Put the summary of the bug you're having here
What I expected to happen was...:
minecraft would load without crashing
What actually happened was...:
minecraft would not load and crashed
Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to load game and it crashes
2. ...
3. ...
Environment
OS: Windows 8.1 (ver 6.3, arch amd64)
Java: 1.8.0_25 (by Oracle Corporation)
Launcher: Minecraft Launcher 1.6.11 (bootstrap 100)
Minecraft: 1.7.9 (updated Mon Apr 14 09:29:23 EDT 2014)
Duplicate of MC-38527. Your render distance is set too high for older versions of minecraft.