RPCS3 Starting problem and observations.

What do you mean by "Vulkan release"?
There's only one release with all the renders in, did you download the latest from appveyor?
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rpcs3/rp.../artifacts

Sorry I mean Vulkan branch.
Yes latest releases, downloaded thru emucr.com/.

cheers

There isn't any vulkan-wip branch (see here), that was created to implement vulkan a while back and then it was deleted once it was implemented on master.
Only valid and updated branch (currently) is master at https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/tree/master and the download for the latest commit build can be found at appveyor.
Don't use that third party website, always download stuff through their official downloads.