Xinput1_4.dll missing message

[LunaMoo]

Ever wondered why you're alone in this thread?
~ Maybe because no one else had such issue.;p

The behaviour you're describing simply can't happen in ppsspp, it's open source so you can easily check:]. PPSSPP checks for 1.4(requires win 8+ or win 8 SDK), then 1.3(requires DirectX June 2010 SDK) and when it still fails it returns a warning in the log console never printing any windows message about missing xinput 1_4 or anything like that;].

Which could mean you're using some unofficial ppsspp build or some third party dll loaders like shader injectors, gamepad driver or simply have some malware which might depend on it.