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I'm using a laptop with both nVidia and Intel graphics cards. The Intel card is actually fast enough to play Minecraft, and I'd rather not use the nVidia card because it causes the battery life to drop to effectively zero. However, it seems I can't send the game to full screen while using the slower graphics card; it crashes instantly if I do.
How can I get the game to go into fullscreen mode?
You probably can't. It probably has to do with indirect rendering . The nvidia card is probably the one writing to the screen, and supports a high resolution. But if you try fullscreen, the intel graphics try to write directly on the screen, which wont work since the nvidia card is doing that, or because it doesn't support such a high resolution. But try lowering resolution, see if that works.
Of course, this is guesswork, as I don't even know what model, drivers, settings, etc, you have.
Suggestion: Go to options -> video settings, select "power saver" mode, and use the nvidia card.
What graphics settings are you using? The first thing you should try is reducing your graphics to minimum (fast graphics, tiny render distance, Smooth Lighting off etc.) and seeing if that works. If it does, turn things on until it stops working/goes slow. If it still doesn't run with all graphics set to minimum, you're probably out of luck.
One other thing that's worth checking is Advanced OpenGL - try with it on and off, as it seems to cause problems some of the time when it's on.
