X-Plane developer, Laminar Research has taken to the X-Plane website to release a small “ incremental bug-fix patch update” to the simulator.

According to Laminar, the 11.53 update mainly focuses on a fix for unusable HP Reverb G2 VR controllers.

A changelog was provided, which is viewable below.

• Added caching of segfaults in the AMD driver from texture imports.
• Added HP Reverb G2 configs from Bill.
• Added command-line option for controller angle.
  --controller_angle=[number of degrees]
• XPD-11084 Pick off G2 controller and give it a special ID so we can get a special config.
• XPD-11159 Lua allocator can return junk memory.

There are various known bugs being shipped with the update as well, a list of these is viewable below.

• First load time with Metal and Vulkan will be surprisingly slow. This is lots of shaders/pipelines compiling for the first time; subsequent runs will be faster.
• XPD-7871 Dark contrails instead of white.
• XPD-8162 Ocean tiles loading slowly & appear to be missing entirely in scenery.
• XPD-8448 Rain drops follow headset in VR.
• XPD-9234 Flickering cloud shadows on the ground.
• XPD-9388 Software hangs upon exit when using VR.
• XPD-9729 Contrails and wing condensation missing in replay.
• XPD-10506 First run shader creation is super slow.
• XPD-10616 Water reflection off if wave height is non zero.
• XPD-10653 ‘Heat’ turbulence in front of engine.
• XPD-10690 Blue geometric shapes that appear when scenery is missing.
• XPD-10709, XPD-10868 Plugin OpenGL drawing artifacts under Windows with Vulkan on AMD GPUs.
• XPD-10830 Device loss crash when using Vulkan.
• XPD-11010 CTD in VR when Windows Mixed Reality button is pressed on either controller.
• XPD-11121 Grid pattern in the ocean.

Laminar Research X-Plane 11 is available for purchase directly from their store or Steam for $59.99. As well, a demo is available from the same website.

You can view the source post for this article from X-Plane’s website.