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I've read other topics similar to the issue I am experiencing but haven't been able to find a solution. I have Windows 8, the latest drivers for my video card and have tried running Minecraft in every compatibility mode available but continue to receive the following error:




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 3/5/13 1:31 AM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.7
Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.7.0_17, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 416751200 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 324a88da ----------


I've also uninstalled my video card driver, rebooted and re-installed the latest drivers. If this has already been solved, I'd appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction or any suggestions/ideas would be greatly welcomed as well. Thank you!!

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated

You need to install your GPUs drivers.

Google and download Speccy and take a screenshot of it or copy the information from the screen and paste it here.

That is only thing that can throw that error honestly, that or the system is just simply not able to run minecraft, but given windows 8 i would at most ASSUME its modernly hardware and would run it.

I thought Windows 8 didn't support Minecraft at all, or was I wrong?

Quote from randommcstuff

I thought Windows 8 didn't support Minecraft at all, or was I wrong?

Works perfectly fine on Windows 8 for me. There's no reason for it to be incompatible at all.
The AppData/Roaming/.minecraft directories are all the same, and as long as it supports Java (what OS doesn't?), it runs fine.

Here are some screenshots from Speccy:

Quote from yooneek

Here are some screenshots from Speccy:

You need to update your video drivers.

Awesome..... thank you all so much! It's working now