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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.
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Any updates? A few feeks ago my pc started crashing, only sometimes when i alt tab. Not really crashing but mouse moves choppy and slow as hell, constant beeps. I cant really do anything other then restart manually with the power button. i just seen this and went back to all the times that it has happened and they all say the game input reconfig message at each event.
Cant really remove xbox app because i use for voice chat with alot of friends who mainly use xbox.
Removing the Xbox app hasn't been proven to work so no need. What else have you been running say on another screen while you try and play your games?
I believe but I could be talking out my **** with my memory the way it is that it only crashed while gaming if I was running a movie / tv show video on my other screen. If I only ran the game, no crash.
What's the Solution here nothing seems to work this **** keeps coming back and crashing PC mid work and during important stuff, I tried all the solutions but this gameinput still comes back and everytime it tries to reconfigure it causes my PC to hard crash/Stuck and i have to force shut my PC. My PSU will fry someday along with the graphics card. I almost had a seizure the other day because the PC crashed while i was playng a game wearing the headphones and it hanged up on me with extremely loud crashing sound blaring through my headphones.
Hey
There's a large thread with users trying to fix this (below), would be great if you could contribute so that everything is in one place, and it might just get MS's attention:
So far, the only solution seems to be to completely delete the Xbox app and all of it's redistributables and services, such as gameinput and gameservices. You can, however, keep any gamepass games installed and play them via a desktop shortcut even without the Xbox app. Far from ideal, but better than anything MS has offered up so far....
I uninstalled gameinput in the usual way through Windows "add or remove programmes", then removed all of the Xbox services through the powershell by following the relevant instructions at the following link:
Alternatively, some have found that this simple powershell command (run as administrator) does the job:
Get-AppxPackage *gamingservices* -allusers | remove-appxpackage -allusers
Hope that helps... and I hope MS pull their fingers out and try to fix this properly. It's ludicrous that this has been going on for so long.
as today and using the latest Win 11 22h2, gameinput keeps messing with the entire system, crashing it upon reconfiguring it, I just want this thing stop reconfiguring, it is there, why keeps doing it?
