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Hi,
Experienced a crash and was reading up on posts to try and determine root cause and a resolution. I was focused on the Problematic frame: # C [ig4dev32.dll+0x3e88] and responses associated to earlier posts. It appears that it might be my graphics card? I was able to log and play earlier versions of minecraft but not 1.7.4. I do have an older machine, Dell Optiplex 745, it has 2GB memory and a dualCore chip. My display adapter is an Intel(R) Q965/Q963 Express chipset family. The driver is up to date. Anyone have any advice?

Unfortunately your graphics card wont support Minecraft after the new version (along with many others, including myself) since it now requires a new version of OpenGL.

That's the popular opinion anyway, I haven't seen any official confirmation on this. It could very well be a bug.

It's a Windows error if you can't fix it with removing and re-installing graphical chipset drivers. This can be literally anything and I don't think it's a Minecraft problem. But I can tell you with 100% accuracy the graphic card isn't obsolete or outdated for use of Minecraft. OpenGL doesn't run as a standalone service on Windows, it goes through DirectX. Which means you can't really do anything about it as long as you are running Windows. But that's how Windows works and gets you to buy new things.