URGENT HELP REQUIRED - MY MUM IS THREATENING TO UNINSTALL MINECRAFT FROM HER LAPTOP!!
I accepted the latest update but at 74% complete I got a error message that said "unable to complete update" ok I thought I will just continue to use the previous version but no, every time I try to log in I keep seeing the incomplete update screen with the bar stuck at 74% & it won't let me go any further - SO I CAN'T PLAY!
AND WORSE! this is on my mum's laptop & ever since the update failed her computer barely works!!!! It is sooo slow it has taken me nearly 30mins from turning it on to getting this far! usually it would take less than 2 minutes!
The latest Java is installed & updated but I'm no tech geek, I have no idea. If I can't fix this my mum will uninstall minecraft from her laptop!! if she does that will I lose my worlds I have saved?
Have you tried deleting the .minecraft folder inside AppData?
Maybe that should work;
When I updated from 1.4.7 to 1.5 I had to do that because of the same problem.
thanks for your quick response. no I havent tried deleting the .minecraft folder inside AppData but i will do that now thanks... like I said I know (almost) nothing about computers so if I do this I won't lose any of my minecraft worlds will I?
thanks for your quick response. no I havent tried deleting the .minecraft folder inside AppData but i will do that now thanks... like I said I know (almost) nothing about computers so if I do this I won't lose any of my minecraft worlds will I?
Go into the .minecraft folder, and then copy/move the 'saves' folder somewhere else. After you do that, you can safely delete the .minecraft folder, and then replace the 'saves' folder when it's re-installed.
I'm assuming you mean to re download minecraft after I deleted it. I did that and when i tried to log in again it started the update and again it stalled. the message I got was "Fatal error occured (4) connection reset retrieving minecraft.jar 15% @ 2.75 KB/sec" any help would be greatly appreciated.
What probably happened, given the acute onset, is an internal component failed. I can't tell which one biased on your description, and I won't hazard a guess. You'll just need to bring it to a computer repair shop and have them figure it out.
I'd like to say that there is basically zero chance that Minecraft caused your computer to break.
that's the thing, minecraft IS open. It's open from the time I log in & then when I hit the download button (now that I have deleted the file as per above I've had to download it again) it gets to a certain point and freezes, when it does this my computer slows down to a stand still. when I originally tried the update it got to 74% before it froze. I got an error message - computer slowed down - I deleted the file, computer returned to normal. I tried to download it again & it stalled & I got this message "Fatal error occured (4) connection reset retrieving minecraft.jar 15% @ 2.75 KB/sec" . Computer slowed down again to the point that I could not get to this forum without it taking ages but once I again deleted the file my computer picked up speed.
Completely separate to the speed problem (I dont think minecraft has stuffed my computer) I would like to know what has caused the update to fail and then cause each of the downloads to fail too as the computer including minecraft was running fine before I tried the update.
Hey hey hey! I had the same problem! I tried over and over again (not at this update, and I didn't get freezes when MC was closed)!
It was the "Antivirus program" that made it freeze. I turned it off while downloading, and It got to 100%. Try it out, mayby it helps.
I accepted the latest update but at 74% complete I got a error message that said "unable to complete update" ok I thought I will just continue to use the previous version but no, every time I try to log in I keep seeing the incomplete update screen with the bar stuck at 74% & it won't let me go any further - SO I CAN'T PLAY!
AND WORSE! this is on my mum's laptop & ever since the update failed her computer barely works!!!! It is sooo slow it has taken me nearly 30mins from turning it on to getting this far! usually it would take less than 2 minutes!
The latest Java is installed & updated but I'm no tech geek, I have no idea. If I can't fix this my mum will uninstall minecraft from her laptop!! if she does that will I lose my worlds I have saved?
Maybe that should work;
When I updated from 1.4.7 to 1.5 I had to do that because of the same problem.
Go into the .minecraft folder, and then copy/move the 'saves' folder somewhere else. After you do that, you can safely delete the .minecraft folder, and then replace the 'saves' folder when it's re-installed.
Yay.
Why the update failed and why the computer is freezing up are probably caused by the same thing: something else.
What probably happened, given the acute onset, is an internal component failed. I can't tell which one biased on your description, and I won't hazard a guess. You'll just need to bring it to a computer repair shop and have them figure it out.
I'd like to say that there is basically zero chance that Minecraft caused your computer to break.
Completely separate to the speed problem (I dont think minecraft has stuffed my computer) I would like to know what has caused the update to fail and then cause each of the downloads to fail too as the computer including minecraft was running fine before I tried the update.
It was the "Antivirus program" that made it freeze. I turned it off while downloading, and It got to 100%. Try it out, mayby it helps.