Pukeolicious

Thank you, I'm good to go now. This can be a beautiful game with the right shaders and textures.

Okay, please forgive my ignorance, I don't understand how profiles work. I'm not concerned about keeping existing/older versions of anything. I only want the most current version so that I can continue playing on Realms with my grandson, yet have a prettier looking game for my 34" monitor. The only mod I have is Optifine and I swapped its .jar file out for the current version in the mods folder. How do I update Forge? If there is a guide somewhere that I am missing please point me at it.

I played with modding Minecraft awhile back. Now I'm making another go at it again and downloaded Forge 1.12.2-14.23.1.2555 and installed with the Windows installer (also tried the java installer). The install appears to be successful. However, when I launch Minecraft, the launcher shows version 1.12-forge1.12-14.21.0.2373. Before I noticed the version error I launched forge and it crashed during the first run. Now it crashes with the generic "Game Crash An unexpected issue occurred..." every time. Do I need to uninstall/delete the previous version and how do I do that?