Microsoft Gameinput Crashes

Question

The pc has been crashing at random intervals, mostly while playing games such as apex, dark and darker, or the finals. When pulling up the reliability monitor, it states that Microsoft Gameinput reconfigured successfully, at exactly the same time as an error for windows shutting down incorrectly. In order to resolve this, uninstallation of gameinput was done, and it was disabled in services.msc so that it would not reinstall. Since then it has repeatedly reinstalled itself without warning, and during other activities, causing more crashes, some of which will not allow the pc to turn off without removing power. I would like to resolve the crashes from this program permanently in any way I can.

Answer 1

Hi Vahlok

Thanks for posting in the Microsoft Q&A Forum!

I’m sorry you’re running into this, random hard crashes during gaming are extremely frustrating.

Microsoft GameInput cannot be permanently removed on Windows 11. It’s a core gaming component, and games or Gaming Services will automatically reinstall or reconfigure it even if you uninstall it or disable it in Services. That behavior is expected.

What does cause crashes in many cases is duplicate or leftover GameInput components:

• Two GameInput services or binaries (for example, one in System32 and an old one in Program Files (x86))
• Old GameInput packages left behind after updates or controller drivers

What you can do next:

1. Verify that only ONE GameInput service is present

• Open services.msc
• You should see only one GameInput-related service (usually GameInput Service or XboxGipSvc)
• If you see duplicates or inconsistent paths, that’s a red flag

2. Check for leftover GameInput binaries

• Look for GameInputSvc.exe in:
  • C:\Windows\System32
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft GameInput\
• If an older copy exists in Program Files (x86) while another exists in System32, this has repeatedly been linked to crashes

3. Remove the old GameInput package only (not the system one)

• Uninstall Microsoft GameInput from Settings > Apps > Installed apps
• After uninstalling, verify that:
  • The Program Files (x86)\Microsoft GameInput folder is gone
  • Only the System32 service remains
• Reboot once and confirm only one service is running

4. Treat crashes as a system stability issue, not a GameInput bug Microsoft’s own guidance is clear here:

• GameInput is usually the trigger, not the root cause
• GPU drivers, chipset drivers, BIOS/UEFI, or controller drivers often cause the actual fault during reconfiguration or heavy input polling while gaming

Feel free to update here if there's progress!

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Answer 2

had the same problem started yesterday without reason it seems never happened before, opened the reliability panel same thing reconfigure successfully solved by opening the services.msc finding gameinput and gameinput redist service double click, initialization type put to disabled restart pc.

also another thing may not apply to you but my pc was crashing a lot way before this with games kernel event 141,117 a few others code i dont remember on the top of my head all gpu related, dont have the money do replace so need at least a temp fix what i did that worked was opening the nvidia control panel and changing energy preference to preference for maximum perfomance and turning on low latency mode.