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I recently bought a new laptop partly because my old one has poor performance playing Minecraft. I keep getting an error and it contunines to say the problem is an outdated graphics card. I have since updated my graphics card and I am still encountering the same issue. The computer has 4 gb of ram, an i5 processor, 250gb of space and a 256MB NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS3100M. The error is as follows:

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// I just don't know what went wrong
Time: 2/17/15 1:52 PM
Description: Initializing game
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:252)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at bss.an(SourceFile:526)
at bss.ak(SourceFile:355)
at bss.a(SourceFile:302)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:124)

A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- Head --
Stacktrace:
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:252)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at bss.an(SourceFile:526)
at bss.ak(SourceFile:355)
-- Initialization --
Details:
Stacktrace:
at bss.a(SourceFile:302)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:124)
-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.8.1
Operating System: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java Version: 1.8.0_25, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 99374200 bytes (94 MB) / 157687808 bytes (150 MB) up to 523501568 bytes (499 MB)
JVM Flags: 6 total; -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx512M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Xmn128M
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
Launched Version: 1.8.1
LWJGL: 2.9.1
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
GL Caps:
Using VBOs: No
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Resource Packs: []
Current Language: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)


I am really not sure where to go from here, but if I must or if I do not get a response soon I am going to return the computer.

Try updating your graphics card. "Pixel format not accelerated" is usually an error with outdated drivers.

Download your drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us. Just put the right info in and you can find the latest driver for that.