This is the gold standard for driver issues.

Go to and click "Pause for 1 week." This usually gives you enough time to see if a newer, fixed driver is released later.

With a sense of trepidation, Alex embarked on the perilous journey of rolling back his NVIDIA drivers. He downloaded the older version, 445.46, and installed it with a mixture of hope and skepticism. As the installation process completed, he held his breath, waiting for the system to reboot.

We’ve all been there. You see a shiny new Game Ready or Studio driver update, hit “Install,” and suddenly… chaos. Games stutter, your second monitor goes black, or your CUDA workloads start throwing cryptic errors.

NVIDIA, however, remained oblivious to the growing discontent. Its developers continued to churn out drivers, each one a potential Pandora's box of bugs and issues. But Alex and his fellow rebels had discovered a secret: that sometimes, going back was the best way to move forward.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through exactly why you might need to roll back, and the three best ways to do it on Windows (plus a note for Linux users).

For stubborn problems, you want . It nukes every trace of the old driver.

If your system was working perfectly yesterday but is problematic today, rolling back to the previous driver version is often the best fix.

A bad NVIDIA driver can ruin your day, but rolling back takes less than 10 minutes. Always start with Device Manager’s Rollback button. If that fails, DDU + clean install will save you.