Hey,
My brother updated his graphics card today, but since then Minecraft won't start anymore.
The launcher keeps telling us, that it fails at the OpenGL part.
After that, a popup appears, leading to some site that tells us to update the already updated drivers.
After searching on Google for over a hour and watching every solution fail, I've resorted to asking on the forums.
What I've tried so far:
Updating the drivers (again)
Using the auto-tool of the card's manufacturer
Going back to an earlier driver (since it worked before)
Windows "Automatically search for new drivers"
Deleting .minecraft (of course with backup)
Deleting options.txt
Using different minecraft version (1.7.9 & 1.8)
Changing OpenGL-Option to false in options.txt (was already on false)
Using newer graphics card (computer won't even start anymore, thus not an option)
Here is the log that dxdiag provided me with: Link
The error I get from the launcher is: OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
There wasn't anything else noteworthy in the error, as it only consisted of successful checks and such.
The only other failed check was a language ressource check, which is strange, but shouldn't cause that much damage.
I hope this thread meets the guidlelines and you guys can help me and my brother out.
BTW, english isn't my main language, so please consider this when reading my post. Although I can do better, I'm pretty angry right now because nothing is working, including the editor here on the forums. So please ignore any language problems in this post and stay on-topic. Thanks.
If somebody already posted the exact same dxdiag log to the exact same problem and got a solution not on the list of tried solutions, please give me the link.
Also, the OS is Windows 7 32bit, with java being on version 1.7.0_67.
My brother updated his graphics card today, but since then Minecraft won't start anymore.
The launcher keeps telling us, that it fails at the OpenGL part.
After that, a popup appears, leading to some site that tells us to update the already updated drivers.
After searching on Google for over a hour and watching every solution fail, I've resorted to asking on the forums.
What I've tried so far:
The error I get from the launcher is: OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
There wasn't anything else noteworthy in the error, as it only consisted of successful checks and such.
The only other failed check was a language ressource check, which is strange, but shouldn't cause that much damage.
I hope this thread meets the guidlelines and you guys can help me and my brother out.
BTW, english isn't my main language, so please consider this when reading my post. Although I can do better, I'm pretty angry right now because nothing is working, including the editor here on the forums. So please ignore any language problems in this post and stay on-topic. Thanks.
If somebody already posted the exact same dxdiag log to the exact same problem and got a solution not on the list of tried solutions, please give me the link.
Also, the OS is Windows 7 32bit, with java being on version 1.7.0_67.
Thanks in advance,
Pamasich
This is a driver from MS Windows and will not work for Open GL games.
You need this driver: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=Legacy1&os=Windows 7 - 32