Minecraft

[Ddude The Insane]

DON'T DO IT

DON'T UPGRADE THE RAM

I was planning to upgrade my RAM, so one night I simply removed my RAM sticks, took picures and put them back, and now I'm spending two weeks without a computer, waiting for HP to replace the motherboard. >__>

I have the new RAM, but I'm terrified to install it once I get the computer back. xD I'm also a bit worried about putting my graphics card back in...

But anyway Once I get the comp back, I'm going to get a Tekkit server running. Anyone here interested?

[Magical Girl Mimi]

I wouldn't do it on my own. Despite having changed my own RAM once, I'm still cautious myself, so I'd just wait until I had someone to confirm I'm not doing it wrong. =P

Sounds cool; if I ever get actual Minecraft(Because Classic's inevitable, whether it be my laptop or my computer. =P), then I'd probably like to play on it. =)

[Canama]

DON'T DO IT

DON'T UPGRADE THE RAM

I was planning to upgrade my RAM, so one night I simply removed my RAM sticks, took picures and put them back, and now I'm spending two weeks without a computer, waiting for HP to replace the motherboard. >__>

I have the new RAM, but I'm terrified to install it once I get the computer back. xD I'm also a bit worried about putting my graphics card back in...

But anyway Once I get the comp back, I'm going to get a Tekkit server running. Anyone here interested?

Don't short everything out next time

[Ddude The Insane]

DON'T DO IT

DON'T UPGRADE THE RAM

I was planning to upgrade my RAM, so one night I simply removed my RAM sticks, took picures and put them back, and now I'm spending two weeks without a computer, waiting for HP to replace the motherboard. >__>

I have the new RAM, but I'm terrified to install it once I get the computer back. xD I'm also a bit worried about putting my graphics card back in...

But anyway Once I get the comp back, I'm going to get a Tekkit server running. Anyone here interested?

Don't short everything out next time

The computer had been off for a while, I unplugged everything and I was grounded the whole time. I have no idea what happened >_>

@Blade: Tekkit's a fairly performance-heavy mod...so yeah.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

I'm assuming tweaking settings on the options wouldn't help, then? =P It'd likely definitely be my computer, because that at least has 2 Gig of RAM(I'm curious if it can handle more, I don't think it's maxed out, so there's hope for it still. =P). Because unless this thing can handle 4 Gig of RAM, a 3x upgrade, there's little hope of it running Minecraft without any lag at all. =P Now, Classic, what I'm looking into, might be possible, since it's the older version and all. I don't have very much hope, but that still remains and otherwise, there's at least a use for my Desktop now. =P

[mtmerrick]

playing classic does not require a paid account. however, SAVING your progress on classic does.

[Canama]

playing classic does not require a paid account. however, SAVING your progress on classic does.

You can download a saved file to your computer without a premium account. However, the dl'd files haven't really ever worked for me.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

MTM: I had meant an account period, but I made one anyway, since I plan on eventually getting the paid version.

Canama: Oh yeah? But you can't actually save your world, correct? Just load up other worlds?

[Canama]

You can save it to your computer, you just can't save it to the 'cloud' I guess

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Ah. Wish I had've known that before it stopped responding. Ah well, shouldn't try anyway, it might not have liked that anyway.

I'll try it on my desktop tomorrow. =)

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Oh boy...

Tried to start Minecraft on my desktop.

Code:

Failed to start Minecraft
org.lwjgl.LWGJL exception: Pixel format not accelerated.

Got that error message.

... Yeah... Anyone mind explaining to me how my admittedly inferior laptop can run something my desktop can't? -_-;

[mtmerrick]

Never seen that error before......

*Googles*

Force-update your gpu drivers

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah; I'm thinking it's a GL problem, which I need a driver update for.

The problem is; there aren't any real recent drivers for Windows 7, since ATI/AMD seemingly ended support for it, and aren't concerned with updating for Windows 7. >_> And apparently the recent drivers for Vista are buggy on the computer, since it's not Vista...

[mtmerrick]

If its running W7 it should be pretty easy to get proper drivers......

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Hmm. Well, again, there's no proper Windows 7 support, because it was dropped after Vista... =/

[mtmerrick]

Oh, wow. xD

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah, there's a chance the Vista drivers would work; but that's what I meant when I said I believed they were tried, and didn't work. =P

[mtmerrick]

...have you considered just stepping down to XP?

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Heh, Vista's so bad it's not even considered. =P

I don't know yet. I myself would rather just upgrade the graphics card, to be honest. Might be cheaper in the short term, but it'd be easier in the long term(For everything except a couple things, like Paint. They ruined Paint in 7.) to just upgrade the graphics card. Would make sure that I can run things, and if I knew it could handle high density models, then that would help me get the courage to experiment a lot with Blender. =P

[mtmerrick]

well, seeing as 7 is the best desktop OS ever made, I would recommend upgrading the GPU if you can, but it could be pricy, hence my suggestion.