Games freeze computer

I have a mini that a previous owner upgraded to an Intel core 2. I have snow leopard on it. Since none of the games pre Intel will work on this computer I've been trying to DL some new games. Games really relax me and allow me to think. Just about every game I've tried will freeze the puter, sometimes right away, sometimes after a bit. All I can do is shut down and restart because all I get is a black screen or a white screen, or sometimes a black that then turns white.
Thanks in advamce for any help.

Hi:
What that means is there is some process running in the background.
Check your resource monitor to see what is happening when you are seeing this.
You can also hit the cntrl + alt + del keys to launch the task manager and look at the processes tab to see what is going on.
Some process is eating up a lot of your memory causing that lag.
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Solution available? Yes
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Cause A video adapter device driver
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Revision : 1.0
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