How To Roll Back NVIDIA Graphics Card (GPU) Drivers

How To Roll Back NVIDIA Drivers

In this video, I will be showing you how to roll back your NVIDIA graphics card driver to the previous driver version. Rolling back your NVIDIA driver, is a quick way to go back to an older previously installed driver version. You might decide to roll back your NVIDIA driver if you begin experiencing problems with your NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) after updating your driver to a newer or latest release. A roll back, could potentially solve GPU issues, if they only began to be noticed after a driver update. During this video guide, I demonstrate three methods on how you can roll back your NVIDIA GPU driver. The first two methods can be done on a Windows operating systems (OS) and the third method can be done on any OS that NVIDIA supports. It is important to keep in mind, that to perform an NVIDIA driver roll back, you must still have older NVIDIA driver installations remaining on your computer. If you performed a clean install during a NVIDIA driver update, you may have erased the older GPU drivers from your PC. In this case, you will need to downgrade your NVIDIA driver using method 3.

Steps To Roll Back NVIDIA Graphics Card Drivers:

Method 1: Roll Back NVIDIA Driver Using Windows Device Manager
1. Right click on your Windows Start icon on your taskbar
2. Click Device Manager
3. Find Display adaptors and click the drop down arrow next to it
4. Find your NVIDIA GPU and right click on it
5. Click Properties
6. Click the Driver tab
7. Click Roll Back Driver
8. Select a reason for the driver roll back
9. Click Yes
10. Once your Device Manager has refreshed and the "Roll Back Driver" button is greyed out, your driver roll back was successful and is now complete. You can now close out of your NVIDIA device adaptors driver properties by clicking on Close.

Method 2: Install Previous NVIDIA Driver Version Using Windows Device Manager
1. Repeat steps 1-6 from method 1 above
2. Click Update Driver
3. Click "Browse my computer for drivers"
4. Click "Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer"
5. Select the NVIDIA driver version you want to roll back to
6. Click "Next" to start the roll back and begin installing the previous NVIDIA driver version
7. Click Close
8. Click "Close" again to exit out of the Device Manager and finish the NVIDIA driver roll back.

Note: Only use method 3, if don't still have the previous NVIDIA driver installed on your device or if you're using an OS other than Windows.

Congratulations, you have successfully rolled back your NVIDIA GPU Driver.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro & Context
0:41 - Roll Back NVIDIA Driver Using Windows Device Manager
3:52 - Install Previous NVIDIA Driver Version Using Windows Device Manager
7:16 - How To Downgrade NVIDIA Drivers
7:46 - Closing & Outro

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[Oceanix]

I always regret updating my drivers, it's crazy. It probably makes things better for newer games but it ALWAYS messes up something in a game I'm already playing.

[shoyurx]

Method 1 still works, this helped a ton. The new driver wouldn't detect my hdmi display so I had to rollback. Display came right back so it was definitely the driver.

[rfifapredicts]

I cant click on "Roll Back Driver" it is just grey. Please help...

[Rovnasanka]

Aye, thanks a lot lad, this fixed my issue with the newest NVIDIA driver, rolled it back cause it made Tarkov drop from 112 on average FPS to under 60 ( around 46-47 FPS ), for some reason I always regret getting the newest drivers, dunno why they always suck at first. ( Driver ver that messed it up was 546.65 )

[eXebeno]

you're a very good commentator. i wish i had the ability to speak as fluently as you can

[LadyOverlays]

Thank you very much, usefull here :
"The recent NVIDIA drivers (531.18 and 531.26) have an issue that causes Premiere Pro and After Effects to crash when used on machines with NVIDIA cards."

you saved me <3

[mr.hamster]

if i don't have the old version of the driver how can i get it?

[wee]

Thanks man. Geforce Experience new update really f'd up my monitors. Thanks for the options!

[ronitdhankar]

thanks bruh i downloaded the latest drivers on my pc and my games were not responding so now i rolled back my drivers and they are working. THANKS FOR THE INFORMATIVE VIDEO❤

[diamonddoggo]

Thank you so much. Honestly such a helpful video with all the methods and very well spoken through. Thank you again

[vini-York_Oxmall]

Update 551.86 made me watch this video

[kingdev]

Thanks 2nd one worked for me this time cuz roll back option was not available for me this time graphics was washed of but after using 2nd method it’s fixed now and also I turned off auto update for drivers

[CrimsonxBlades]

Thanks for a concise video with simple steps!

[zvck]

getting shitty graphics in AC odyessy after drivers update(531.41 ), how do i fix it ? and what version should i downgrade to get fps to get high graphics like i was getting ?

[ORO]

Looked this up since 531.18 was causing a shitstorm of issues for me. Thanks.

[jeremywalsh]

yeah but what it the roll back option is greyed out to begin with ?

[Ratpack]

this stuff saved me from a bad much disabled my DP ports, and i thought it was my VR headset that broke xD

[phusa]

thanks i don't know why new Geforce ver 551.23 can't work with my rtx 2060 super

[coffeeexmachina]

Thanks for the explanation, worked great.

[rajathturbo]

How to undo a roll back ? I'm updating the game driver but it doesn't seem to update there.