Game controller settings keep evaporating in 1.0

[herbal space program]

I'm playing 1.0 in Windows 8 using a Nintendo-style game controller, and I'm finding that every time I start the game without the controller plugged in (at least I think this is what is causing it), all of my joystick axis bindings evaporate and have to be re-specified for every situation, which can only be done from the outermost game menu. Needless to say, when playing hard career mode it is a real drag to find that the Kerbal you just sent out the hatch has no jetpack control! Moreover, if I'm in a situation where I can go out to that menu and try to fix it without killing all my Kerbals, I find that the interface is all messed up, and it won't let me fix it until I quit the game entirely and re-load it with the controller plugged in. This has resulted in quite a bit of annoyance for me, and has never been a problem AFAIK in any previous version.

On a related note, selecting "settings" from the in-flight escape menu not only doesn't give you the option of re-specifying axis bindings, it also snaps the screen resolution to a different value, that cannot be changed, which in my case made the navball completely invisible, bringing another perfectly good flight to an untimely end. Anyway, it would be great if this presumably unintended behavior could be patched at some point.

(update)...Upon reading down the forum a couple of pages, I found another thread where ThatDude624 described a very similar problem yesterday, involving both the messed-up axis assignment interface and the screen resolution glitch, so you can count me as another person experiencing the same bug!

Edited May 2, 2015 by herbal space program

[rodion_herrera]

Same with joystick controls.