

550+ has Explicit Sync, which indeed causes a variety of issues still. Newer versions does bring things like multi monitor VRR, increased performance in VR and Wayland hardware cursors (and probably more).
DX12 support is usually handled through VKD3D, which has an open issue on the latest Nvidia driver. The ticket suggests you have to run at least Kernel version 6.9.3.
Rolling back the driver version would probably be through downgrade together with nvidia-utils and lib32-nvidia-utils, you can chain them in one command to satisfy the dependency resolver. e.g. sudo downgrade nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils. Make sure to check if you run nvidia or nvidia-dkms.











… And he said it might work on wsl, which is Linux on windows translation layer, including graphics support.
A lot of Linux tooling has opened up to windows users because of it, which would include darling, to run mac apps, via wsl, on windows.