Gothrung

I agree, it is super annoying. I hope that traffic is monitored on bugs so that these complaint comments rank it higher.

This also happens with villagers.

I also doubt it's a driver issue for a couple reasons. I had this same issue and when I open minecraft with the laucher icon in the .minecraft folder, minecraft starts and runs. I too updated my drivers and other software and it didn't allow me to start minecraft 1.9 worlds when I launched from the minecraft icon.

1.9 confirmed

I have the same problem and clicking the java launcher icon works for me also. The game is still consistently crashing seconds after loading a world when I open it using the Minecraft desktop shortcut or from the start menu.