X-Plane 11.55 is an incremental bug-fix patch update which also features updated Gateway airports.

Known bugs

  • 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.

New and updated global airports

Bug Fixes

Release Candidate 1

  • XPD-9801 Fix for an SDK instancing crash.

Release Candidate 2

  • XPD-11278 3D flags for airports missing.

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