Hello,

I recently tried to download forge 1.7.2, however, I cannot download it as it requires Java version 1.6, but my java has updated to 1.7. There is no way of downloading older versions of Java, so is there anything I can do, or do I need to wait until forge is compatible with Java 1.7?

 

Thanks for any help! 

When I try to run the forge installer I get this message:

 

"This application requires a Jave Runtime Environment 1.6.0"

 

Not sure why it's not working if it can work fine with Java 7.

 

Any ideas of what I could try?

Java is definitely installed, and to version 7. Proof:

 

 

This is the error message I get when I try to run the installer:

 

Unfortunately the .jar installer isn't working either! This one says it can't find a correct program to run it with, and then in the 'open with' section there is no option for java, therefore I can't run the program.

turns out that java was not in my path environment variable so I created a bat file to run it as follows

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\java" -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar forge-1.7.2-10.12.1.1060-installer.jar

 

I will try adding it to the environment variable to see it that works as well

You've installed java wrong and l4j can't find it. It's as simple as that. you need to either manually specify the path or fix the environment variables to point at java correctly.