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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-06T21:35:19+00:00

    I'm pretty sure I read this elsewhere, but, in my case, what I was sure was GameInput crashing my computer was, in fact, a bad stick of RAM. Like others, it seemed like every time my computer crashed it was preceded in the logs by GameInput running an attempting to do something. I restarted and let Windows check my memory using the "Windows Memory Diagnostic" reboot process and the bad memory was identified almost immediately. After a couple of tries, I isolated and pulled the right stick, (and have since replaced it) and have had no further crashes. I wish good luck to those that come behind me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-11-29T04:10:29+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-06T16:12:23+00:00

    the problem with this is it tampers the Minecraft Launcher (since I play it)

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-12T22:43:24+00:00

    Thanks, I was having the same problem when gaming.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-07-10T21:57:52+00:00

    I was struggling with this for about a month, with GameInput crashing my Windows and rebooting, though with me it wasn't just during games but several times a day at random, when I came across this post. I followed all the steps from Mosken other than the last one to repair corrupted files, but the Windows Update brought it back on me as well and I had to re-remove the folders. So I'm pausing Windows updating to a specific day, and once a month setting a calendar event to do all these steps again the day after each time.

    For me, the pausing or turning off of the updates failed to make a difference. The muppets have made it so it gets "updated" or "re-installed" regardless. Thus still crashing.

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