Having issues with OS X 10.6.8 after updating third party addons
I am currently running OS X 10.6.8 on an iMac and run games like Bioshock, Minecraft and X-Plane 10 and have had no problems or crashes for years.
Recently I broke the golden rule and updated Windows media player, Flash and Google Earth in short succession and now I find that after playing more recent games offline they crash to a black screen with the sound frozen at the moment of freeze. The only way to get out of this condition is to force re-boot the mac.
Older games like Tomb Raider 2 will run all day without crashing and so will surfing the internet or watching YouTube videos run for hours without any crashing. It is only modern games that crash. All of these games ran with 100% reliability before.
I have since removed Adobe Flash and Windows Media Player etc without results.
iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)