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Big Sur GPU freeze issues

Big Sur GPU Bug

Howdy! You‘re here because, ever since you upgraded your 2018 MacBook Pro to Big Sur, you’ve been experiencing consistent beachballing and hard freezing issues. You probably figured this out after finding lots of messages like this in the Console during a lock-up:

AMDRadeonX5000GLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeonX5000SCLib.dylib: #2: No such file or directory
May 25 19:54:19 ogma Adobe CEF Helper (GPU)[3327]: getattrlist failed for /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Resources//GLRendererFloat.bundle/GLRendererFloat: #2: No such file or directory
May 25 19:54:19 ogma VTDecoderXPCService[3328]: getattrlist failed for /Library/GPUBundles/AMDRadeonVADriver2.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AMDRadeonVADriver2: #2: No such file or directory
May 25 19:54:19 ogma VTDecoderXPCService[3328]: getattrlist failed for /System/Library/Extensions/AMDRadeonVADriver2.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AMDRadeonVADriver2: #2: No such file or directory
May 25 19:54:19 ogma VTDecoderXPCService[3328]: getattrlist fai