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Hello Minecrafters,

I usually play Minecraft on my Dad's very nice laptop, Windows 7, 4GB of RAM, top of the line video cards. It always works great, however, I got grounded from the laptop, and have nothing to do over Spring Break!! So, I figured, why not use my old computer? I play Microsoft Flight Sim 2004 and IL-2 Sturmovik on it, both of which are very complex 3-D flying games. I figured Minecraft would run perfectly, but I keep getting issues on running it! I get these error messages after trying to start Minecraft:




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 3/12/13 10:58 AM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.7
Operating System: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_13, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 418101088 bytes (398 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 9a942731 ----------

I have already tried to update my video card driver after going on the intel website and updating my drivers, with no success. I would really like to play minecraft in the comfort of my own room, and just play it at all!

I have a Windows XP Optiplex GX620 with Intel Pentium 4, 1GB of RAM.

Please help!!

Thank you,

jman42

You must do more than TRY to update your drivers. That is your only hope.
Your current drivers do not have Open GL support which means that MC will not work.


Looks like Optiplex's have Intel GMA 950s, try this guys solution: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/354888-fix-for-intel-gma-950-graphics-problems/