I usually play 1.10.2, and it works fine. I tried to play version 1.11.2, it works but it had this message saying that I should install Java 8 because it might prevent me from playing in the future, or something like that.
I went to the Java website and installed Java 8. After the installation, I uninstalled my old version of Java and replaced it with the new one. I opened my Minecraft launcher to try 1.11.2, but it crashed. So I tried to play 1.10.2 again (because it's the only version for me that worked) but it crashed as well. 1.10.2 didn't crash when I still had my old version of Java.
Is it modded?
I installed OptiFine for 1.11.2, it also crashes but I tried again WITHOUT the OptiFine. It still crashed.
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I also have OptiFine installed for 1.10.2 and works well but now it crashes too, even without OptiFine.
Please help, I really want to play but it keeps crashing. Is it because of the new version Java? If so, why would Minecraft recommend that I should install it WHEN it keeps crashing my game? It's driving me crazy
Without a crash log it'll be hard to figure this out, but it sounds as though the launcher is not seeing the newer JAVA installation
When you say 'I opened my Minecraft launcher to try 1.11.2, but it crashed' so you mean the launcher crashed as soon as you opened it, or that the launcher started up OK, but when you tried to start 1.11.2 the game crashed ??
(I'm assuming the launcher starts up OK since you say you tried 1.10 again)
If the launcher start up OK, click on 'Launch option' & look at the 'Java executable' line.. is it greyed out & showing '<use bundled Java runtime>' or something different ?
If it is showing something different, perhaps the path has something like '\jre\1.7.0\' in it - then it possible it's trying to find the old JAVA version - which you have uninstalled
- try turning it 'off' so that it uses the version that comes with Minecraft (the path for this is something like 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_25\bin\javaw.exe') & see what happens
Yep that looks like it - & judging by the 'JRE7', I THINK that's java 1.7
Even if it isn't, I googled JRE7 & it seems that that particular version has been superseded to JRE9 anyway - both of which are 'Oracle' version of Java.
What the difference between this version and (what I call) proper JAVA I don't know.
Have you tried browsing to 'c:\program files\Java\' & seeing what folders you have in there.
It's possible you don't have a JRE7 folder (since you said you uninstalled JAVA 1.7) but you may have something else (perhaps a 'JRE8' or a 'JRE1.8.0_51' ??) - try changing that JAVA setting you've shown in the launcher to point to a folder that's in the JAVA folder & see what happens
(you'll just have to change the 'JRE' bit to the name of whatever you have in the JAVA folder)
One other thing I seem to notice is that it looks as though you are using the older Minecraft Launcher...
The settings I was talking about is in the newer launcher (see attached picture), so whether this is another possible cause to your problem I'm not sure.
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Hello, I'm new to the minecraft forums.
I usually play 1.10.2, and it works fine. I tried to play version 1.11.2, it works but it had this message saying that I should install Java 8 because it might prevent me from playing in the future, or something like that.
I went to the Java website and installed Java 8. After the installation, I uninstalled my old version of Java and replaced it with the new one. I opened my Minecraft launcher to try 1.11.2, but it crashed. So I tried to play 1.10.2 again (because it's the only version for me that worked) but it crashed as well. 1.10.2 didn't crash when I still had my old version of Java.
Is it modded?
I installed OptiFine for 1.11.2, it also crashes but I tried again WITHOUT the OptiFine. It still crashed.
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I also have OptiFine installed for 1.10.2 and works well but now it crashes too, even without OptiFine.
Please help, I really want to play but it keeps crashing. Is it because of the new version Java? If so, why would Minecraft recommend that I should install it WHEN it keeps crashing my game? It's driving me crazy
Any help would be appreciated.
Bump.
I really need help on this one.
Without a crash log it'll be hard to figure this out, but it sounds as though the launcher is not seeing the newer JAVA installation
When you say 'I opened my Minecraft launcher to try 1.11.2, but it crashed' so you mean the launcher crashed as soon as you opened it, or that the launcher started up OK, but when you tried to start 1.11.2 the game crashed ??
(I'm assuming the launcher starts up OK since you say you tried 1.10 again)
If the launcher start up OK, click on 'Launch option' & look at the 'Java executable' line.. is it greyed out & showing '<use bundled Java runtime>' or something different ?
If it is showing something different, perhaps the path has something like '\jre\1.7.0\' in it - then it possible it's trying to find the old JAVA version - which you have uninstalled
- try turning it 'off' so that it uses the version that comes with Minecraft (the path for this is something like 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft\runtime\jre-x64\1.8.0_25\bin\javaw.exe') & see what happens
Are you talking about this one??
Yep that looks like it - & judging by the 'JRE7', I THINK that's java 1.7
Even if it isn't, I googled JRE7 & it seems that that particular version has been superseded to JRE9 anyway - both of which are 'Oracle' version of Java.
What the difference between this version and (what I call) proper JAVA I don't know.
Have you tried browsing to 'c:\program files\Java\' & seeing what folders you have in there.
It's possible you don't have a JRE7 folder (since you said you uninstalled JAVA 1.7) but you may have something else (perhaps a 'JRE8' or a 'JRE1.8.0_51' ??) - try changing that JAVA setting you've shown in the launcher to point to a folder that's in the JAVA folder & see what happens
(you'll just have to change the 'JRE' bit to the name of whatever you have in the JAVA folder)
One other thing I seem to notice is that it looks as though you are using the older Minecraft Launcher...
The settings I was talking about is in the newer launcher (see attached picture), so whether this is another possible cause to your problem I'm not sure.