So, Windows 8.1 seems to make VBO mode crash the game on certain cards. Does anyone know a fix? I doubt it, since Google didn't reveal anything, but I thought it was worth checking.
[16:21:14] [Client thread/INFO]: Setting user: Elephant_Parade
[16:21:14] [Client thread/INFO]: (Session ID is token:06814886a29d4e2e8c1c6d911230a59a:047ca9c2a03f43dba5be26fcb5dcf374)
[16:21:16] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.1
[16:21:17] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default, faithful32pack.zip, Faithful 32x32 S.zip
[16:21:20] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Starting up SoundSystem...
[16:21:20] [Client thread/WARN]: File minecraft:sounds/mob/ghast/fireball.ogg does not exist, cannot add it to event minecraft:item.fireCharge.use
[16:21:20] [Thread-6/INFO]: Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
[16:21:20] [Thread-6/INFO]: (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
[16:21:20] [Thread-6/INFO]: OpenAL initialized.
[16:21:21] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[16:21:24] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 1024x1024 textures-atlas
[16:21:31] [Server thread/INFO]: Starting integrated minecraft server version 1.8
[16:21:31] [Server thread/INFO]: Generating keypair
[16:21:31] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing start region for level 0
[16:21:32] [Server thread/INFO]: Preparing spawn area: 59%
[16:21:33] [Server thread/INFO]: Elephant_Parade[local:E:ec9047db] logged in with entity id 349 at (47.6276627688256, 64.0, 301.88779168081027)
[16:21:33] [Server thread/INFO]: Elephant_Parade joined the game
[16:21:33] [Server thread/INFO]: Changing view distance to 5, from 10
[16:21:36] [Chunk Batcher 0/WARN]: Needed to grow BufferBuilder buffer: Old size 524288 bytes, new size 2621440 bytes.
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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x000000000ccfc933, pid=2524, tid=4336
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_51-b13) (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.51-b03 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [ig7icd64.dll+0x6c933]
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\hs_err_pid2524.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed
[error occurred during error reporting , id 0xc0000005]