Issues with the latest version of Dolphin

[Resus]

I haven't used this emulator for over 2 years now, I've never had issues with it in the past but after 2 years I decided to play some games and get the latest version and now I'm having nothing but issues with it.

The controls are unresponsive, sometimes it works but most of the times it won't which is weird, same with the hotkeys. I assign a hotkey (like ESC) to stop the emulation and it doesn't work so I have to stop it via "alt F4", the weird thing is that sometimes it works for no reason but then I decide to quit the emulator to try it again and it doesn't work anymore. I thought the issue was with the old configuration that I still had 2 years ago but that's not the case because I tried moving the folder containing the old configuration to another place to be able to create a "new configuration folder" and I still have the same issue, the controls are still unresponsive and I still can't stop the emulation with ESC so I'm still forced to close it via "alt F4". The emulator sometimes crashes when I try to close the main window as well.

The old version that I used 2 years ago is working fine but the newer versions are giving me problems, I also installed the "64-bit Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2019" to see if that fixed the issue but nope, still having the same issue.

BTW, I'm still using Windows 7 Ultimate (SP1)

Any help is appreciated, thanks.