Cant progress from the launcher

[Global Muncher]

Hello everyone I have been trying to get forge to work for a while now with no luck, so sorry if im doing anything wrong here and sorry for posting blocks of text just when i got to play the game it takes to the game output tab of the launcher and give me all this using forge version

1.8-11.14.3.1543

 

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<init>(PropertiesUtil.java:71)

at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<clinit>(PropertiesUtil.java:31)

at org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger.<clinit>(StatusLogger.java:48)

at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:44)

at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.LogWrapper.configureLogging(LogWrapper.java:14)

at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.LogWrapper.log(LogWrapper.java:28)

at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:94)

at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ProviderUtil.<clinit>(ProviderUtil.java:70)

... 8 more

Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release

 

 

Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release

 

If anyone can help me get forge to work that would be great it worked on my old windows xp but nothing i have found online has helped me to get it working on windows 7

Thanks

[loordgek]

w/ launcher are you using

[Global Muncher]

I am using minecraft launcher 1.6.48 sorry forgot to add that