Currently I'm having an issue with WASAPI when using the format reported by the OS and it's WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE (which is needed for certain devices, or else the audio stream won't open with E_INVALIDARGS all for standard IEEE floating point format WITH NO CHANGES!!!), meaning I get no sound even though the stream is initialized and stuff.

However, every time I try to search any WASAPI related issues, all I get is either 10+ years old stackoverflow posts at best (I'd rather die a painful death than to re-register to that hellsite - I got a year long ban every time I posted there, once exactly due to asking about WASAPI, and all I got told to just use SDL, meanwhile SDL forums instead wanted me to use a 3rd party DLLs for live audio playback, by writing it first to a WAV file(!!!)), and otherwise my search result is instead flooded with general purpose Windows troubleshooting tips.

No, I also don't want to use AI slop. I don't know whether the sycophancy of AI or the elitism of stackoverflow users are worse.