People told me to install java so I did so, it still doesn't work. Everytime I open Minecraft through Minecraft launcher it crashes a few seconds later. Do I have to get Windows 7 or 8? Because apparently Minecraft should be able to run on Vista. I look at the developement console after the crash and the messages can vary, but often it will say,
A fatal error has been detected by the java runtime environment:
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x4db2ee80, pid1976, tid=19648
it also says: "failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on clients version of windows". Assuming that they're important, how do I enable them?
It also says that the crash happened outside the java virtual machine in native code and that the game ended in a bad state (exit code 1)
I tried to narrow it down to the parts that seemed important as it was pretty long, if anyone could help in anyway I would appreciate it very much.
Added (1). As you can tell I'm kind of a pc noob. My laptop is a Toshiba satellite L300D that has not been modded or customised at all. I think you should be able to know what specs I have from that but I'm not sure. I will do what you said and then update when done
Added (2). Windows® Vista® Home Premium Edition
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57
Toshiba TruBrite® WXGA TFT High Brightness display
120 GB
1,024 MB
DDR2 RAM (667 MHz)
ATI Radeon® X1250
maximum life: currently no official Windows Vista® battery benchmark result available
weight: starting at 2.49 kg
W x D x H: 362 x 267 x 33.0 (front) / 37.7 (rear) mm
according to some website these are the specs