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Ever Since I installed Windows 8, Minecraft does not work on it anymore, like many other posts have said. I am aware of Notch saying that he wont make minecraft compatible for win. 8, but many other people have said that it works fine for them, even on windows 8. Here is what pops up:
Bad video card drivers!
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Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.
This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers.



--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 --------
Generated 11/21/13 8:40 PM

- Minecraft Version: 1.4.2
- 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: 99838296 bytes (95 MB) / 128516096 bytes (122 MB) up to 954466304 bytes (910 MB)
- JVM Flags: 2 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx1G
- AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
- LWJGL: 2.9.0
- OpenGL: ~ERROR~ RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
- Is Modded: Very likely
- Type: Client
- Texture Pack: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
- Vec3 Pool Size: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null[failed to get system properties (java.lang.RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.)]


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 net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:232)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT d6f4d528 ----------

Can someone please help me? Ive gone to other topics and there was one which I could do, only ALL of my card drivers are by Microsoft!! what do I do??!?also, How do I update my minecraft? I thought I had 1.7.2 but it seems to be on 1.4. whatever...

to get 1.7.2, you must download the new launcher:
https://minecraft.net/download