The first error was 97 – which related to Java … installed the latest version, then I got 87 as the error message … this related to the ATI registry key … goggled this and found the following:
For whatever reason, the AMD Catalyst Drivers for Windows 8 Consumer Preview are broken when it comes to 64-bit OpenGL there missing a registry entry critical to its functionality. Specifically, whenever an application (like Minecraft using Java 64-bit) requests OpenGL access, AMDs atig6pxx.dll kicks in. It then peeks inside HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}000 and loads the OpenGL component as specified by OpenGLVendorName (64-bit) or OpenGLVendorNameWow (32-bit).
While the bits are there, the 64-bit registry entry is missing completely
Just save the following as a .reg file and run it no need to restart.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}000]
“OpenGLVendorName”=hex(7):61,00,74,00,69,00,6f,00,36,00,61,00,78,00,78,00,2e,\
00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00,61,00,74,00,69,00,6f,00,36,00,61,00,78,00,78,00,\
2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00,00,00
Copy the bold text portion from above, save as a file on the desktop (ie. ati_fix.reg) and then double click it. Answer yest to merging the text and then the game runs.
Why aren’t these placed as bulletins on the forum?