Thanks but I've tried this update. This is the response I get below. Intel doesn't seem to have drivers for the Windows 8 support of this graphics card and any attempt to do a windows update doesn't seem to help.
I'm stumped and can't understand why Minecraft can't work with an otherwise well-regarded graphics card. I suppose the 945 Express Chipset Family might be outdated but I am not sure.
Well-regarded?
Let's just ignore that for now.
The problem is that you have drivers provided by Microsoft, that's why it says "Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)"
Microsoft created a proprietary graphics API called Direct X. Open GL is a non-proprietary graphics API that Minecraft uses.
Because Microsoft doesn't want to encourage anything that competes with it, it does not implement the Open GL API in drivers that it writes.
Intel however does. So if you get an Intel written driver for your Intel graphics, then it should work.
The error you got just says that the auto detect utility doesn't work on Windows 8. It doesn't say that you can't go looking for the right driver manually.
I'm getting this error "Pixel Format Not Accelerated"
Here's my DxDiag https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0d51e01f52fbf2aedc65
Any thoughts?
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I'm stumped and can't understand why Minecraft can't work with an otherwise well-regarded graphics card. I suppose the 945 Express Chipset Family might be outdated but I am not sure.
Let's just ignore that for now.
The problem is that you have drivers provided by Microsoft, that's why it says "Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)"
Microsoft created a proprietary graphics API called Direct X. Open GL is a non-proprietary graphics API that Minecraft uses.
Because Microsoft doesn't want to encourage anything that competes with it, it does not implement the Open GL API in drivers that it writes.
Intel however does. So if you get an Intel written driver for your Intel graphics, then it should work.
The error you got just says that the auto detect utility doesn't work on Windows 8. It doesn't say that you can't go looking for the right driver manually.
Unfortunately it looks like Intel isn't writing Windows 8 drivers for that, because it is old and obsolete. Sometimes you can install drivers for previous OSes and they work. So try the Win 7 driver and cross your fingers: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18223&lang=eng&OSVersion= &DownloadType=Drivers