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So it's been a few months, and I felt like getting back on Minecraft. Trouble is, the launcher keeps crashing.

I have tried to search around for issues similar to mine and it seems to be that I'm in trouble, I can't seem to find an update for my graphics card and I can't really replace it, nor can I afford to replace my laptop right now.

*My questions are:*
Can I go back to a previous version of Minecraft that did work fine for me?
Would I then have to get an old version of Java?
Could it run out of the new launcher?
Is there any other way to be able to play it without spending money replacing parts that I haven't thought of to ask?

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Don't be sad. I'll do better next time, I promise!

Time: 11/03/14 10:41 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:252)
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 azl.ad(SourceFile:325)
at azl.f(SourceFile:696)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:148)


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:252)
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 azl.ad(SourceFile:325)

-- Initialization --
Details:
Stacktrace:
at azl.f(SourceFile:696)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:148)

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.7.5
Operating System: Windows Vista (x86) version 6.0
Java Version: 1.7.0_51, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot™ Client VM (mixed mode, sharing), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 4179624 bytes (3 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
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
Launched Version: 1.7.5
LWJGL: 2.9.1
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
GL Caps:
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Resource Packs: []
Current Language: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Anisotropic Filtering: Off (1)

DxDiag:
https://gist.github....e44039b874856a6

And I have Java 7 update 51, I'm going to assume it's the 64 bit version because my cmd.exe didn't recognise "java -version" not certain how else I could get it...

The different messages at the beginning of the crash report are cute, too!

Thanks for reading, If there is anything I may have forgot to mention just let me know.

Whaaat? I see what you mean... "Current Mode: 1366 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)"

But when I [Windows+PauseBreak] that shows up as a 64 bit Operating system. Is that what it's capable of doing, then?

Anywho, I'll download this and let you know. Thanks for posting.

I tried the second one you posted, knowing my kind of luck it didn't go so smoothly. /:

During the install a message came up - "Could not load file or assembly 'CLI.Implementation' or one of it's dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified." It continued to install so I let it go, then near the end it said "Application Install: install package failure." But it still went on after that. Then It made it to the end and showed me a log saying that failures had occurred during installation.

I'm not sure what to do now...

Catalyst™ Install Manager
Installation Report
03/12/14 21:32:03

Hardware information
Name: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device ID: 0x95c4
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Class Code: 0x030000
Revision ID: 0x00
Subsystem ID: 0xff01
Subsystem vendor ID: 0x1179

Existing packages
AMD Catalyst Install Manager
AMD APP SDK Runtime
AMD Display Driver
HDMI/DP Audio Driver
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Catalyst Control Center

Packages for install
AMD Catalyst Install Manager
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 8.0.877.0
Size: 20 Mbytes

AMD Display Driver
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 8.970.100.1100
Size: 90 Mbytes

HDMI Audio Driver
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 6.58.0.6606
Size: 1 Mbytes

Catalyst Control Center
Final Status: Success
Version of Item: 2013.0429.2313.39747
Size: 150 Mbytes

Other detected devices
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device ID: 0xaa28
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Class Code: 0x040300
Revision ID: 0x00
Subsystem ID: 0xaa28
Subsystem vendor ID: 0x1002

Error messages
Application Install: install package failure!

Ok, I've got Minecraft working now. So I'll leave this here for future reference should anyone have the same problem.

I checked to see if I had any updates for Windows, and there was one. The check box hadn't been ticked when I did my update last, so it didn't install. It was for '.NET Framework'. After installing and rebooting I thought I'd have another try at opening Minecraft again and *ohmigosh* it worked!

Still without AMD Catalyst, but that's another problem for another day.

Thanks for all your help, cestislife.