Microsoft GameInput Application Reconfiguration Crashes Win 11 PC

Anonymous
2022-06-15T14:58:21+00:00

When playing any of my games launched through Battle.net my entire PC will crash, when checking the Reliability Monitor 100% of the time the crash is preceded by a "Successful application reconfiguration" of Microsoft GameInput. I have zero need for GameInput and for what I play I have no issues when I uninstall GameInput, but Microsoft forces the install each time my computer restarts.

I've looked for this issue an is appears it started for users with Windows 10 but there's no solution ever found. Microsoft support has people check their drivers, etc (all of my drivers are up to date and Windows is fully up to date) but no actual solution is offered. As far as I'm concerned I own my computer and should be able to determine which services I do or do not have installed on my PC but Microsoft is forcing this buggy install and I am unable to delete or otherwise modify the root folder this application is contained in.

I'm desperate for some sort of solution to this problem and it would be great if Microsoft would fix whatever this issue is. Having to remember to uninstall this app every time I want to play a game on my gaming PC is frustrating.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-11T01:50:48+00:00

    It must be clear that Windows 11 22H2 has strenghtened security....

    I appreciate the goal of making Windows more secure, but there is some irony here: instead of letting the bad guys crash your computer, Microsoft will do it for you.

    For the record, I do have all the latest Windows updates installed and I'm on the latest BIOS and chipset drivers, etc for my X570 motherboard. Maybe my usage is atypical - I only turn off my computer for required reboots. Otherwise, I put it to sleep between sessions so I can maintain work in progress. Losing work unnecessarily is why this issue is so annoying. My hypothesis is the update fails because the attempt happens while the computer is sleeping.

    Anyway, I did make a change and since then I haven't (yet) had this problem. What I did was to modify the group policy in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/WIndows Update/Legacy Policies, to disable “Enable Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system…”. Or maybe Microsoft fixed it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-12T00:28:12+00:00

    none of them work

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-12T08:07:44+00:00

    Nothing new, also other XBox components crash on update randomly... This can't be fixed: it's a bug by Microsoft in the update process (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft GameInput\x64\gameinputsvc.exe c0000374 Heap Corruption) clearly with low pri for them. When auto-updating it will simply crash randomly, 'till MS will finally fix it one day.

    In the meanwhile I will try with the following compatibility fix (using Microsoft Compatibility Administrator tool), let's see if it will work:

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    Well, since I did this I have no GameInput crash logs in the Reliability Monitor anymore, and on every reboot I see the GameInput Service reconfiguration thing logged (but no crash). Just a coincidence?

    I did the workaround above in Nov 22. As of today I have no random "Microsoft GameInput" crashes anymore after reboot:

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    Please, try my above solution using Microsoft Compatibility Administrator tool (download the Toolkit from here: Windows ADK, and select for download only the: Application Compatibility Tools, ~12MB) and create a gameinputsvc.exe fix selecting "FaultTolerantHeap"...

    It seems to have worked for me (or it solved by itself but I doubt).

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-08T00:32:58+00:00

    Please, try my above solution using Microsoft Compatibility Administrator tool (download the Toolkit from here: Windows ADK, and select for download only the: Application Compatibility Tools, ~12MB) and create a gameinputsvc.exe fix selecting "FaultTolerantHeap"...

    It seems to have worked for me (or it solved by itself but I doubt).

    After a quiet period, I returned to a crashed computer. Again.

    I am trying your FaultTolerantHeap fix. I will update based on my experience. Thanks for trying to be helpful in any case.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-09T05:05:17+00:00

    So far the best solution has been disabling the Gameinput service, really it’s not needed and forcefully being installed over and over, but service remains disabled

    That should be optionally disabled in system components or being replaced or wiped for good

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