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Hello,

I have recently purchased the PC Minecraft version and have been getting errors when attempting to start.
Below is the system requirements I found online, followed by my system specs, and finally the "Minecraft Crash Report".

Any ideas?

Thank you much for your time.


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Recommended Requirements:
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CPU : Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 (K8) 2.6 GHz MINE:
RAM : 4GB MINE:
GPU : GeForce 6xxx or ATI Radeon 9xxx and up with OpenGL 2 Support (Excluding Integrated Chipsets) MINE:

Software Requirements:
Minecraft Release 1.2.5 or newer. Older versions will need to be updated to current versions
Java (Java SE 6 Update 32 or Java SE 7 Update 4 or newer is preferred)
Please note that some users experience issues playing Minecraft while using a mismatched version of Java for their operating system (32 or 64 bit), while using certain versions of Java 7, or while multiple versions of Java are installed

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My System Specs:
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Windows 8 Pro (x64)
AMD Athlon II X4 Proc 3.0GHz
4GB RAM
ATI Radion HD 4200
Java build 1.7.0_25-b17 (no other JRE's)

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---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
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// Everything's going to plan. No, really, that was supposed to happen.

Time: 7/22/13 5:08 PM
Description: Initializing game

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:244)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at ats.O(SourceFile:297)
at ats.d(SourceFile:599)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:101)


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- Head --
Stacktrace:
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:244)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at ats.O(SourceFile:297)

-- Initialization --
Details:
Stacktrace:
at ats.d(SourceFile:599)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:101)

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.6.2
Operating System: Windows 8 (amd64) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.7.0_25, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 29896696 bytes (28 MB) / 60293120 bytes (57 MB) up to 954466304 bytes (910 MB)
JVM Flags: 1 total; -Xmx1G
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
Launched Version: 1.6.2
LWJGL: 2.9.0
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Resource Pack: Default
Current Language: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null