The Vulkan Run Time Libraries provide the necessary runtime components for applications and games to utilize the Vulkan graphics API – a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API. Version 1.0.39.1 is an early maintenance release of the Vulkan 1.0 specification.
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Version 1.0.39.1 was released back in early 2017. This was a pivotal moment for Vulkan. At the time: vulkan run time libraries 1.0.39.1
This specific build (1.0.39.1) was often bundled with: The Vulkan Run Time Libraries provide the necessary
The short answer: No.
The long answer: If you uninstall this library, any game or application that relies on Vulkan will fail to launch or crash immediately. It takes up a negligible amount of space (usually less than 5MB), so there is no benefit to removing it to save disk space. This specific build ( 1
Exception: If you have upgraded to a much newer version of Vulkan but the old version 1.0.39.1 is stubbornly still listed in your installed programs list (and you are experiencing graphics glitches), you could uninstall it and then repair your current graphics driver installation to force a clean, newer version of Vulkan to take over. However, for most users, simply ignoring it is the best course of action.