Vulkan Runtime Libraries

Vulkan Runtime Libraries also abbreviated as VulkanRT is installed by display card manufacturers such as NVIDIA , Intel or AMD.It became a hot topic because all windows 10 user started getting updates of VulkanRT which was incorporated by Lunarg Inc.Microsoft as is considered to be the most secured about the threats it’s users thought this could be virus or malware or threat and fear that this might harm their computer. In this article we will clarify all your doubts and queries about Voulkan RT.

HISTORY OF VULKAN

Vulkan was originally announced by the Khronos Group in March 2015, with a tentative launch date set for late 2015. In case you are not familiar with Khronos, it’s a non-profit industry consortium founded fifteen years ago by some of the biggest names in the graphics industry, including ATI (now a part of AMD), Nvidia, Intel, Silicon Graphics, Discrete, and Sun Microsystems. Even if you haven’t heard of Khronos, you’ve probably heard of some of their standards, such as: OpenGL, OpenGL ES, WebGL, OpenCL, SPIR, SYCL, WebCL, OpenVX, EGL, OpenMAX, OpenVG, OpenSL ES, StreamInput, COLLADA, and glTF.

Vulcan Software is an independent computer gaming company founded in 1994 in the United States of America. Vulcan started creating software for the Amiga computer systems. Its first commercial game was Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity, which was notable for being the first ever Amiga speech adventure game. The Vulkan API was initially referred to as the "next generation OpenGL initiative," or "OpenGraphics Library [OpenGL] next" by Khronos, but use of those names was discontinued once the Vulkan name was announced.

The Khronos Group was founded in 2000 to provide a structure for key industry players to cooperate in the creation of open standards that deliver on the promise of cross-platform technology. Today, Khronos is a not for profit, member-funded consortium dedicated to the creation of royalty-free open standards for graphics, parallel computing, vision processing, and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms from the desktop to embedded and safety critical devices. Khronos APIs are key technologies in their respective markets, such as Vulkan and OpenGL in graphics and gaming, WebGL in 3D web graphics, and OpenVX and OpenCL in embedded vision and compute.
The Khronos Board and all of its Working Groups are made up of Khronos members: universities and companies large and small from across the ecosystem. These members work together to define, document, maintain, and promote innovative APIs, file formats, and other open standards used throughout a cross section of industries.

What is Vulkan Lunarg Inc?

Vulkan oftware Development kit provides comprehensive tools for both Linux and Windows operating systems. Vulkan is a cross-platform API that supports a range of devices including desktop, mobile, and console. The Vulkan loader and validation layers are canonical pieces that are critical in achieving this cross-platform compatibility. Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API.

How we come to know about whether we have vulkan in our widows or not?

Go to your control panel and then to programs and files if you have Vulkan it will be shown there like this.

HOW TO UN - INSTALL VULKAN RT

In case you want to uninstall Vulkan RT you can check on Vulcan Run Time 1.0.3.1 or 1.0.5.1 icon and then click on uninstall then click on proceed and finally to finish to uninstall Vulkan. It is strongly recommended that you should not uninstall it as if you un install you might face graphical display issues on your computer.

Open Graphic Library Vs Vulkan Runtime Library

 

OpenGL	Vulkan[
One single global state machine	Object-based with no global state
State is tied to a single context	All state concepts are localized to a command buffer
Operations can only be executed sequentially	Multi-threaded programming is possible
GPU memory and synchronization are usually hidden	Explicit control over memory management and synchronization
Extensive error checking	Vulkan drivers do no error checking at runtime; there is a validation layer for developers

List of Video Games with Vulkan support

• The Talos Principle – The first game with Vulkan rendering support.
• Dota 2 – Vulkan support was released in May 2016.^[40]
• Doom – Vulkan support was released in July 2016.^[41]
• vkQuake – A Vulkan Quake port was released in July 2016.^[42][43]
• Roblox – In March 2017, Vulkan support for Roblox was added.
• Star Citizen – In March 2017, the Director of Graphics Programming for Cloud Imperium Games, Alistair Brown, announced on the official Star Citizen forums that Cloud Imperium will now only focus on implementing Vulkan into Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Support for DirectX 12 will be dropped as it would require customers to use Windows 10.^[37]
• Mad Max – In March 2017, the developers added beta support for Vulkan exclusively for the Linux port.^[44]
• Ballistic Overkill – Vulkan support was released in May 2017.
• Quake III Arena Kenny Edition – A Quake 3 engine modification added Vulkan support in May 2017.
• Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation – Vulkan support will be added in an upcoming release.
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – The game will be ported to Source 2 and support Vulkan.
• vkDoom3 - a Vulkan port of Doom3 BFG support was released in August 2017.

Now the question arises which platform cannot be supported by Vulkan

FOR AMD COMPANY GRAPHIC ADAPTER

ANDRIOD-NOT APPLICABLE

LINUX-Experimental for GCN 1^st and GCN 2^nd and available for 3^rd ,4^th and 5^th GCN

MICROSOFT WINDOWS-Terascale 1,2,3 not supported ,GCN 1,2,3,4,5 all supported by Vulkan

FOR Nvidia COMPANY GRAPHIC ADAPTER

ANDRIOD-No support for Tesla and Fermi micro architechture, Pascal, Maxwell and Keplar micro architecture supported by Vulkan

LINUX-No support for Tesla and Fermi micro architecture Maxwell and Keplar micro architecture supported by Vulkan

MICROSOFT WINDOWS-No support for Tesla and Fermi micro architecture Maxwell and Keplar micro architecture supported by Vulkan

Except Power VR series of Imagination Technologies all others supported in Linux , android and  Microsoft windows platform.

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES OR RELATED LINKS

YOUTUBE VIDEO FOR VULKAN VS DIRECTX--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBe1AVFmKEo

WIKIPEDIA LINK FOR VULKAN AND ITS API- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

TO CHECK OUT LATEST NEWS ABOUT VULKAN visit- https://www.khronos.org/news/

To check out their facebook page visit- https://www.facebook.com/TheKhronosGroup

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