RetroArch - Steamlink Controller issues

Hi LibRetro Com,

Wonder if anyone has ever had this issue before, tis a strange one,

I have steamlink and Retroarch 1.7.0 on win10 in another room,

initially everything was working fine with the usual Steamlink+regtoarch problems i.e Steam overlay needing to disabled also turning the joypad caught mouse keyboard mode off, i managed to fix these issues and all was good could play games without any controller conflicts, then one day for no reason the joypad (PS3 controller) stopped working over steam link (works locally), Steam detects the pad over the link and the pad works fine on Big picture mode and any other app over steam link, but when start Retroarch… nothing zilch, no menu controls what so ever, it worked before i swear i’m not going mad haha

BTW forgot to mention, Generic pad and xbox controller support is enabled on steam

Its been melting my brain trying to fix this,

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers, Flybot