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Friday, October 5, 2012

Fatal LWJGL Exception Error:Pixel format not accelerated


I ran into a problem playing minecraft/java games on my laptop with integrated graphics. 

I recieved a message;
"Fatal LWJGLException.
This may be fixed by googling the following error.
Error:Pixel format not accelerated"

I ran dxdiag (direct x diagnostics) and dumped a log file. My video driver showed up as

Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)

If you have "(Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)" after the card name, you have the display drivers installed by Windows, installing the later ones from your card manufacturer should resolve this.

After I installed  "win7_1512754.exe Version:15.12.75.4.1930" from intel's site and ran dxdiag again, the card showed up as

Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family

Your card and PC should certainly run Minecraft and any other java game that gave the LWJGL Exception.

2 comments:

  1. Thank you, this was pretty useful :D

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  2. Wanted to know if you have solution for Windows 8 ...
    Here's giving the same error message, only that version is Win 8 ...

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