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Hello, i am an avid minecrafter. We just recently found an old laptop with a humongous ammount of ram! However this computer wont run minecraft. Heres the steps i have taken soo far.

1. Reinstalled java
2. Checked for intel driver updates (none)

And when i run minecraft i get this error code.

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// My bad.

Time: 10/7/13 6:26 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 atv.O(SourceFile:297)
at atv.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 atv.O(SourceFile:297)

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

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.6.4
Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.7.0_40, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode, sharing), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 6484064 bytes (6 MB) / 26808320 bytes (25 MB) up to 518979584 bytes (494 MB)
JVM Flags: 2 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx512M
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: 1.6.4
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

Heres some of my computer specs.
WIndows 8
intel core(r) (tm) Duo CPU T2350 @ 1.86 GHz
4.00 Gb Of ram 3.24 Unusable ( ??????????????? Any ideas on fixing this?)
32 bit operating system, x86 based processer

And if you care at all windows rates it like so
prossesor (calculations per second) Score:4.3
Memory (ram) (memory operasion ps) Score 4.5
Graphics (desktop graphics preformince) score 3.1
Gaming grapics (3d gaming and graphics preformance) score 3.1


Any idea what i can do i would rather not buy new hardware but if i must then i shall! Thanks

I looked around, as far as I can tell there is no fix for this. To me it looks like a GPU problem. What GPU do you have?