I am getting a black screen while trying to play a game. Help me.

So, I am trying to play a game on my Macbook, from Late 2007, model A1181, OSX 10.6.7
Snow Leopard
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Using an Intel GMA X3100
Now, this problem, I was actually running Leopard and trying to play Warcraft III: Frozen Throne and I was able to play it no problem at all. I reformatted my macbook recently and put in Snow Leopard and I actually played perfectly fine two days ago. I tried to play today, 2 of the times I tried, the screen turns black, but everything is still running, like I was skyping with a friend just to use the voice chat and then it just turned black and I was still able to talk to him. 1 of the times I tried, the computer just restarted itself and I tried looking it up online, but everyone's questions were for Windows on Mac or Macbook Pro and now I'm all out of ideas.

Uh...I actually don't think so because I don't know how to do it. Haha. Can you tell me how to do it? But yeah, I used to play it all the time, and actually I was trying to watch Netflix, and then I full-screened it, and I also got the black screen, so I don't think it's just games anymore. Do you think it could be the fan?? overheating? and as for settings in the game goes, I put it all down, no shadows, uhh I think all medium settings, but yeah nothing is on high for sure.

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