i recently brought MINE craft after playing it on my friends pc,  this is the specs of my laptop WIN xp  sp3 512 mb ram , 60 gb hdd 1.73 ghz cpu, 128 graphics ... went i go to play mine craft i get this error about bad vido driver  and it also says i should up date the video driver when i have the latest driver for the graphics. i find this rather strange beacuse i can run DAWN of war dark crusade and portal (on the lowest graphics setting)  but i cannot run a game built in java any help would be much apricated   this is the error i have whene trying to play mine craft .... (the laptop im using is a hp compaq nx6110)


      Bad video card drivers!     
      -----------------------     

Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.
This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers.



--- BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 --------
Generated 12/01/11 22:13

Minecraft: Minecraft Beta 1.1_02
OS: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
Java: 1.6.0_23, Sun Microsystems Inc.
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Sun Microsystems Inc.
LWJGL: 2.4.2
[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoos ePixelFormat(Native Method)
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choose PixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createW indow(WindowsDisplay.java:185)
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:311)
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:856)
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
   at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:279)
   at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:641)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT 36e942ab ----------


the Client requires more oomph then the browser version, and both are hardly the "lite and simple" games that many people like to paint them as. Sure, it looks like a simple game but it is not- It get's my GPU and CPU fans running full tilt after a few minutes, which I cannot even say of Just CAUSE 2.

Aside from trying This driver, which is reported to work for some people, you should also make sure Java is updated.

Also, the two games you noted both work when the pixel format is emulated. Minecraft(or more precisely Java) requires that it be accelerated for whatever reason.yeahhh i have just updated java now would there be any way to accelerate  the pixcels ? Quote from: blackrainbow on January 12, 2011, 04:00:49 PM

yeahhh i have just updated java now would there be any way to accelerate  the pixcels ?