Microsoft GameInput Application Reconfiguration Crashes Win 11 PC

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.

This issue seems to come and go for me. It's frustrating, I run the same hardware with Linux with no issues.

I just wanted to add that making sure relevant drivers are up-to-date seems to help for me. For some reason I had three crashes yesterday, so I had to address the issue as it was interfering with my work. Every crash coincided with a GameInput reconfiguration.

I decided to go after the drivers after what GiuseppeMichieli wrote. I should note that I do not use secure boot, because I boot into Linux as well as Windows, which doesn't work seamlessly with secure boot on. I already had up-to-date BIOS. My system is x470 Taichi with Ryzen 9 5950x. GPU is Nvidia GTX 1660. I grabbed the latest drivers for sound (I had a blue screen after installing sound), GPU and chipset. System has been stable for 24 hours and there have been four GameInput reconfigurations. 24 hours is not that much time, but I had three crashes within an hour and they stopped after I installed the aforementioned drivers. I thought I should share this given how frustrating I'm sure this issue is to other users.

It must be clear that Windows 11 22H2 has strenghtened security, so that various devices have to 'dialogue' one with another in a determined manner, orchestrated by the BIOS and the TPM fw/hw. That said, an user must be aware of: 1) determine system BIOS version and - if obsolete - update to the newest version; 2) it has to install the OS with EFI partition on boot device; 3) setting-up 'secure-boot' in the BIOS; 4) graphic card or integrated device must be compatible with secure-boot environment.

My experience with an MSI B450 chipset system with AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU is that after updating BIOS, no further occurrence of game-input faults happened.

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For anyone that might still be having this issue, I managed to "fix" it by uninstalling GameInput (via Apps & Features in Settings) and then completely removing Windows Gaming Services via Powershell. The main downside to this solution is that you will be unable to use the Xbox App, so if you regularly use GamePass, this might not be a viable option for you.

To remove WGS, use this:

Launch Powershell as an administrator, copy and paste the following command (in bold):

get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers

Was having the same issue. After reading this thread, I tried the powershell commands. I was also able to remove the Microsoft GameInput and the XBox application from the Apps and Features list. Restarted several times and they have not come back. Will see how this goes.

I found the problem was increasing to several times per day. I found the association with the Game Input updates in the "View Reliability History" window. The succssful Microsoft Game Iput reconfiguration happened at the same time as the crash every time.

Hey, just checking is to see how is this working out for you - have you had any crashes since kicking Xbox etc?

Mine's still clocking in at 1 a day...