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Hi there fellow minecrafters,
I suddenly got this error message this morning when i started up my minecraft for probably the 100th time.
It has never ever happened to me before and i have not modified the client at all.
I have tried to update the video drivers but that did not solve the problem. Believe it or not I am playing minecraft on an Acer TravelMate 4070 with extended desktop. I am running Win XP SP2
Here is the text of the 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 19/01/13 3:46 PM
-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.7
Operating System: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_11, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 416362360 bytes (397 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 faa94355 ----------"

Thx and Please Help!

Quote from epikal

If it was working then this may simply be lack of available RAM, try launching via [Launcher] Magic Launcher 1.0.0 (mods, options, news) with 512m to 800m allocated.
You can also try: Control Panel -> Display -> Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot > move Hardware Acceleration to the middle.

If it still fails post a dxdiag log: How to get the DxDiag log and how to post it.

Thankyou so much. The magic launcher worked 1st time.
BTW My laptop has 2GB of RAM

Quote from okal

If it was working then this may simply be lack of available RAM, try launching via [Launcher] Magic Launcher 1.0.0 (mods, options, news) with 512m to 800m allocated.
You can also try: Control Panel -> Display -> Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot > move Hardware Acceleration to the middle.

If it still fails post a dxdiag log: How to get the DxDiag log and how to post it.

I have a problem,when I change the options,it said "new settings cannot be registered to the registry" please help me!