When I play Minecraft on my Macbook Pro the whole computer freezes
After a bit of Minecraft on my Macbook Pro (the amount of time before the freeze is always different. I can go hours without it freezing up but sometimes it freezes after ten minutes), the screen will get distorted and my computer becomes completely unresponsive. The only thing I can o is force it to shut off and turn it back on.
This happened before, and then my hard drive was found to be bad, so I got a new one... now it is happening again, and I would love it if I didn't have to replace the hard drive again...
One of my Engineering friends thinks it might be my graphics card or the computer itself, another said he'd never, ever seen something like the problem I am having. I'd like to know if there's something I can do to fix this problem.
My computer has a 2.8GHz Intel i7 duo-core processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512MB graphics card, if that is of any use to anyone who can help me.
On a side, slightly less annoying note, when I plug in my headphones, the volume stays constant no matter how many times I adjust the volume using the buttons on the keyboard or the icon on the top of the screen. I have to go into the system preferences to change the volume. Sometimes, when I unplug the headphones, the problem persists with the computer speakers. Any ideas why this is happening or what I can do to fix it?
No one has any helpful tips?
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