OpenGl driver problem with Windows 8

[Sarah Morlidge]

Can anyone help with some technical support? We are running Lenovo PC's with Windows 8 Pro in our school tech lab. Last year I used MiecraftEDU .982 and it worked fine. Since then we have installed Windows 8, but still same machines. Today I installed MinecraftEDu .984 (which works fine with my Windows 8 pc at home) - I can start the server just fine, but when I start minecraftedu I get the following message:

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 4/15/13 5:16 PM

- Minecraft Version: 1.3.2
- Operating System: Windows 8 (x86) version 6.2
- Java Version: 1.7.0_17, Oracle Corporation
- Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode, sharing), Oracle Corporation
- Memory: 605098136 bytes (577 MB) / 709558272 bytes (676 MB) up to 709558272 bytes (676 MB)
- JVM Flags: 2 total; -Xmx700M -Xms700M
- LWJGL: 2.4.2
- OpenGL: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Is Modded: Very likely
- Type: Client
- Texture Pack: ~ERROR~ NullPointerException: null
- Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]

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: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(Minecraft.java:303)
 at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:659)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT 529173a9 ----------

I have 15 very disappointed boys - I looked for updates to our video card on the Lenovo website, but we have the latest. I also tried to find a WDDM 1.2 driver, but when I installed it I just got a message that my WDDm1.1 driver was the most up to date one available. Does anyone have any bright ideas how can we fix this?
All the best,
Sarah Morlidge

 

[EduElfie]

That may be a Minecraft based error rather than a MinecraftEdu specific, but my first stop would be to install one of the later development versions of MinecraftEdu available in the members area and see if that fixes it.

Elfie.

[Joel Levin]

Definitely sounds like a driver problem.  Make sure you are using drivers from your graphics card manufacturer that are specifically for Windows 8.

http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/928781-error-no-accelerated-opengl-mode

~Joel

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[Matt Coia]

I had that happen on a couple of my computers after installing windows7. I went into device manager and updated the video drivers...all fixed. 

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