SOLVED: Blender crashes on macOS Ventura (OCLP) with AMD R9 M370X? Use Blender 3.3 LTS!

After weeks of struggle, I finally found a solution that might help other 2015 MacBook Pro owners with AMD R9 M370X graphics running macOS Ventura using OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

Problem

Hardware: MacBook Pro 15" 2015 (11.5") with Intel Iris Pro and AMD Radeon R9 M370X

OS: macOS Ventura 13.7.8 via OCLP

Problem: Blender instantly crashes on launch with Metal API errors

Solution that worked

Blender 3.3.10 LTS is the last stable version before major changes to the Metal API.

Download: https://download.blender.org/release/Blender3.3/blender-3.3.10-macos-x64.dmg

The viewport is stable, there were no random crashes during modeling/sculpting, and all the features I needed are available.

Hope this saves someone the headache I experienced! I'm glad I can stay on a more current version than Monterey.