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Good evening gentleman, I require your assistance on some technical issue today. I would like to be able to run minecraft on my net-book, unfortunately I an getting the infamous "Bad video card drivers!" error. It would seem that the Minecraft launcher thinks that my video card cannot handle Minecraft, but this is wrong. I was able to get Minecraft to run by bypassing the launcher using MCPatcher, and then using "Test Minecraft". It actually ran quite well, considering. So I know that my video card can run Minecraft, but why is the launcher giving me this error. I have updated my video card drivers and they are all current. Does anyone know why this is happening. Any and all input is appreciated. Thank you.

(Error Report Enclosed)

	 Bad video card drivers!	
	 -----------------------	
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 12/21/12 1:37 AM
-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.6
Operating System: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
Java Version: 1.6.0_35, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Sun Microsystems Inc.
Memory: 462645984 bytes (441 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: Default
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 asq.a(SourceFile:56)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT 54f9663 ----------

I too am getting the "Bad Video Card" error w/ 1.4.6. The only thing that changed was minecraft, as my system was running 1.4.5 reasonably well (yes, I had to reduce my "horizon" to "short"). Now all I get is this.... How do I downgrade to 1.4.5 so it once again works??

So, you are saying that 1.4.6 uses a feature of the OpenGL API that was not used in 1.4.5? Okay, I grok that. Surprised me when it first went boom, and it's impractical for me to change OS'es at this time. Guess I'll hope that Christmas brings a newer PC (yeah, it's old - Pentium D).

Thanks for the information... Now off to search for alternate universes :-)