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I recently got Minecraft but not from the website, I paid for a code and everything seemed ok. When I tried to play the game a thing came up saying it crashed and then a message popped up saying The game crashed whilst initializing game

Error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: GLFW error 65542: WGL: The driver does not appear to support OpenGL.

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BaneBerry
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    Which website did you get this from? – Ben Apr 05 '19 at 05:35
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    "but not from the website"? You should never buy Minecraft anywhere else than on minecraft.net! Immediately refund that payment! – Fabian Röling Apr 05 '19 at 05:35
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    Well I got the code from amazon and it has worked for other people one person I know. It worked for them fine. The person I asked for help that has Minecraft said it would not matter if I got it from Minecraft.net and she also got her brother that was good with computers and it still did not work. – BaneBerry Apr 05 '19 at 05:49
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    Using gift cards or buying it directly is just a matter of personal taste. The game would still be the same. Just don't buy it on some 3rd party key stores and only download the game from minecraft.net. – dly Apr 05 '19 at 07:11
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    Just to be clear - did you download the game not from the website, or did you buy a code not from the website and then download the game from the website? – user253751 Apr 05 '19 at 23:20
  • Do you have any shaders enabled? I have seen those cause these kinds of errors on otherwise fine systems. – Henry Malinowski Apr 06 '19 at 02:19
  • No I do no have any shaders enabled. – BaneBerry Apr 06 '19 at 03:08
  • @iMalinowski doesn't seem like that would be the case; this seems like a fresh vanilla install that fails to boot – xTerrene Apr 06 '19 at 20:56
  • Could you perhaps tell us the specs on your device? – OKprogrammer Feb 22 '21 at 01:59

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It looks like your graphics card doesn't support OpenGL or your drivers are outdated.

  • For dedicated graphics cards, go to the card manufacturer's site (Nvidia, AMD etc.) and download the driver for your card and OS.
  • For integrated graphics, go to your motherboard manufacturer's site and download the driver for your motherboard and OS. Make sure you download the correct driver because quite a lot of older motherboard don't have Win10 drivers for example and installing Win7 drivers will cause problems.

There's also a guide on how to upgrade your drivers on Minecraft's page.

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