Chose the wrong driver - game dosn´t start

[boehm-andreas]

Hey there, dumb me fiddled around with the graphic drivers in-game and I accidentally clicked on an AMD driver instead of Nvidia. The game crashed and I can´t run it anymore. I de- and re-installed it twice. Any tips are much ppreciated. Thanks and best regards!

[_I_]

ask in the games forum how to reset its settings to default

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I'm not even sure what you mean. What did you select?
Games don't have such an option. They see what you have and run based on that.
Did you mean like AMD FSR vs NVIDIA DLSS? As some games might have such options and choosing such an option "might" cause some games o crash on launch when used.

But yes go to the game specific forum discussion.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/#games
^ Use the search box to the right hand side (search by game)

Or bring up Steam Client > click the game in your Library > from there go to Discussions

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

You could change it in AppData (I have seen instances where you can simply change it and had to do so for a couple of games for nearly the same reason as OP → mis-clicking the wrong resolution) but I doubt if OP is asking here they do not know how to manually change configurations (most times reinstalling the game will not work even when deleting all associated files in documents, appdata, etc... but sometimes it will revert backwards).

Manually configuring/changing data in these files is straight-forward, simple and can be done thru "Notepad", although I have an affinity for "Notepad++".

[Mr White]

Trying re-install Windows. Usually clears and Windows will reinstall the drivers. Then re-install your games. Then select the update NVIDIA driver for your card

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by Red Moon:

Trying re-install Windows. Usually clears and Windows will reinstall the drivers. Then re-install your games. Then select the update NVIDIA driver for your card

This is terrible advice.

[andreasaspenberg575]

your best bet is to find out where the game stores its settings and then wipe them. some games stores their settings in the registry. you find it by searchng for the game there. some games stores their settings in your documents folder and some games stores their settings locally in the installed folder. though the fact that you already reinstalled rules that out.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Red Moon:

Trying re-install Windows. Usually clears and Windows will reinstall the drivers. Then re-install your games. Then select the update NVIDIA driver for your card

Windows don't do nothing for drivers. Those are just generic plug and play place holder drivers so the system has basic functions. The official drivers still need to be downloaded and installed by the user

[Ontrix_Kitsune]

Which game are you referring to? People can't help you if you don't tell us what game you're talking about.

[Carlsberg]

Fiddled with graphic settings in game - so probably not gpu driver because we don't do that 'in-game'. do we?

What did we reinstall twice? game or gpu? - If gpu driver then it may not change in-game settings.

Did it crash? - an in-game setting may cause no display, that does not mean the machine crashed.

No further comment from OP so likely its sorted or they gave up.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then fiind out where the game stores those config files and delete them then relaunch game and you'll be back at default graphic settings once again.

Usually some where within Documents, Saved Games or AppData folders