After hearing about minecraft for a while, I figured I'd head over to Minecraft.net and see what all the fuss was about. After watching a few tutorials, I was hooked on the concept and decided to buy the game.
After paying for the game, I tried to fire up the app using the in browser version. It worked but it was dreadfully slow. No prob– I noticed that there was a downloadable version so I figured I would give it a try. When I launch the game, I get an error about a bad graphics card driver. After a bit of googling,I learned that this is usually about the need for openGL support. I've yet to find a driver that fixes the problem but I wonder if i need too.
Is there something that I can do to get this game to work like it does in the browser? Maybe a passing the exe a couple of parameters? I am quite curious. Why would the game work in the browser but not from the download? What's the difference?
Best Answer
This issue is mainly to do with Minecraft and not your video card or even your system. Im using an old Dell Latitude x300 laptop with integrated Intel card and play the game just fine (v1.5+). So, most of the answers you may find are from non techs so ignore them. It has more to do with JAVA.
What I have done is to download and use MCPatcher as a launcher since you can allocate memory through it under the Options Tab. You dont have to run any Mods to get this to work and speed up your Minecraft.
MCPatcher http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/232701-611-update173-compatible-mcpatcher-hd-fix-210-02/
Try setting the memory to, like say, 128 first then bring it up later if this works for you.