Can surface pro x sq2 run Minecraft Java and install recent versions of OpenGL ?

Thanks,

i thought it would work for any Windows Arm64 Device, but on my Samsung Galaxy Book S it does not work. These arm64-Versions are not listed as installable versions. I made a clean new installation of the Minecraft-launcher and deleted the .minecraft-directory first...

Perhaps adiantek has any clue how to fix it or to run minecraft on this similar Device.

Thanks for your help!

Here are a couple screenshots of what you should see based on my following the same instructions provided by adiantek.

First, there should be a folder (created by you) named 1.17-aarch64 under %appdata%.minecraft\versions\ as shown below. And yes, there should be a corresponding entry for it in the client under the Version dropdown list when you go to create a new installation.

Below is what you should see in the 1.17-aarch64 folder (once the launcher downloads the jar file; probably after you create an installation with it the first time):

Finally, this is what the installation looks like once you've created one and edited the Java executable path. Your native ARM64 java path might be different than mine, so be sure to pick the correct location when you edit this path (I used the Microsoft distribution of Java 16, but there is at least one other out there that has ARM64 builds):

I was originally confused about setting up a custom version too (never did it before), so hopefully some visuals will help.

In directory versions you must have directory 1.17-aarch64 and in directory 1.17-aarch64 you must have 1.17-aarch64.json. So, you must have the file:
%appdata%.minecraft\versions\1.17-aarch64\1.17-aarch64.json

Jar file will be downloaded automatically by the launcher.

You can't edit 1.17.json, because the checksum is checked and the launcher will detect that there is a different version of 1.17.json than the Mojang server, so the launcher will restore the previous version.

Thanks for your quick answer!

Did it right now... When i do that new installation (or what do you mean with "start" in the launcher), there is still no "1.17-aarch64" in the list of installable versions. is this right or should there be "1.17-aarch64" in the list? if i choose the normal 1.17 there is of course a crash. if so, any idea what went wrong?

or should i try deinstalling minecraft and start from scratch?

thanks in advance

(my son nearly kills me for buying that "cool" WoA64-"Notebook" ;-) )

It's impossible to run <1.17 (exactly <21w10a) versions due to OpenGL legacy version. It will be possible when Microsoft release OpenGL 2.0 to DirectX Compatibility Pack (personally I think they don't release, but it's only my opinion) or if somebody rewrite entire game to new OpenGL version.

I downloaded your aarch64.json file from github. But i don`t know, how i can start it in the actual launcher. When "new" install, there is no 1.17-aarch64 entry to select.

your instruction says:

Download 1.17-aarch64 / 1.17.1-aarch64 and put it into your .minecraft\versions\ directory.

Do you mean in the root directory of versions?

Run 1.17-aarch64 / 1.17.1-aarch64 from Minecraft Launcher using downloaded java (openjdk-aarch64) without any JVM Arguments (you can keep -Xmx2G).

how can i run this 1.17-aarch64 in the original launcher? it is not in the list for a new install. Or have i simply to copy your json in root of versions and then run a "normal" new 1.17.1 installation?

Have you tried playing older versions of the game ? And see how they run.