think of to update. Reinstalled Minecraft completely. Reinstalled Java 7. Downgraded to Java 6. Updated LWJGL. System restore back to a time when it was working. Nothing has fixed the issue.

I'm almost ready to reformat my computer and see if THAT fixes the thing.

Posting mainly because of that funny thing that happens sometimes where as soon as you ask for help somewhere, your issue magically resolves itself. (annnnd nope. Still happening)


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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 11/13/12 3:29 PM

- Minecraft Version: 1.4.2
- Operating System: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
- Java Version: 1.7.0_09, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 415597240 bytes (396 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 e3ecad1f ----------

Happens from time to time on my laptop, even after various workarounds, no apparent reason for it, but after a few tries, it sometimes just fixes itself.

I've looked it up, and my card supports OpenGL 2.0.0. Not sure what that means exactly, but MC ran fine before so I'm not sure why it would suddenly decide a year or two in "oh hey, your drivers actually *are* terrible, sorry". This was before the 1.4.4 update happened even, so that wasn't it. >_<

Bleh, guess I'll just hope for the best from time to time.