Thanks for chiming in Jamie, but this doesn't seem to be the solution in this case. First of all, the Nvidia driver fix fixes a CRASH with java, while this issue is not a crash at all, it is simply the launcher not being able to find it's own provided java, so it doesn't even try to start anything, much less getting to a point where anything could actually crash. Secondly, my driver works fine with the same version of minecraft and java with the old launcher, this is a new problem spesific to the new launcher.
That being said, since my Nvidia drivers was a couple of months old (I wasn't on the affected version), I did upgrade them to the newest version with the hotfix anyway, but no difference in behavior.
Remy Monsen
Thanks for chiming in Jamie, but this doesn't seem to be the solution in this case.
First of all, the Nvidia driver fix fixes a CRASH with java, while this issue is not a crash at all, it is simply the launcher not being able to find it's own provided java, so it doesn't even try to start anything, much less getting to a point where anything could actually crash.
Secondly, my driver works fine with the same version of minecraft and java with the old launcher, this is a new problem spesific to the new launcher.
That being said, since my Nvidia drivers was a couple of months old (I wasn't on the affected version), I did upgrade them to the newest version with the hotfix anyway, but no difference in behavior.