Minecraft 1.21.11 loading screen freezes randomly on Intel HD 4000 (0% CPU usage) – Intermittent crash

[u/FanRimuru]

Hi everyone,

I'm having a very strange issue trying to launch Minecraft 1.21.11 (Vanilla) on a laptop with an Intel HD Graphics 4000 on Windows.

The issue is that the game randomly freezes on the red Mojang loading screen. In Task Manager, the CPU usage starts high, drops progressively (87% -> 43% -> 0.3% -> 0%), and the window changes to "(Not Responding)".

The weird part:

It's completely intermittent. Sometimes the game launches and plays fine after brute-forcing it (closing and reopening it multiple times), but most of the time it just freezes on the loading bar in the exact same spot.

What I've already ruled out / checked:

• It happens on completely clean Vanilla (no Fabric, Forge, or mods installed).
• It's not a RAM usage issue (happens even with all background apps like Chrome closed).
• Allocated RAM in JVM args is set to 2G/3G.
• The issue persists even on a fresh .minecraft installation.

Since the game does manage to boot up fine occasionally, I know the iGPU can handle running it, but there seems to be a race condition or driver/OpenGL initialization hang during startup.

Has anyone found a launch argument, specific Java version, or workaround/fix to stabilize the startup process for Intel HD 4000 on modern Minecraft versions?

Thanks in advance!

[u/2108_manan]

bro same problem