I'M MAD! Majority of games/apps require 2 GHz Intel Core Duo...D:<

Buy a newer machine.

I don't understand. 10.6.8 can play most games. But as you cannot update your 1,83 Ghz. That's your problem. So if you require more, as Quick time Kirk says, you must buy a newer machine.

Sadly, being broke (and haven't we all had such moments) is not the answer. Go and get a better paid job. 😀

There are games, and then there ARE games.

Many game developers of graphics intensive games write the games for high end hardware. If you want to run THOSE games, you have to dance to the tune of those game developers.

And when you do catch up to those game developers, they will move to even newer more powerful platforms a few months, or if you are lucky a few years after you get capable hardware, making what you have obsolete. This is how the game industry works

Just to note, if this were Windows, you'd be in exactly the same boat. The latest games almost always require the latest, or at least close to the latest hardware to play them with all graphics effects enabled, high frame rate, etc. As any gamer could tell you, that means moving up to a new computer every two or three years.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) is rather old at the moment. Mavericks 10.9 is the current release.

There is a reasonable chance that the game developers have moved to a newer release of the OS as a dependency.

Or the things you have been trying to do, have upset the environment you had working before.

In any event, you have old hardware running an old operating system. If the game developer tests for a minimum hardware requirement, you need to satisfy that game developer to play their game. Getting Mad in these forums will not get around that limit.

From the specs you gave, there's a small variety of Macs that fit the CPU and RAM numbers you gave. All were built in 2006, and all have a maximum OS ability of Snow Leopard, 10.6.8. I think it's pretty safe to say a seven year old computer is not going to play the latest games well, or at all.

That it reports the app doesn't work with the current version means it's looking for Lion, 10.7.x at least as the bare minimum. You can't upgrade your Mac to that, so a newer (much newer) Mac is necessary.

Nana-san wrote:

I am a gamer, and as one I very much know this. However, it is absurd that I can't play something as simple as elsword or any of those 2011/2012 MMO/RPGs...also, I can't even use the application sketchup to design 3D projects, and that is a problem as a game designer. I can't even download most apps in the App Store that are specifically in the 10.6.8 category .-.

Get a PC. They are the best gaming machines on the planet. Macs are not gaming comps.