[MC-68025] Game crashes when starting

Put the summary of the bug you're having here

What I expected to happen was...:
I wanted to open game to play

What actually happened was...:
it crashes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put a step by step guide on how to trigger the bug here
2. ...click play on the launcher
3. ...crash

Environment

OS: Mac OS X (ver 10.9.4, arch x86_64)
Java: 1.6.0_65 (by Apple Inc.)
Launcher: Minecraft Launcher 1.5.1 (bootstrap 5)
Minecraft: 1.7.10 (updated Wed May 14 12:59:23 VET 2014)

Linked issues

duplicates 1

MC-38527 Crash after changing max view distance to 20 chunks in options.txt / Render distance too high in options.txt after downgrading Resolved

Attachments

crash-2014-08-17_19.21.33-client.txt

Comments 2

galaxy_2alex 2014-08-18T15:37:00Z

Incomplete without a crash report ([minecraft|http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/finding-minecraft-data-folder]/crash-reports/crash-<DATE>-client.txt). Please attach it so that we can diagnose your issue.

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migrated 2014-08-18T19:42:30Z

Dupe of MC-38527

The render distance has been set to an invalid value that isn't supported in 1.7.10. There are instructions in that post to resolve this.