Quote from derKonigsten
To those of you having issues:
(NOTE) I am not a professional
-Black screen on world load:
--I had this same problem, think it was because I was using an HD texture pack (photorealism x256) so after the 1.8 update it was still trying to load this HD pack even though certain files needed to be re-patched to support HD.
--Completely erased my .minecraft\texturepacks directory, worlds now load fine
--download latest MCpatcher and run it
--download latest versions of texture packs after making sure they are compatible with 1.8, put these back into the texture pack directory, yadda yadda, minecraft is now beautiful again AND you have an xp gauge! (anyone know what this does by the way?)
-Poor performance issues:
--make sure you have the standalone java and make sure its right for your OS (MAC vs Windows, x32 vs x64, etc...)
--access java settings and increase the memory allocation to it in powers of 2 (if its 512, increase to 1024, 2058, etc..)
--I would not advise allocating more memory than you actually have in your system
GOOD LUCK FELLOW CRAFTERS!
<currently listening to Greenface by Iced Earth... AWESOME>
Might work for some but for others it won't, new lighting system changed the system requirements so you now need a graphics card that can use OpenGL 1.3 instead of 1.2. My graphics card can't be upgraded so my only option would be to get a whole new comp, and seeing how I net the requirements when I paid for the game I should not have to do that.
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Might work for some but for others it won't, new lighting system changed the system requirements so you now need a graphics card that can use OpenGL 1.3 instead of 1.2. My graphics card can't be upgraded so my only option would be to get a whole new comp, and seeing how I net the requirements when I paid for the game I should not have to do that.
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When they changed lighting system it raised the OpenGL from 1.2 to 1.3, a lot of peoples comp can only use 1.2.
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I myself am still waiting for them to fix that whole issue, I know they wanna make the game look nicer with the new lighting but changing the system requirements after we bought the game kinda sucks lol
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1.8 uses opengl 1.3 and alot of mac users are finding out their graphics card can only support up to 1.2, thus causing the crash when you try to load a world
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I have the same problem, my graphics card will only use opengl 1.2 and the new lighting system uses opengl 1.3. Problem many other mac users are having. unless fixed by mojang you would need to upgrade graphics card or snowleapard might allow use of 1.3, two things i dont want to have to spend more money on just to play this game. I bought this with the knowledge it would work and it did, i shouldnt have to spend more money because they decided to change the system requirements after i paid.
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Im in the same boat as you, i really, really hope its a problem that can be fixed on the game developers end. I really want to play the new update and not just be stuck playing 1.7
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When was this pre release version made?