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my daughter took a design class for minecraft last week and in order for her to see what she did and play it we had to buy the pc version well i get home with it and i cant get it to work period. One of my computers is running windows 10 and the other one is windows 8. i dont play games like this on the computer so i have no clue what im doing trying to just figure it out as i go can someone please help me so i havnt wasted all this money and not be able to use it. It codes me that my graphic card driver is outdated but i follow the links and java as well and still no game...................

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// There are four lights!

Time: 7/31/16 3:44 AM
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:247)
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 bcx.ap(SourceFile:598)
at bcx.an(SourceFile:434)
at bcx.a(SourceFile:381)
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 --
Thread: Client thread
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:247)
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 bcx.ap(SourceFile:598)
at bcx.an(SourceFile:434)

-- Initialization --
Details:
Stacktrace:
at bcx.a(SourceFile:381)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:124)

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.10.2
Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2
Java Version: 1.8.0_25, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 81174440 bytes (77 MB) / 148647936 bytes (141 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: 1.10.2
LWJGL: 2.9.4
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
GL Caps:
Using VBOs: Yes
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)
CPU: <unknown>

how do i do that? http://paste.ubuntu.com/21668378/ is this right?

well i just got this one someone gave it to me for helping them move so i hadnt done anything to it yet.........i have one that runs windows 10 that i use...my daughters 10 and real into minecraft so i have been trying to get it going on the pc for they mainly have just used the xbox....i honestly have no clue of what im doing to the most part just learning on how to and the what of things are........i went threw the auto dectet driver update thing and it still dont change anything same thing prompt wise something about graphics....here is the spoiler to my other computer it is doing the exact same thing....http://paste.ubuntu.com/21807934/

okay thanks for all your help.........is linux another os? i havnt heard of it..and do you buy another graphic card or is that something you can download.