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!
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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 ----------