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I am seeing that Minecraft 1.5.1 crashes in Mountain Lion VM. This happens whether the VM was created by VMware fusion 5 or Parallels Desktop 8. I verified that this happens with a clean install of Mountain Lion. I have experimented with all of the settings I can.

Here's what happens. I ran the client, log in to my account, and it installs updates, then the screen goes black and gives me the following crash report. Please help!


---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Surprise! Haha. Well, this is awkward.

Time: 3/23/13 8:14 AM
Description: Failed to start game

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Could not create pixel format
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(MacOSXPeerInfo.java:55)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXPeerInfo.<init>(MacOSXPeerInfo.java:50)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXCanvasPeerInfo.<init>(MacOSXCanvasPeerInfo.java:49)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXDisplayPeerInfo.<init>(MacOSXDisplayPeerInfo.java:48)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.MacOSXDisplay.createPeerInfo(MacOSXDisplay.java:246)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:854)
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:235)
at avv.a(SourceFile:56)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:507)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.5.1
Operating System: Mac OS X (x86_64) version 10.8.2
Java Version: 1.6.0_43, Apple Inc.
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Apple Inc.
Memory: 402345728 bytes (383 MB) / 518979584 bytes (494 MB) up to 1037959168 bytes (989 MB)
JVM Flags: 3 total; -Xbootclasspath/a:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaApplicationLauncher.framework/Resources/LauncherSupport.jar -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

Quote from sammykerslammy

OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

That's your problem. OpenGL To my understanding, OpenGL is used to render 2D/3D computer graphics through a GPU, or a Graphics Processing Unit. When I used to use my Mac (no parallels/bootcamp ect ), I never needed to worry about drivers. Now, when I bootcamped my Mac, I had to get drivers for my Radeon 5670. Now, I'm not sure exactly how Parallels works, but to my understanding it runs the Mac OS, but you can also use Windows extensions with it. Have you downloaded any drivers since you setup Parallels? To fix this, get to your Minecraft folder by going to Library -> Application -> Application Support -> Minecraft in there, there should be an "options" text file, open it. find where it says: advancedOpengl:true and change the true, to false. This does't solve the real problem, but it fixes Minecraft.

I still see this issue when I install the "tools" add-in for Parallels Desktop 8 and VMware Fusion 5. These have drivers that allow the VM to function a little better. I also made sure 3D acceleration was enabled for both of the VMs. None of these addressed the issue.

I was able to open the Users/admin/Library/Application Support/minecraft folder but I don't see an option file like you describe.

Can you double-check that this file exists on the latest minecraft client for Mac?

Thanks for the suggestion. I copied this LWJGL auto-updater to the downloads folder (along with the minecraft app) and forced an update.

Unfortunately, minecraft still crashes in a similar way (black screen and then a LWJGLException: Could not create pixel format)

On the Minecraft Launcher it mentions that there is an OpenGL crash for Mac OSX, so next update this will probably be fixed.

Thank you for that suggestion. I will wait for the next update. I was wondering what the "Notable: Crash on Mac OS X" on the launcher screen meant.

Quote from ramo486

On the Minecraft Launcher it mentions that there is an OpenGL crash for Mac OSX, so next update this will probably be fixed.

Quote from sammykerslammy

I was able to open the Users/admin/Library/Application Support/minecraft folder but I don't see an option file like you describe.

Ok then, what is in that folder?