fmod crash

[Meerkat]

Got the game today and have been unable to get it running. first problem was related to microphone detection and nahimic (the standard software for MSI machines) and now i have an error on loading into a game that quotes the problematic frame as fmod64.dll.

 

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x00007ffcbfb97246, pid=15588, tid=0x0000000000003d20
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_121-b13) (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.121-b13 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [fmod64.dll+0xc7246]
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\hs_err_pid15588.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
 

any ideas on what i can do, hopefully aside from running with -nosound, as i have wanted to play this game for quite a while.