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Greetings and salutations my friends, today i am posting a BIG question of mine that i have been actively trying to fix for a few weeks, but to no avail…

This is the error I have, very common I’m assuming…
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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 1/8/13 5:55 PM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.6
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: 399582184 bytes (381 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 330e5dfe ----------



BASICALY put, minecraft has altogether crapped out on me. And I have many reasons on why this may have occurred

1: My laptops ‘ghosting’ (if you aren’t aware of what it is, it wipes the laptop and reinstalls barebones windows.) perhaps a few of the drivers or programs didn’t get installed or installed right. With the reinstallation process of everything, including drivers, java, and anything and everything that has to do with minecraft, I’m not certain it’s that.

2: Hardware and software becoming ‘outdated’, for mine craft, which I seriously doubt, since I played the game on much worse off computers than mine. However, i’m not entirely sure if minecraft has undergone updates that have made it impossible to load on my laptop. I really don’t see how that could happen anyway because even I could play oblivion on my laptop, (of course at a very low pixels and laggy pace) but it still loaded.

3: Updates not working? With a .minecraft 1.2.5 file copy I got from a friend, it works perfectly fine. The second I update, it doesn’t. My guess is that there is a thing added into the updates that makes my laptop have a brainfart.

4: the gods hate me. So far this is likely, since all that has kept me from tearing my hair out has been typing in search bars and in forums about how to fix something like this.

WELL, that is what my thoughts are on this ordeal. Sorry if I have posted in the wrong forum, and PLEASE if you have any information that could help out, it would be greatly appreciated.


SYSTEM SPECS:

System: Windows XP Professional
Model: Dell Latitude D630
Processor: Intel® Core™2 duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Ram: 4 GB of RAM
Display adapters: Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family
DirectX: 9.0c


as an explaination of my fury, i have watched this video, and i still have no progress, and it's the best video (that i have found) on the subject, since it covered everything i could do... other than buy a whole new laptop WHICH is expensive.


*all credit for the video is given to mesiapk for posting the video on youtube, and i relenquish all rights that i may have on it*

(just being careful, can't post something without getting attacked by copyright legalities.)

Have you tried updating your video drivers?

i have tried and failed.

i may be doing it wrong, but to my best efforts, i still have no success with running minecraft.

You could try using MCPatcher's "test" mode, but that's offline and you get no multiplayer and you get Steve skin.

Run this error tester and post the log here. It will likely stop with the same error when it does the test launch, but it gives a bit more info about your hardware and drivers.

[edit]
You also might try the following:
Right click your desktop & select properties> Select 'Settings' Tab > Advanced > Troubleshoot

The hardware acceleration should be on full, try turning it down to about half and try running minecraft.

Quote from rodabon

Run this error tester and post the log here. It will likely stop with the same error when it does the test launch, but it gives a bit more info about your hardware and drivers.

[edit]
You also might try the following:
Right click your desktop & select properties> Select 'Settings' Tab > Advanced > Troubleshoot

The hardware acceleration should be on full, try turning it down to about half and try running minecraft.

the gods hate me... it was the hardware acceleration...

THANK YOU A THOUSAND FOLD, you have given me back my device to kill boredom!!!

the one thing i did not do, or think about was what was screwing up minecraft... like i told my dad when we moved (he was looking for his pool flippers) look in the box you least expect.

So your problem was fixed?