How to Rollback NVIDIA Drivers in Windows
Display drivers are one of the most important parts of system software. Overall stability can depend heavily on having a good, stable and reliable GPU driver. Sometimes driver packages can act up, cause issues with specific applications or games and generally don't play nice with your hardware, whether because the driver package is a beta release or for a number of other reasons.
If you find your current NVIDIA driver installation is causing issues or crashes and general system instability, you might want to roll back your drivers to their previous, stable version you were pleased with. This article will show you how to do this in two different ways.
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Use the device manager to roll back NVIDIA drivers
Right click your start menu button and select "Device Manager". In the device manager window, find your GPU under the "Display adapters" category. Right click your GPU and select "Properties".
In the new window that comes up, click the "Driver" tab in the top menu. Find and click the "Roll Back Driver" button. At this point Windows will ask you to provide a reason for reverting to your previous driver. Select a specific reason and then click "Yes". Windows will quietly roll back your driver version to your previous install.
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Reinstalling previous driver version
You can also do a manual clean install of your previous driver version. Simply visit NVIDIA's driver download page, find the appropriate package for your GPU and download the driver installer package, making sure you have the version number you were last using.
Once you run the installer package, choose "Custom (Advanced)" in the install options. This will allow you to perform a clean install in the next step. A clean install is useful because it securely and completely wipes your currently installed driver, then installs the drivers contained in the package you are running.
This will allow you to remove the unstable driver and will perform a fresh, clean install after a system reboot that is usually needed to fully uninstall the old driver.
Using either of these options, you will be able to revert your system's NVIDIA GPU driver to its previous stable version that worked well for your hardware and software configuration.