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Apple released an SMC update (http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/14/apple-releases-retina-macbook-pro-smc-update-to-address-gaming-frame-rates-and-fan-issues/) for Macbook Pro Retina laptops this week that was supposed to fix some issues relating to performance of video games & some fan stuff. This morning I hopped on my Minecraft server with no issues for a bit. Then, a few hours later when I got into work, I performed the SMC update. After it was done I decided to see how Minecraft looked afterwards.

Right now it launches, gets to the login screen, accepts my credentials.. then I see the loading screen (with the green bar) flash very briefly before the screen goes black. I tried launching it from the command line to see if any exceptions were being thrown or anything, and this is all I see:


# java -d64 -Xmx2048M -Xms2048M -cp ./minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame
asdf
229 recipes
27 achievements
2013-03-15 11:17:11 [CLIENT] [INFO] Setting user: phobologic
(Session ID is xxxx)
2013-03-15 11:17:11 [CLIENT] [INFO] LWJGL Version: 2.4.2

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(I removed the Session ID because I'm not sure if that's sensitive or not, but it was along string - looked perhaps like a UUID).

Anyway, not sure what is going on. Is there anything else I can do to troubleshoot this? Thanks!

I just forced an update and that didn't fix things either. It finishes the update then everything goes black.

I just attempted to contact Apple about this and like I expected they are saying this is something that the developer of Minecraft will have to address. Is there any way to contact the developers? I attempted a bug report, but was sent here because the issue was a 'technical support' issue.

Ok, one last update - I think I've fixed this. I'm not sure what is up, but I noticed that my graphics card was stuck to the integrated card. Using gfxStatus I forced it to discrete, and the game came up. Hope that helps anyone else that might be having problems.