Failed to init FMOD system. Error code 51

I was prepping for another league today and had issue with patching the game (patcher would freeze and crash without error) and windows event viewer has said there was a issue with bad drive.
After checking with several programs, my drives were fine so I figured the game was just being a bit of a problem child and decided to reinstall it.

Patching worked and no more errors, but now there's a new error: the game crashes to desktop without erroring after the patcher.
Finding this error message in the logs:

"[EXCEPTION] Failed to init FMOD system. Error code 51"

Seemingly it has something to do with the sound system, closed Voicemeter and viola, it worked.

However, I do want to use voicemeter and just changing the sound setting in the game itself will make it not work anyhow whenever voicemeter is on.

How do I fix this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/VoiceMeeter/comments/sbsfpl/voicemeeter_potato_no_longer_picks_up_new_games/

Thanks for the reply. So far changing any option ingame doesn't work. Changing default device in Windows itself works but then I can't use hardware volume control. I assume I'll have to sacrifice it to get sound.

I get this issue before the GGG animation plays, so no option to change the sound controls. It worked last night, so this is bizzare.

Fixed, my sound device was not properly loaded in windows. Showed up fine, just did nothing. Had to disable/enable in device manager to resolve.

This made it into POE2 as well, since this morning I cant get into the game, I restarted voicemeter a few times, no change, weird part is I played last night and I did not restart the computer since then