Recently I updated from Minecraft 1.5 (old launcher) to the 1.7.2 release with the new launcher; I followed the link from Mojang to download the new launcher, and then ran it.
I was able to get the launcher to download the files for 1.7.2 automatically and it did eventually start the game as normal. The game itself runs fine.
However, the launcher appears to be unstable and unresponsive; it causes my laptop to overheat, and reacts extremely sluggishly to input, if at all, once the green loading bar has filled. The game does not always launch, but if it does, it takes at least five minutes to do so after clicking 'play.' Usually the launcher completely freezes without starting the game and has to be terminated with the Task Manager, at which point a window prompting termination of the Java SE platform also appears, returning the 'App Hangup' error for javaw.exe.
The old launcher was working perfectly fine on the same machine with no freezing, sluggishness, or errors of any kind less than 24 hours prior to the installation of the new launcher. Rebooting did not fix the problem, nor did reinstalling/updating java to the most current version.
Any ideas?
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Recently I updated from Minecraft 1.5 (old launcher) to the 1.7.2 release with the new launcher; I followed the link from Mojang to download the new launcher, and then ran it.
I was able to get the launcher to download the files for 1.7.2 automatically and it did eventually start the game as normal. The game itself runs fine.
However, the launcher appears to be unstable and unresponsive; it causes my laptop to overheat, and reacts extremely sluggishly to input, if at all, once the green loading bar has filled. The game does not always launch, but if it does, it takes at least five minutes to do so after clicking 'play.' Usually the launcher completely freezes without starting the game and has to be terminated with the Task Manager, at which point a window prompting termination of the Java SE platform also appears, returning the 'App Hangup' error for javaw.exe.
The old launcher was working perfectly fine on the same machine with no freezing, sluggishness, or errors of any kind less than 24 hours prior to the installation of the new launcher. Rebooting did not fix the problem, nor did reinstalling/updating java to the most current version.
Any ideas?