Sorry to hear that Shill
I remember I had a similar issue and I had used "Driver Sweeper" to uninstall the nvidia drivers, which....If I remember right....found all of the leftover files and I was good to go with the previous version. The program is now replaced with "Driver Fusion", now that I google'd it. The other way that had worked for me was just rolling back the driver right from device manager. All null and void now for you though....but hope you get back on your feet soon!