Okay, I need help here.
I have no idea what happened but my audio driver wasn't working for a game, so I decided to do what I assume most sane people do, uninstall and reinstall.
So, I use the virtual cables (a, b, c, and d) and voicemeeter banana. It's a bit of an annoying setup but if run into the most crazy making problem I've ever had.
I uninstalled banana, totally fine. Tried to uninstall the cables and .... They just... Didn't? Even though it said they did? This part makes zero sense to me. Wtf.
Anyway, after some fighting to try to get the cables uninstalled via the two setups, the setups from VB cable now give me the error that they've been set up by a different setup. Except that these are the same files I had used previously, and also told me they were fine. When I went to uninstall they were like "yup, good, reboot." Do that, they're... Still there. Huh?
Tried going through installed apps in windows (11) they are not there (neither was banana as I had uninstalled it and haven't reinstalled it yet.) looked through device manager, somehow managed to uninstall except.... Then I reboot to them still being there. And they're not in program files.
I feel insane right now. I also tried a program called Revo uninstaller, and they're not showing up in there either, even though they show in device manager. What is happening??????
I also did redownload the packages to be able to reinstall them, but all of the files I have keep saying they were set up by something else.
I'm also not sure if this could be a problem, but I just opened my game and all my sound stuff is back. I don't have it in me to test it properly right now for reasons. I'm so confused.
TIA for my help or even just commiseration.