Minecraft Bad Video Card Drivers Help?-Collection of common programming errors

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discoverer: Nat I have recently bought the game minecraft and I have been having problems getting it to work correctly. I have tried… – Re-installing Java – Updating my video card drivers – Messing with my display (acceleration setting) …but I keep getting this same message below. Please help! 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 3/30/11 6:15 PM Minecraft: Minecraft Alpha v1.2.2 OS: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1 Java: 1.6.0_24, 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.nChoose. Method) at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.chooseP. at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWi. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Di. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.. at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceF. at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Sourc. at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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1. do you have a card that supports OpenGL?