Roll Back NVIDIA Driver: 13 Steps, 35 Min [2026]

NVIDIA shipped GeForce Game Ready Driver 621.01 WHQL, and soon after owners were posting about video playback that freezes after the install. A WindowsForum write-up from October 24 lays out the workaround most of them landed on: roll back to 617.42, the RTX Spark launch driver NVIDIA released earlier. This rollback NVIDIA driver tutorial walks through that move on Windows 11 in 13 steps, with three methods, a PowerShell project, and a long troubleshooting list.

One caveat up front. The freeze is a user-reported problem, and the rollback is a user-reported fix. Several hardware…