I recently downloaded WinRAR Archiver hoping to be able to download some mods for Minecraft, and I looked up some mods: Modloader, Minecraft Forge, Optifine, and a mod that adds gems to the game. I was pretty sure I was downloading a working, updated mod, but when I looked at the zip file to make sure it was up to date after I got a black screen after doing everything right, it said 1.2.5! Before what happened is I went into minecraft.jar with WinRAR Archiver, unzipped ModLoader, deleted META-INF in minecraft.jar then pressed CTRL + A and selected all the filed in ModLoader and then copied them into minecraft.jar, after that I did the exact same for Minecraft Forge except I didn't delete META-INF because there was no META-INF until I copied in the Minecraft Forge files, that I didn't delete either. Then I did the exact same for Optifine and didn't delete the META-INF because it was from Forge. Then I loaded Minecraft with all of those utilities and I was so happy because of how well my Minecraft was running. (I use a laptop and minecraft lags a lot when not on a desktop I'm waiting for Minecraft to support laptops and when I installed forge and optifine it went a lot better) Then I quit out and put the zipped mod into the mods folder created by Minecraft Forge then I loaded Minecraft and everything loaded but then I got a black screen! I realized the mod was 1.2.5 but im almost certain I downloaded the latest version! I saw the 1.5.2 download at the website and downloaded that, but then it came out as 1.2.5! I'm trying to download a later version right now but if anyone has any information for me please let me know. Most of my knowledge of Minecraft and Modding and things like that come from youtube videos but that doesn't always tell you everything you need to know. If you have any information my computer is a Windows 7 Dell Inspiron with an Intel Pentium inside and I have a 64-bit operating system and I'm on a PC I don't know if any of that will help but like I said I'm the dumbass looking at the youtube videos! lol!
Minecraft has a black screen after loading mods