UE5 reverb is non-functional and causes crackling

[stamism3]

• Steam Audio version: 4.5.3
• Unreal Engine version: 5.4
• Operating System and version: windows 11

reverb in both real time and baked mode seems to just not work at all, it sounds like crackling noise and i cant figure out whats the cause for it, i tried getting a dev on my team to test out the steam audio UE plugin but it ended up crashing for them when they tried to play in editor, however playing in standalone DID work BUT the crackling noise was gone and there was still no actual reverb