Keeping your video drivers up to date is crucial for optimizing performance in Windows 11. However, there are also rare cases where an update may cause graphical anomalies in applications, produce choppy FPS (frames per second) in games, or impact the stability of the operating system.

If a driver update for your NVIDIA graphics card is causing problems, you may want to roll back to a previous version during routine troubleshooting. This tutorial will show you how to roll back or uninstall NVIDIA drivers in Microsoft Windows.

Let’s say you started experiencing issues right after updating your NVIDIA graphics card drivers. In that case, you can use Device Manager in Windows 11 to roll back to the driver version you had before. Here’s how:

Note: If the Roll Back option is grayed out, it means that there is no previous driver version to roll back to. For example, you may have uninstalled older versions during the last driver update.