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Minecraft crashes on AMD GPUs

Driver issue causing Minecraft to crash on computers with AMD GPUs installed.

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Written by Alex
Updated over 8 months ago

There is a known issue with AMD GPU drivers that causes Minecraft to crash on startup just before the window appears.

When Minecraft crashes due to this issue, a JVM crash log named hs_err_pidXXXXX.log is generated in the instance folder, and its summary is also printed to the live log.

The summary states that the EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at the problematic frame in atio6axx.dll:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007ff871b32b60, pid=12345, tid=54321
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment Microsoft-8035246 (17.0.8+7) (build 17.0.8+7-LTS)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Microsoft-8035246 (17.0.8+7-LTS, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, compressed class ptrs, g1 gc, windows-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [atio6axx.dll+0x192b60]
#
# No core dump will be written. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# https://aka.ms/minecraftjavacrashes
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

Example of a crash log summary.

If you are experiencing this crash, updating your drivers using the installer from the official AMD site should resolve the issue.

Screenshot of the AMD support web page. The button to download Windows Drivers is highlighted.

If you still experience crashes, try uninstalling AMD Adrenalin software, as it is also known to cause crashes like this.

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