Kodi audio settings, where stored? Losing audio selection on restart

For some reason, every time i relaunch Kodi.. my sound card selection gets lost and i have no sound.. it should be defaulting to WASPI and my receiver name.. instead on each load, it defaults to DIRECTSound..

Does anyone know where this setting is stored.. i thought in roaming \ kodi \ userdata, but i'm not seeing it anywhere?

I'm thinking ill just force a default setting file if that keeps the sound choice on open (batch file).. not my favorite choice but it would work..

Unless anyone knows of a permanent fix here?

Thanks in advance