How to Fix Missing H265 Hardware Acceleration in Big Sur

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How to Fix Missing H265 Hardware Acceleration in Big Sur

This mini-guide provides a structural approach to troubleshoot and fix the issue.

Prerequisites

  • Confirm your hardware specifications (CPU, GPU, Motherboard).
  • Ensure you have a bootable recovery USB and backup your EFI.

Fix Steps

  1. Check if your GPU requires WhateverGreen or specific boot-args (e.g., agdpmod=pikera).
  2. Ensure Metal acceleration is fully supported for your macOS version.
  3. Update Lilu and WhateverGreen to the latest versions.

Verification

  • Reboot and verify if the functionality is restored and stable under typical usage.

Original Question:

Hi all,

I'm trying to fix an issue with H265 Hardware Acceleration in Big Sur with one of my builds:
- ASUS Prime H310I-PLUS R2.0
- Intel Core i3 8100
- iGPU Intel UHD 630
- SSD NVME 1TB
- 16GB DDR4

The exact same configuration boot in Catalina with a perfectly working H265 Hardware Acceleration, while in Big Sur such doesn't work.
H264 Hardware Acceleration works fine both in Catalina and Big Sur.

Can anyone help unlock it?
I add to this thread my DSDT dump, OpenCore Configuration, IOReg...

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Author: zzmadd

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