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You need to create a new installation that uses the forge version you want with the little New button at the top there.

If you right-click at the bottom of the screen on the taskbar, after all the icons, a menu should pop up. In that menu, there should be an option "Toolbars" with a little arrow after it. If you point at that, a list of the active toolbars should show up. Look for something named "search bar" or something, and if it has a checkmark next to it, click on it to de-select it. If you accidentally remove something you didn't mean to, repeat the steps, and just click the item again to put the checkmark back. This (might?) remove the search bar thing from the top of your screen, but it will still be installed on the computer. To remove it, you will have to go into the control panel, then Apps/Programs, and search for that program in the list to remove it. Be careful doing that, if you remove a program you don't mean to, I cannot promise that we could help get it back. I normally wouldn't offer up tech support for something like this on this site, however the people that make ads (not the forge team, but the actual ad makers) are jerks, and trick people into installing stuff. Unfortunately, considering this is all free software, stuff needs to get paid for somehow, and slimeball ad makers like to pay people to push their ads, so it's pretty much a catch-22. Good luck, hope you get it fixed!!

My wife was having really bad lag issues on her laptop, turning off Mipmaps in the video options made a world of difference.

Post your logs on a github gist or pastebin or something, then put a link to it here.

Google "install forge server from commandline", it should show you how to do it

quark, not quake. Try removing or updating the quark mod and see if that helps. Also make sure you are downloading your mods from Curseforge or from the developers website, and not from a shady website like 9 minecraft or something.

Where are you downloading your mods from? Make sure you are only downloading from Curseforge, or directly from the mod authors website/release. Other websites like 9 minecraft and such will host mods without permission that can often be out of date, or possibly even repacked with malware/viruses. https://stopmodreposts.org/ This seemed likely to me, since the ic2 filename of your mod does not match the filename I see on Curseforge, as well as it not being the latest version. If you did download from other sites, I would delete all of the mods, and redownload from Curseforge, making sure to get the latest releases for the minecraft version you are modding.

Your problem is unclear, we need more information. Can you post a screenshot or more details please?

Maybe. Where are you downloading mods from? As far as I can tell from curse, the latest damage indicators mod file should be named "[1.12.2]DamageIndicatorsMod-3.4.7.jar", and yours is not. Make sure you are only downloading mods from curseforge, or from the mod developers website, and not shifty websites like 9 minecraft and the such. https://stopmodreposts.org/ has more information on which sites are bad. If you downloaded mods from any of those sites, I would delete them and redownload from curseforge.

If you remove the damage indicators mod, does it still crash? If it does, post the new log. *Edit: Also, when you paste something that long into the forums, you should put it between spoiler tags (the eyeball button at the top of where you type your post). Just makes the thread easier to traverse

1.8.9 is no longer supported, due to it being old. I believe 1.12+ are required for support here. That being said, based on the error, I'd say one of your config files is corrupted/broken/invalid.

Being insulting is not a very productive way to get help. There is not enough information in your post to provide help. I just now downloaded and installed forge for 1.14.2, and it shows up in my versions list when I create a new profile in the launcher, so the forge installer is certainly working, so this is a problem that is unique to your situation, and is not affecting everyone. Are you using the official launcher? Are you using the beta launcher? You provided such little information, hence people asking for more.

Looking through the crashlog, the only mod mentioned in any of the errors/waiting threads is hammercore. Not sure if that's the issue, but if it were my problem, I would start by removing that, and seeing if it still crashes.

That depends if the mods are for forge or not, if they are, then yes you need forge. The mod overview/description should say if it's a forge mod or not.

You should not bump a thread after only an hour, that's not polite forums etiquette. Anyhow, if you read your log, it tells you what the problem is.

Optifine for 1.14.2 is not compatible with forge at this time. Check the Optifine Changelog for information on forge compatibility. As far as your capes mod, hard to tell without logfiles. If you google "macos minecraft logs folder" you could probably find instructions on how to find the logs folder to post for us. I do not use a mac, so cannot help you with that part.

How did you fix it? Just curious, and it might also help someone else searching through the forums in the future.

Well, that blur mod won't work with forge, it's for fabric. So is the brightness mod. The changelog for the version of optifine you are using (changelogs are linked on the downloads page) says it is not compatible with forge.

What mods are you using? And where did you get them? Unfortunately the crashlog does not show any of that information.

Optifine is pretty specific about the versions of forge it is compatible with, checking optifine's changelog will usually tell what forge build it works with.

If it were me, I'd try removing the movingworld mod, and see if that stops the crashing. Also make sure you are downloading your mods from curseforge, or directly from the developers, and not from shady websites like 9 minecraft and such.

Just as a side note, after java, it should be -jar, not just - before the jarfile name. That's why it said: So it should have looked like this:

Don't download from 9minecraft, they distribute mods without permission, and there is the potential for there to be malware added to the mod jars, as well as potentially out of date mods. I would delete any mods downloaded from 9minecraft and redownload them from curseforge. https://stopmodreposts.org/

Make sure the mods you are downloading are actually for forge, and not fabric (or another modloader). From my limited browsing/searching of curseforge, not a whole lot of forge mods are updated for 1.14.2 yet, and seems as if there are more for fabric (currently).

https://minecraft.curseforge.com/mc-mods Keep in mind that most of the forge mods are currently 1.12.2, as there is no RB for higher versions yet, and I imagine mod authors are waiting for things to settle down before investing in the new versions. Be careful where you download mods from as well, I would only download from curseforge or a developers actual website/github.