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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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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:
Still, at least in my case the upgrade of the BIOS to AGESA ComboAm4v2PI 1.2.0.7 & sound chip drivers solved completely the issue of GameInput App & Services.
Please come back if you find a possible solution and then explain how to proceed in more detail!
Tried this and unless I applied it wrong, it did not fix the issue for me. Looks like you either need to constantly watch and delete the folders and uninstall game input every time it updates or wait for Microsoft to eventually fix this. All my drivers are up to date, bios is on the current revision and cannot be downgraded, and even graphics drivers are updated. I literally formatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows 11 fresh and it still happens.
BRUTAL UPDATES
This is normal behaviour ( = Microsoft Windows components frequent crashes) on update of GameInput device or GameBar from the MS Store, even when input devices are not in use:
So sad 50% of MS applications do crash on regular updates instead of clean stopping task/services before installing 🤦🏻♂️
