Vulkan Runtime Libraries 1.0.39.1 !!top!! <NEWEST × Checklist>

For most users, version 1.0.39.1 is a digital ghost: a leftover from an earlier driver or an install of Doom (2016) that has since been superseded. It does not harm your PC, spy on your activities, or slow down your boot time. It simply waits, ready to translate Vulkan commands into GPU instructions, should any application call upon it.

However, for production work, you should use the Vulkan SDK that matches your target version. Modern Vulkan development uses the to switch between runtimes, and CI pipelines test across multiple versions. Vulkan Runtime Libraries 1.0.39.1

If you value a clean program list, by all means, uninstall it after confirming you have a newer runtime. But if you ignore it entirely, your PC will continue to run just as well as it always has. For most users, version 1