: It is designed to scale across multiple CPU cores, reducing the overhead seen in older APIs like OpenGL. Cross-Platform Portability
This is an older version of the runtime (released roughly in 2016-2017). If you see this in your "Installed Programs" list, it usually means you installed a video game or updated your graphics drivers around that time, and that specific program installed this specific version of the library. Vulkan Runtime Libraries 1.0.39.1