Betacraft on windows xp won't start b1.7.3

[idle fractal]

I have no access to internet on the xp device

It tells me that the language file failed to download, i'm guessing bc no internet

But there is an english.txt in the languages folder

Whenever I press play it just says downloading ...

What do I do?

[sharp relic]

well, you need to have internet access to run the version first time

once you do that you can disconnect

you can also do that on another computer and then just move the .betacraft folder over to the xp machine

just make sure to update game directory in the instance when you do that

[idle fractal]

I already did, booted into minecraft and generated a world and then i moved it onto a flash drive and then to the xp pc

I'll give it another try just to be 100% sure

[idle fractal]

It seems to do something but after pressing play pretty much nothing happens

It just shuts off the launcher and nothing appears

Idk if it's because of jre 1.7

I could not get 1.8 to run it just kept saying that it wasnt a valid win32 application

[sharp relic]

yeah you need to get java 8

most likely

this will work for you: http://p.betacraft.uk/jre-8u181-windows-i586.exe

and remember to uninstall java 7 before you install this

[idle fractal]

Alr

[idle fractal]

Whatever i do it keeps saying that the file is not a valid Win32 file even though i get the 32 bit installer, i've tried alot of different java versions and nothing seems to work other than java 7

[sharp relic]

this will not give you that error

[idle fractal]

I've already tried that link and when i boot that one it seems to work for like 1 second, i see it in task menager but then it just turns off for no reason

Should i try windows xp 64 bit?

[sharp relic]

you could also try azul java: https://cdn.azul.com/zulu/bin/zulu8.44.0.11-ca-jre8.0.242-win_i686.msi

[idle fractal]

I'll give it a shot and see what happens

[idle fractal]

I got it working now i just gotta get video drivers, i've tried a ton of them, i still have a few that imma try though

[sharp relic]

what gpu do you have?

[idle fractal]

Gt 610 (specifically the msi N610-1GD3H/LPL)

[sharp relic]

ah, then you should find the drivers without issue

on the nvidia website

[idle fractal]

Yeah i just started downloading them a bit ago, i'll test them soon

[idle fractal]

@sharp relic after a while of trying different installers from the nvidia website i finally found one that worked and i got all the driver that i needed, got java from the zulu installer and now beta 1.7.3 runs at a decent 50 ish frames, thank you for the help!