Are you feel panic when you find Vulkan runtime libraries on your Windows 10 system? To release your anxiety, you need to have a deep understanding of it. So, what are Vulcan runtime libraries?

Vulkan Runtime Libraries (known as Vulkan Run time Libraries or VulkanRT) are collecting software programs that aim to provide features and services. In a word, Vulkan runtime libraries offer additional resources to an immediate plan.

VulkanRunTime Libraries are Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) utilized for system graphics. It is a new graphic standard and related to OpenGL and DirectX, which is applied to games providing better performance.

It was installed by display card manufacturers (NVIDIA, Intel, or AMD) when you updated the video driver the last time. Vulkan Runtime Libraries is neither malware nor virus. Instead, it’s a 3D graphics and computes API released by Khronos Group.

What Are Vulkan Runtime Libraries? 

Vulkan Run Time Libraries are Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) used for system graphics. An API is an assemblage of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for establishing application software. In general terms, it is a set of apparently defined plans of communication between various software components.

Vulkan Run Time Libraries is a new graphic standard, a 3D graphics application programming interface rather like OpenGL and DirectX, used for gaming and better 3D performance. So if DirectX12 is the latest graphic standard for gaming, then Vulkan is the newest version of OpenGL. Vulkan is dedicated to offering higher performance and more balanced CPU/GPU usage. In addition to lower CPU usage, Vulkan is also quite able to distribute work amongst multiple CPU cores.

As mentioned before, it is expected that there are Vulkan Run Time Libraries installed on Windows, especially if you are using Nvidia drivers or other software that requires Vulkan Run Time Libraries to be installed. It usually self-installs automatically and without asking permission. If you are playing computer games quite often or using other programs that require graphics, we recommend that you leave Vulkan Run Time Libraries installed on the system. If you are not playing games or using any software that requires graphics, you may not notice Vulkan Run Time Libraries’ absence. Bear in mind that if you decide to remove it from your system, it can be challenging to reinstall since it installs with graphic drivers – these would need reinstallation first.

Since Vulkan is a reasonably new API, there are not many games that support it. The most common games with support for the Vulcan giving API are Quake, Dota 2, GRID Autosport, Doom, Mad Max, Warhammer 40,00: Dawn of War III, F1 2017, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Serious Sam Fusion 2017, and Growth of the Tomb Raider. It also supports more modern games, so if you wish to play these, leave Vulkan Run Time Libraries installed.

How To Uninstall & Reinstall Vulkan Run Time Libraries?

• If you are sure that you want to remove/delete Vulkan Run Time Libraries from the computer, start by typing “run” in Search and selecting the “Run” result.
• In the Run box, type “appwiz.cpl” and click “OK” or press Enter on the keyboard.
• Scroll through the list to get the particular Vulkan Run Time Libraries version installed on Windows, right-click it, and choose Uninstall/Change in the drop-down menu to remove it.
• If for some reason, you decide to uninstall it and then wish to reinstall it, you need to uninstall the graphics drivers. To do so, type “device manager” and click the “Device Manager” result.
• Find the graphics hardware device, expand it, right-click the graphics driver, and select “Uninstall device.”
• Check the “Delete the driver software for this device” checkbox before uninstalling the device and then click “Uninstall.”
• Now, restart your system, and Windows will automatically reinstall the missing drivers. If for some reason it does not, return to Device Manager, right-click the video driver under the video hardware device, and select “Update Driver.”
• You will be asked how you wish to search for drivers: automatically for the updated driver software or to browse the driver software system. Select your preferred option and follow the instructions.

Another way to update or install new video hardware drivers is to use third-party software such as Snappy Driver Installer. You will want a system with a working Internet connection to download it.

Snappy Driver Installer (SDI) is a powerful free driver updater tool for Windows that can store its whole offline collection. Having offline drivers provides Snappy Driver Installer the ability to access fast driver updates, even if there is no active Internet connection. Snappy Driver works with 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

Drivers are downloaded through Snappy Driver Installer in what is listed driver packs, just collections (packs) of drivers for different hardware such as sound devices, video cards, network adapters, etc. It can also show duplicate drivers and invalid drivers and divides updates that require you to restart the computer, so they are easier to distinguish from the rest.

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