Let me just save you the trouble of responding and telling me to do something that I know for a fact won't fix it. I'm having another one of those "The registry refers to a nonexistent Java Runtime Environment installation or the runtime is corrupted. The system cannot find the path specified." problems. Upon searching the internet, and mostly these forums, I've determined that everyone tells everyone else to "reinstall Java", now's where I zave you some trouble, not only did I not do that just in case I was wrong, but I did have a very strong feeling beforehand that it wouldn't do anything useful. Now, I'm one of the rather tech savvy people and actually do Minecraft modding myself, however, recently when I had problems setting up a Forge development environment, I changed things, and something screwed up my Minecraft, now, from what I can tell, it's the launcher that doesn't work and if I could launch the game manually it would work fine, that's based on the game working fine when I build and test my modded stuff, anyways, the problem... I'm thinking the problem is either having the wrong version of Java setup, or some Environment Variables configured wrongly, so, with that in mind, feel free to give me whatever help you guys think is best. My goal is to play FTB, but the Vanilla Minecraft Launcher won't start either, if it means anything, the Java version of the FTB launcher doesn't work either (I did try launching that manually from the command line with the "Java" command, though i'll admit I wasn't entirely sure what arguments to use).
If you read all that, thanks, if you can help, thanks again, if it solves my problem, thanks a third time.
These forums are provided as is, and to get support you have to be deserving of it and friendly enough to work with people to get help. Speaking in a frustrated tone is acceptable, however acting as though everything we may even suggest has already been done, and doing so in a haughty and self-righteous tone will garner you no attention.
Understanding that you atleast know, how to establish a forge environment saves me time. This is going to be stupid, but there is a process we need to go through to make sure things are done correctly.
Check your environment flags for java, and clear them to your preferred defaults, or to none at all.
Uninstall java. Setting files are generally not deleted from cache when you uninstall a program.
Reboot.
Reinstall java. Decacheck that you have the most recent version, for your supported OS, close down any unnecessary processes, and install java. Dont forget to tell bing to go eat a cactus if it asks for attention.
Flush your %appdata%./minecraft folder.
Boot minecraft, patch to latest jar.
Report findings. If you can run in debug mode, and give us a readout, that'd be A+
Apologies, didn't mean to sound rude, I was rather frustrated at the time, i'd been having an odd problem with my Minecraft src files in Eclipse for Forge dev purposes that was also being difficult, still is actually.
Anyways, I've done as you suggested, cleared any Java related Environment Variables and uninstalled Java, and rebooted and reinstalled Java and it still has the same problem. Oh, I did try doing it with no .minecraft folder as well.
Current standings:
1 fully updated Windows 8
1 installation of Java running: Java 7 update 55
1 fully not operational Minecraft launcher
Alright, so I just had a thought, the TechnicLauncher always required me to download a JRE (it was real specific about which one) so, I was thinking, maybe that will work, the launcher, and I could just put together a copy of FTB Unleashed myself until we get this problem fixed, but... when I went to download the JRE, I found that the Java 7u55 that I downloaded yesterday, was not the "latest" version (makes me wonder why it's the main download link if you just click to download Java without browsing the versions). Anyways, Java JRE 8u5 is what I downloaded and, although I swear I had it installed before, so it wasn't the cause of the problem in the first place... Minecraft, Vanilla, and FTB, and now the TechnicLauncher all work fine.
I'm convinced something you suggested did fix the problem, and that I installed the wrong version of Java, again it's odd that the latest version isn't the main download, so although things work now, I fear that when I go back to modding stuff, that won't work, and fixing that will again screw up everything else. I'll try to make note of exactly what I do that breaks everything this time so I can at least undo it faster.
Anyways, thanks for the help.
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If you read all that, thanks, if you can help, thanks again, if it solves my problem, thanks a third time.
These forums are provided as is, and to get support you have to be deserving of it and friendly enough to work with people to get help. Speaking in a frustrated tone is acceptable, however acting as though everything we may even suggest has already been done, and doing so in a haughty and self-righteous tone will garner you no attention.
Understanding that you atleast know, how to establish a forge environment saves me time. This is going to be stupid, but there is a process we need to go through to make sure things are done correctly.
Check your environment flags for java, and clear them to your preferred defaults, or to none at all.
Uninstall java. Setting files are generally not deleted from cache when you uninstall a program.
Reboot.
Reinstall java. Decacheck that you have the most recent version, for your supported OS, close down any unnecessary processes, and install java. Dont forget to tell bing to go eat a cactus if it asks for attention.
Flush your %appdata%./minecraft folder.
Boot minecraft, patch to latest jar.
Report findings. If you can run in debug mode, and give us a readout, that'd be A+
Godspeed, friend.
Anyways, I've done as you suggested, cleared any Java related Environment Variables and uninstalled Java, and rebooted and reinstalled Java and it still has the same problem. Oh, I did try doing it with no .minecraft folder as well.
Current standings:
1 fully updated Windows 8
1 installation of Java running: Java 7 update 55
1 fully not operational Minecraft launcher
I'm convinced something you suggested did fix the problem, and that I installed the wrong version of Java, again it's odd that the latest version isn't the main download, so although things work now, I fear that when I go back to modding stuff, that won't work, and fixing that will again screw up everything else. I'll try to make note of exactly what I do that breaks everything this time so I can at least undo it faster.
Anyways, thanks for the help.