So disabling your antiviruses and firewalls, shutting down your Discord and run Minecraft. Minecraft helping center has listed software that are known to be incompatible with Minecraft and should be uninstalled from your system.ĭiscord, AVG Antivirus, BitDefender and etc. You’d better end all the background apps before running Minecraft. To get a better gaming experience and improve your computer performance, it’s recommended to update your drivers.

The launcher responds and stays open, Minecraft just works fine.

You could close it and Minecraft would run as usual. If you got two MinecraftLauncher.exe, after fixing the issue, you need to open Settings in the launcher, choose “Keep the launcher open while the game is running”.

Launch Minecraft again to check if it’s working properly.

In the Processes tab, right-click on the Minecraft and choose End task.

Press the Ctrl + Shift + Esc key together on your keyboard to open the Task Manager.

You need to end both tasks and reboot the game. Some users have mentioned that when this issue appears, there’ll be two MinecraftLauncher.exe. Reboot Minecraft may fix the won’t launch issue. If the launcher closed but not start Minecraft after clicking the Play button, you can open the Task Manager to end the task manually. You may not have to try them all just work your way down the list until you find the one that works for you. If you don’t know whether your computer is powerful enough to run the game which is a possible reason for this issue, you can check Minecraft system requirements first. It is really upset when you want to play Minecraft but it won’t launch! Don’t worry, try the solutions below and you can enjoy your game.

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