Hi, last time (and first i tried to install OSX) I had a R9 380X and while it worked, I couldn't for the life of me enable hardware acceleration. Also, the GPU was showing its age and had some problems with heat (changing thermal paste helped somewhat) but I still wanted to upgrade. Problem was, it was the final month of 2020 so there was an extreme shortage but luckily, I found a deal (a shop that had a second hand 5700XT that had been sent back unused (they gave me full warranty)) so I snatched it.
After changing GPUs, my MacOS didn't boot so I forgot about it for a while. A few days ago I felt like trying again and installing the new Big Sur, so I set OpenCore up again and booted the USB stick to make a clean install, but it didn't seem to work (maybe i didn't give it enough time), rebooting, I saw the entry for my old MacOS install (now loading with the new OpenCore USB EFI) and it loaded fine and with hardware acceleration.
But it still was Success' href='/2020/12/install-macos-catalina-on-supported-pc.html'>Catalina and an update to Big Sur was said to be possible within MacOS. After a bit of hiccups it updated fine and now I have Big Sur on Ryzen 3600X with a 5700XT and hardware acceleration.
Btw, it's ironic that a virtual machine gets the CPU name correctly while the host has been fooled.
The only thing that bothers me a bit (but that seems to be a problem with Big Sur itself) is that X360 controllers don't work.
Regards.
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