[MC-69172] Earlier versions crash game after playing 1.8-pre1

After playing 1.8-pre1 on a map, changing to a earlier version and trying to load any map causes a crash. (Tested 1.7.2, 1.7.4 and 1.7.10)

This has happened to me twice now and I had to delete all appdata to fix the problem.

Crash reports attached.

Linked issues

duplicates

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

Attachments

crash-2014-08-24_13.08.53-client.txt

crash-2014-08-24_13.15.59-client.txt

crash-2014-08-24_13.29.00-client.txt

Comments

migrated 2014-08-24T03:37:05Z

Dupe of MC-38527

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

CubeTheThird 2014-08-24T03:37:11Z

Duplicate of MC-38527. You have your view distance set to values invalid for versions lower than 1.8. Please keep in mind that downgrading isn't supported.