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Alright, so here's the problem. Recently, I upgraded to windows 8 and ever since i have been unable to play minecraft. the crash report is below. I did a lot of searching around and basically all i heard was "update your drivers, its a simple as that... duh" but that doesn't work. I heard about the whole "notch denying support to Microsoft on windows 8" thing and i'm pretty sure that's the problem. So, any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

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 1/27/13 9:14 PM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.7
Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.7.0_11, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 422599824 bytes (403 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 928a4a19 ----------

fyi, notch denied selling minecraft in the windows 8 app store. Seeing as how minecraft runs off java, as long as java updates for windows, minecraft will work for windows.

As for the problem, it does appear to be a driver issue... (seeing as it is listing a pixel issue) I know it may sound like a broken record, but try a clean install of your graphics drivers. Otherwise, try updating the LWJGL to a more recent version, (not the newest, the version before), as this is the java backbone minecraft runs on, and is the graphical backbone.

you can download a new driver
thats how i fixed it because i also had the same problem

if your drivers are intel u cant get them from intel website it is a pain in the ars if you tell me the name of your driver ill shoot you a link