How To Roll Back NVIDIA Drivers (And Why You Might Want To)

You can usually roll back your NVIDIA drivers on Windows 10 and 11 with the Device Manager. There are two methods for finding the Device Manager menu: either open the Start Menu and search for Device Manager, or go to the Control Panel and select the Device Manager option from the list.

1. This will open a new window. Go to the “display adapters” option.
2. Locate your graphics card (which will start with NVIDIA), right-click, and choose “properties.”
3. Click on the “Driver” tab.
4. The “Roll Back Driver” option will be the third button from the top.

Once you click on the Roll Back Driver option, the drivers will be reverted to the previous version, and you should be good to go. However, sometimes the Roll Back Driver button is greyed out, so you can’t rollback drivers via this method. There is an alternative way of rolling back the NVIDIA drivers — it’s a few extra steps, but you’ll be able to get your GPU back to a properly working condition this way.

If you can’t rollback your drives with Device Manager, you’ll need to go to NVIDIA’s driver website and download the driver version you want. To start, you need to know what GPU your computer has. This information is in the Device Manager menu, so if you didn’t jot it down, you can repeat the steps in the section above and copy down the model name. From there:

1. Open the NVIDIA Drivers site
2. Select the product category, series, GPU model, and operating system.
3. Click the “Find” button.

NVIDIA will then give you the results, which will always start with the latest drivers. Since you want an older driver version, click the View More Versions dropdown, and you’ll see various older drivers. Choose the version you want, and you can download it on the next page. However, before you install these older drivers, you need to uninstall the latest set first.

1. Either go to the Settings application and go to the Apps menu, or to the Control Panel and choose “Programs and Features.”
2. Scroll down until you find the installed NVIDIA driver. It is normally named NVIDIA Graphics Driver and has a version number.
3. Click on the driver, then choose “Uninstall/Change.” This will open a window for the driver wizard.
4. Select “Uninstall,” and when complete, restart the computer.
5. Navigate to where you saved the older drivers, open the application, and install them.

If the drivers you chose didn’t seem to fix the issue, you can keep trying to rollback until you find a version that works correctly with your computer. You can also check to make sure all Windows drivers are up to date and aren’t causing the issue.