[MC-77918] Minecraft crashes as soon as I select a world .

Repro steps:
1. Run Minecraft
2. The profile is set to use version 1.7.9
3. Select a world (multi-player or single player)
4. ...crash

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 06:29:23 PDT 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

migrated 2015-02-21T21:42:49Z

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