On certain computers, the game will crash after the Mojang logo if it is in Fullscreen mode. Sometimes, if one is fast enough getting the app to windowed mode and the game was the first thing started after a fresh system restart, the game will finish loading and work, so long as it is left in windowed mode. However, the game doesn't respect its own settings to load in windowed mode on subsequent executions and switching to fullscreen mode crashes the game immediately.
The game is being run on a laptop computer with "Switchable Graphics" where the low-power GPU is an AMD Radeon HD 8650G (integrated into the APU A10-5750M). The gaming GPU is a Radeon HD 8970M. Graphics drivers are limited by the 8650G to AMD's 15.7.1 and 16.2.1 beta releases ( https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows%2010%20-%2064 ) which are installed and working properly in all other games and applications. Forcing the Minecraft App to use one GPU or the other has no effect on the crash.
Alexis Cox
This is an ongoing problem to this day.
On certain computers, the game will crash after the Mojang logo if it is in Fullscreen mode. Sometimes, if one is fast enough getting the app to windowed mode and the game was the first thing started after a fresh system restart, the game will finish loading and work, so long as it is left in windowed mode. However, the game doesn't respect its own settings to load in windowed mode on subsequent executions and switching to fullscreen mode crashes the game immediately.
The game is being run on a laptop computer with "Switchable Graphics" where the low-power GPU is an AMD Radeon HD 8650G (integrated into the APU A10-5750M). The gaming GPU is a Radeon HD 8970M. Graphics drivers are limited by the 8650G to AMD's 15.7.1 and 16.2.1 beta releases ( https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy3&os=Windows%2010%20-%2064 ) which are installed and working properly in all other games and applications. Forcing the Minecraft App to use one GPU or the other has no effect on the crash.