Hi- I'm writing as a dad that does not understand Minecraft too well, but I have two daughters who will guide me through this post!
They have seperate accounts and Minecraft 1.5.2 on their computers (both Macs). My iMac is the "guinnea pig" for the new version, (mine being OSX 10.6.4), so I dowloaded the new launcher- which, I guess, had 1.6.1 with it. I signed in with one of my daughter's accounts, and the game runs fine- right until you try to make the small game screen bigger. Then i get the standard "Mac grey screen" saying that I need to re-start my computer. 1.5.2 has never done this, so I uninstalled Minecraft (including emptying the java cache) and re-installed 1.5.2 from a previous saved downloaded zip file. It installed fine, and plays just like normal- you can make the screen large, small, and anywhere in between.
I don't know if downloading the pre-release before the official release date might have been the problem. My question is: if, for some reason, 1.6.1 can't be run on my daughters computers, and they want 1.5.2 instead, will the new installer be "forced" during the installation- even if I'm using a previously downloaded 1.5.2 installer? I wouldn't think so, but I wanted to make as certain as possible before doing ANY updating tomorrow.
Hi- I'm writing as a dad that does not understand Minecraft too well, but I have two daughters who will guide me through this post!
They have seperate accounts and Minecraft 1.5.2 on their computers (both Macs). My iMac is the "guinnea pig" for the new version, (mine being OSX 10.6.4), so I dowloaded the new launcher- which, I guess, had 1.6.1 with it. I signed in with one of my daughter's accounts, and the game runs fine- right until you try to make the small game screen bigger. Then i get the standard "Mac grey screen" saying that I need to re-start my computer. 1.5.2 has never done this, so I uninstalled Minecraft (including emptying the java cache) and re-installed 1.5.2 from a previous saved downloaded zip file. It installed fine, and plays just like normal- you can make the screen large, small, and anywhere in between.
I don't know if downloading the pre-release before the official release date might have been the problem. My question is: if, for some reason, 1.6.1 can't be run on my daughters computers, and they want 1.5.2 instead, will the new installer be "forced" during the installation- even if I'm using a previously downloaded 1.5.2 installer? I wouldn't think so, but I wanted to make as certain as possible before doing ANY updating tomorrow.
thanks for your time!
I use 10.6.8 for 1.6 and it works fine, (I has a first generation mac book pro, do you have an old computer/laptop?
I have the same problem in OSX 10.5.8 but I thought it was ok in 10.6 and above. It runs no problem on Lion. OSX 10.5.8 I can only run it in the small launch window. Full screen or maximised window just locks it up.
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They have seperate accounts and Minecraft 1.5.2 on their computers (both Macs). My iMac is the "guinnea pig" for the new version, (mine being OSX 10.6.4), so I dowloaded the new launcher- which, I guess, had 1.6.1 with it. I signed in with one of my daughter's accounts, and the game runs fine- right until you try to make the small game screen bigger. Then i get the standard "Mac grey screen" saying that I need to re-start my computer. 1.5.2 has never done this, so I uninstalled Minecraft (including emptying the java cache) and re-installed 1.5.2 from a previous saved downloaded zip file. It installed fine, and plays just like normal- you can make the screen large, small, and anywhere in between.
I don't know if downloading the pre-release before the official release date might have been the problem. My question is: if, for some reason, 1.6.1 can't be run on my daughters computers, and they want 1.5.2 instead, will the new installer be "forced" during the installation- even if I'm using a previously downloaded 1.5.2 installer? I wouldn't think so, but I wanted to make as certain as possible before doing ANY updating tomorrow.
thanks for your time!