Random Freeze on Windows 7 (9400GT)

[Radu287]

Hello Everyone.
I have this problem with my graphics card.
When I run Windows 7 it installs automatically the WDDM driver for my card, everything runs perfectly fine I can play COD4, Far cry 2, Mirror's edge and basically anything no problem. But when I try to play minecraft it says:

"Bad video card drivers!
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Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode.
This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers."

The first thing I do is I download the latest drivers (ver. 285.62) from the NVIDIA website for my card. I install them, restart the computer and I can play minecraft perfectly fine. But the problem is that with the latest drivers my computer randomly freezes (for example when I look at YouTube videos or listen to music in foobar 2000 or anything I do It randomly crashes and the cursor won't even move i have to force reset the PC). This didn't happen with the WDDM drivers that windows 7 installed automatically for me.
I also tried downloading the drivers from the GIGABYTE website for my card (ver. 186.18) and i have the same problem, random freeze.
Now I rolled back to the WDDM drivers in safe mode and it doesn't freeze no more but still, I wanna play minecraft, you all know how addicting that game is!

BY The Way: I tried running the latest drivers in Windows XP Pro SP3 and I have absolutely no problem it doesn't crash or freeze at all.

Is there anything I can do to run minecraft in Windows 7?

Specs:
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
CPU
Intel Celeron 356
Cedar Mill 65nm Technology
RAM
2,00 GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 265MHz (4-4-4-12)
Motherboard
ECS P4M890T-M (CPU 1) 30 °C
Graphics
L1752S (1280x1024@60Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1) (Gigabyte)
Hard Drives
78GB Western Digital WDC WD800BEVE-00UYT0 ATA Device (PATA) 28 °C
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600JB-00REA0 ATA Device (PATA) 37 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N ATA Device
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA ® Audio Controller



My graphics card is GIGABYTE 9400GT GV-N94T-512I

Thanks!

 

[janiashvili]

buy open-gl graphics card(e.g. quadro)

 

[Novuake]

I believe your PC is too outdated. Just not powerful enough.

 

[Radu287]

buy open-gl graphics card(e.g. quadro)

Why? This card can play fine minecraft. It's just the driver problem. How can I get it fixed?

 

[Radu287]

I believe your PC is too outdated. Just not powerful enough.

Please read my post again. The problem isn't the lack of performance. It's the driver freeze issue.

 

[janiashvili]

but, did you download it for Win 7/Vista and not XP? you might had error choosing driver.


And, try to fresh install driver.

 

[Radu287]

I downloaded it for Windows 7 32 bit.

I didn't do a fresh install. How do i do it? Driver Sweeper? And which driver should I install? Latest or 186.18?

 

[janiashvili]

don't know driver sweeper or sweepstaker, but try to uninstall it and install latest, or if you still get that, download ~160s driver(third driver release or so from your cards release)

 

[Radu287]

UPdate: Tried both methods, got the same problem. It seems that the WDDM driver is the only one that works properly for me. Anybody else has the same problem?