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Tried booting minecraft with the exe and throught the site, said something about bad drivers. Heres the error log.


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 12/8/12 1:52 PM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.5
Operating System: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_09, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 751632384 bytes (716 MB) / 1037959168 bytes (989 MB) up to 1037959168 bytes (989 MB)
JVM Flags: 3 total; -Xbootclasspath/a:C:\\PROGRA~2\\Java\\jre7\\lib\\deploy.jar;C:\\PROGRA~2\\Java\\jre7\\lib\\javaws.jar;C:\\PROGRA~2\\Java\\jre7\\lib\\plugin.jar -Xmx1g -Xms1024M
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Suspicious classes: No suspicious classes found.
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
LWJGL: 2.4.2
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
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 ff3063e ----------

I have windows 7 64 bit with an integrated graphics card. The graphics is the Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1) I tried it with 32 bit java and then 64 bit java installed, neither worked. Should i have both on my machine? thanks for the help guys

btw, i updated all of my drivers and everything

gotta bump guys. i really wanna play minecraft:)

come on guys:)

Buy a video card driver. If you were able to play Minecraft without the Bad video card drivers! message in the past, then your video card drivers are dead, but your computer should've told you by a sequence of 6 beeps (If you have a Dell computer). You're using an integrated video card driver, and those are not the best you can get. OpenGL is null (Null means no data value, for example: OpenGL: null, which means I have no OpenGL in my video card driver), so you probably have a really bad integrated video card driver. It's not something to do with the software, it's hardware. So do these steps to fix it:

1. Buy a video card driver
2. Open up your computer
3. Look around for dust on the motherboard. If there's any dust, take an air can and spray it away. Then try again.
4. If step 3 failed, then look for a slot and holes. The holes should be near a rectangle icon, meaning monitor.
5. Gently slide your video card driver into the slot. Make sure the holes are the right size of the "outlets"
6. Close up your computer.
7. Connect your video card driver with the monitor. You have to use a modern cable for this, not the one you used for your integrated.

I would prefer this video card driver, this is the one I had before it died, and it was good for modern racing games, using more graphics than Minecraft, it's made by CompuPack, and that's all the important information I can gain, sense it's out of my computer and I can't really scan it.

Quote from lightbulbwindows1000

Buy a video card driver. If you were able to play Minecraft without the Bad video card drivers! message in the past, then your video card drivers are dead, but your computer should've told you by a sequence of 6 beeps (If you have a Dell computer). You're using an integrated video card driver, and those are not the best you can get. OpenGL is null (Null means no data value, for example: OpenGL: null, which means I have no OpenGL in my video card driver), so you probably have a really bad integrated video card driver. It's not something to do with the software, it's hardware. So do these steps to fix it:

1. Buy a video card driver
2. Open up your computer
3. Look around for dust on the motherboard. If there's any dust, take an air can and spray it away. Then try again.
4. If step 3 failed, then look for a slot and holes. The holes should be near a rectangle icon, meaning monitor.
5. Gently slide your video card driver into the slot. Make sure the holes are the right size of the "outlets"
6. Close up your computer.
7. Connect your video card driver with the monitor. You have to use a modern cable for this, not the one you used for your integrated.

I would prefer this video card driver, this is the one I had before it died, and it was good for modern racing games, using more graphics than Minecraft, it's made by CompuPack, and that's all the important information I can gain, sense it's out of my computer and I can't really scan it.

Any reccomendations as to what video card i should buy? Could i possibly spend less than $30? Btw, im on a laptop, is it even possible to add video cards to laptops? My processor is an intel pentium dual cpu t2330 @ 1.6 gHz. Is it even worth it to upgrade in this manner, or should i just get a new laptop?