Vulkan is a (Application Programming Interface). Developed by the Khronos Group (the same consortium behind OpenGL), Vulkan allows software developers—especially game developers—to communicate directly with a computer’s GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) with very little CPU overhead. Unlike older APIs like OpenGL or DirectX 11, Vulkan gives developers fine-grained control over memory, threading, and command buffers, which can lead to significantly better performance on multi-core processors.

Yes. Go to (or Settings → Apps in Windows 10/11). Look for "Vulkan Run Time Libraries" or a similarly named entry. Uninstalling removes the runtime DLLs.

directory. This is normal behavior for a graphics driver component. Hybrid Analysis Community "Review" & Performance Users on platforms like generally report the following:

or Steam will automatically run this installer during the first-time setup of a game Manual Fix for Crashes

Are you trying to fix a , or did you just find this file and want to know if it's safe to delete?

your Vulkan drivers to the latest version, or are you trying to fix a specific error VulkanRT-1.1.108.0-Installer.exe - Hybrid Analysis