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Hello Minecraft Forum,

Recently after upgrading to Windows 8, I updated Minecraft to the latest version (1.4.6) and upon logging in, received this error message:

	  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 1/7/13 9:29 AM
-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.6
Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.7.0_09, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 456953744 bytes (435 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: Caleb's Painterly Pack.zip
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 54ccfab7 ----------

You can view my system specifics here (you have to scroll a bit to get to the "graphics" section): http://speccy.piriform.com/results/W35jRfSpDaZ4K1cPtckRMAh

Thanks in advance for any help I may receive.

Graphics


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LogMeIn Mirror Driver

Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)

Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)

You need to get (if it is even possible) a video driver that has Open GL support. You'll have to go to intel.com to get it IF you can.

Intel's web site says here that it has no plans to support that chipset on Windows 8.
There are Windows 7 drivers for it, sometimes you can use drivers across windows versions. (There were some GPUs that only supported Vista drivers on Win 7).

Ah well. Microsoft and their junk. Thanks for the help, I guess I'll just wait 'til this laptop breaks or something else tragic happens to it.