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I was playing Minecraft just fine a few hours ago. I go to play it, and I get this error message. I saw someone else made a topic about this, but his computer is different than mine, and I couldn't even find what was suggested to him.

My laptop is only 2 days old, has 8GB of RAM, and a separate graphics card.

This is the error message I got. Any help on how to fix this problem would be very well appreciated.


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 1/26/13 2:48 AM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.7
Operating System: Windows 8 (amd64) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.7.0_11, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 421816000 bytes (402 MB) / 514523136 bytes (490 MB) up to 954466304 bytes (910 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 7302fa7b ----------

Hi, Aukertet, i have the same exact problem, my computer is brand new as well! I also get that message when my card is updated to its fullest.. have you tried this....
(depending on if you hve a PC)
Go to the start button in the bottom left corner
Click on control panel
Click on Device Manager
Click on display adapters
Click on the one that pops up under it
Click on drivers
Click on Update

****Didnt help me much but it may work, its wortha shot!!!!!********************88
<3 SkyBuscus

Thank you SO much skybuscus13. It told me it was all updated, and had me restart my laptop. When it turned back on, I was able to run Minecraft perfectly. Thank you for the help!