game conttrollers have a wierd effect since win7. for instants. plugged in your monitor wont go to sleep or screensaver. win10 and up - hyper polling rate. which is good on a fast pc. your games will be fluid. downside. on a slow pc. eats your cpu time

in short. unplug till you need it

Go to Task Manager > right click that GameInout file > open location. Exit the game and then in Task Manager end that service task for GameInput. Now in the folder where it resides, delete it.

Go to Windows Settings and disable everything to do with Game Mode and Xbox Gamebaar and also don't forget there is a setting in there that allows you to activate the gamebar from your controller, so disable that option as well.

If using NVIDIA change settings in NVCP to:

Power management = prefer max performance.
Low Latency = on or ultra
Shader Cache = Unlimited
VSync = Fast
GSync = On and enabled for both windowed and full screen apps
Disable MFAA


Reboot the PC

why would the just start happening now though? i've been using the same dam controller for over a year , this is realy random.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Go to Task Manager > right click that GameInout file > open location. Exit the game and then in Task Manager end that service task for GameInput. Now in the folder where it resides, delete it.

Go to Windows Settings and disable everything to do with Game Mode and Xbox Gamebaar and also don't forget there is a setting in there that allows you to activate the gamebar from your controller, so disable that option as well.

If using NVIDIA change settings in NVCP to:

Power management = prefer max performance.
Low Latency = on or ultra
Shader Cache = Unlimited
VSync = Fast
GSync = On and enabled for both windowed and full screen apps
Disable MFAA


Reboot the PC

is it called GameInout file?

Originally posted by Kenpachi219:

why would the just start happening now though? i've been using the same dam controller for over a year , this is realy random.

Because a Windows Update just made such changes about 1 month ago. Tbat MS GameI put I jector was never there before. Just manually delete it with the service running

When i try to delete the folder I get the action cannot be completed becuase the file or folder or file in it is open in another program

Originally posted by Kenpachi219:

When i try to delete the folder I get the action cannot be completed becuase the file or folder or file in it is open in another program

Close anything that is using it. Including the software specifically for it, and an av/firewall window left open can sometimes interfere in some circumstances.

Originally posted by Kenpachi219:

When i try to delete the folder I get the action cannot be completed becuase the file or folder or file in it is open in another program

Exit game and Steam and turn off the controller. Wait a minute and if GameInput still running in Task Manager > Details end that process

ok so i was able to delete it trurn off the game bar and game mode settings but upon reboot it brikngs the files back and the application gameinput service is running again.

Ok tbat used to work.

Anyways press Winkey+R to bring up run. Type services.msc locate the GameInput service and change to Disabled. Then reboot the PC

Ok so I rebooted went to the file location an deleted the x86 version, kept the other one there are 2 versions in there, then spun up a game played for 10 mins with the controller and its working fine again. What a major bug, it tanked my performance by at least half when that is running int the background.

Can someone help me, I used my password several times on Steam but it was wrong, so Steam wouldn't let me log into my account anymore.

Originally posted by alexandrerafael6272:

Can someone help me, I used my password several times on Steam but it was wrong, so Steam wouldn't let me log into my account anymore.

There is a cool down period when you do that I do believe. Give it about 1 hour then take the steps to reset your pw