Minecraft – What video card drivers are needed to play Minecraft with an integrated Intel GPU on Windows 8

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I have installed Windows 8 Pro and realized Minecraft doesn't work, and have found a tutorial to find out my device info. What drivers are required with this video card?

Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Device Name: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 3150
Date: 7/25/2012 8:30:14 PM
Model: WDDM 1.0

Best Answer

Many graphics card manufacturers have not yet published updated drivers for Windows 8. Windows 8 comes with default drivers written by Microsoft that will make most GPUs work, but only enough to run Windows itself. These drivers are not made by the GPU manufacturer, so they don't use the hardware very well and provide only the most basic graphical functions to software that wants to use the GPU. Minecraft can't run on a computer with these default drivers.

So the short answer is, for some GPUs there are no Windows 8–compatible drivers that will run Minecraft. Not yet. And if it's a niche GPU, then maybe never.