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Alright guys... so I just attempted to set up my little brothers computer... Everything went smoothly- factory restored and upgraded to windows 8. I've been spoiled however; using a mac for the past couple of years. So when I tried to open his minecraft, I got this error and have absolutely no idea how to fix it (this is my first time ever experiencing windows 8 so I don't really have any idea what I'm doing).

We can open it to the login screen. We click login, it goes to the updating page, updates, then opens to another page which then gives us the error message.

Here's the error we got when opening it:

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 12/17/12 7:22 PM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.5
Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.7.0_10, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 427841696 bytes (408 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
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 6357d3f1 ----------

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So I searched this forum and youtube a bit and the only solutions I've found were for windows 7 and lower. So any suggestions?

...Oh... wow... I'm an idiot.

How should I post it? Pastebin or something?

Edit:

So I'm in the device manager and tried to update the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 nForce 630i option, but it says it's up to date... So I guess I'll go through each of them one by one attempting to update every option..

Quote from ryabear

...Oh... wow... I'm an idiot.

How should I post it? Pastebin or something?

Edit:

So I'm in the device manager and tried to update the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 nForce 630i option, but it says it's up to date... So I guess I'll go through each of them one by one attempting to update every option..

No, device manager does not include openGL drivers with windows update. You must install from Nvidia directly. http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-32bit-306.97-whql-driver.html

Well that's inconvenient. Downloading it now, I'll update you once I get it all set up. Thanks a bunchGah-

"NVIDIA Installer cannot continue.

This NVIDIA graphics driver is not compatible with this version of Windows. This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware."

Uh oh