So I just got a new computer and installed Minecraft on it, but it has some horrible video problems. I tried playing BF3 to see if it was my computer but that game ran fine. After searching the internet for a while, I found this from a review of the laptop I bought:
Fair warning: out of the box, I did run into the usual slate of typical Windows incompatibilities, made harder than necessary to solve by Acer's policy of blocking user-installation of normal Intel drivers. Short story: out of the box, Minecraft wouldn't work. After extensive debugging, it turned out to be a conflict between the Acer-certified version of the Intel 4600 video driver which was installed on the computer out of the box (and which, as of the date of this writing, was only around 4 months old) and the much newer version of JRE/Java Runtime Environment available from Oracle. It was easy to verify that newer generic Intel drivers were available, but by default Acer blocks installation of video drivers they haven't certified. So I had to perform a manual removal and deletion of the installed Acer 4600 drivers, reboot using generic Windows drivers, followed by a manual installation of current 4600 drivers from Intel (not Acer), and reboot again. This resolved the problem, but as the computer is marketed as a "gaming computer," it seems reasonable to expect that it wouldn't interpose arbitrary limits on video drivers needed by commonly-played games - or at least allow you to circumvent the block with a simple driver upgrade rather than force you to take these extra steps.
The only thing is, I am not that savvy with computers and can't really follow what he is saying. Can someone give me a more dummy proof guide?
Fair warning: out of the box, I did run into the usual slate of typical Windows incompatibilities, made harder than necessary to solve by Acer's policy of blocking user-installation of normal Intel drivers. Short story: out of the box, Minecraft wouldn't work. After extensive debugging, it turned out to be a conflict between the Acer-certified version of the Intel 4600 video driver which was installed on the computer out of the box (and which, as of the date of this writing, was only around 4 months old) and the much newer version of JRE/Java Runtime Environment available from Oracle. It was easy to verify that newer generic Intel drivers were available, but by default Acer blocks installation of video drivers they haven't certified. So I had to perform a manual removal and deletion of the installed Acer 4600 drivers, reboot using generic Windows drivers, followed by a manual installation of current 4600 drivers from Intel (not Acer), and reboot again. This resolved the problem, but as the computer is marketed as a "gaming computer," it seems reasonable to expect that it wouldn't interpose arbitrary limits on video drivers needed by commonly-played games - or at least allow you to circumvent the block with a simple driver upgrade rather than force you to take these extra steps.
The only thing is, I am not that savvy with computers and can't really follow what he is saying. Can someone give me a more dummy proof guide?