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I just updated my java to version 8 and its not letting me play any version of minecraft,

I am running windows 8.1 on a core i5 2430M @ 2.40ghz 6gb of ram with a amd radeon HD 6470M Graphics.

My launcher is 1.5.3.

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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007ff8c0b1c475, pid=3244, tid=6248
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_25-b18) (build 1.8.0_25-b18)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.25-b02 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [ig4icd64.dll+0x30c475]
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# C:\Users\Gregory\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\hs_err_pid3244.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

You may have a Radeon, but your video driver isn't running the new Java on it and the Intel video driver is crashing.

If you configure your video driver to run the Java 8 versions of java.exe and javaw.ext on the Radeon this problem may go away (and you'll get the performance boost as well)