Controller not working when loading ROMs

[8mono]

First of all, I want to thank the developers for making such an amazing emulator which I've played for countless hours, there really isnt anything remotely close to PPSSPP.

I have a recent problem now and its specific to version 1.4.2 when playing games on my DS3 controller it worked perfectly until yesterday. I changed absolutely nothing on the settings, it simply seemed to stop working, I checked DS3 tool and found no issues because it works perfectly BEFORE loading games (in the menu of PPSSPP itself) the problem is not present when I go back to any other version, its just 1.4.2

No important windows updates have happened, I have not unplugged the controller or done anything to the files either, controller works perfectly with other games, any advice??