[MC-75558] it will not let me play on updates lower than 1.8 and my friends play on servers that are 1.7.10 and lower

I have tried to play on 1.7.9 and my game crashed .
when i try to join a server it crashes .

Environment

OS: Mac OS X (ver 10.9.5, arch x86_64)
Java: 1.6.0_65 (by Apple Inc.)
Launcher: Minecraft Launcher 1.5.3 (bootstrap 5)
Minecraft: 1.7.9 (updated Mon Apr 14 08:29:23 CDT 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

Comments 1

kumasasa 2014-12-20T09:51:18Z

Most probably this is MC-38527