Game audio through speakers not headphones

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System details: Windows 10, Acer Aspire laptop (~7 months old? No issues thus far). Is there anything else to try? I thought uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them would fix it, but nope. I uninstalled both and they both came back after restarting. My device manger does have 2 drivers listed which I thought was weird, but maybe it has always been like this? I'm not sure honestly. So far I've updated the drivers, uninstalled the drivers completely and reinstalled them (automatically after restarting laptop), and have checked for updates on my computer (all up to date). I've checked for any conflicting devices in here and ensured everything was enabled as per usual. When I open the 'Playback devices' dialogue from right clicking the speaker in the task bar it shows the green equalizer bar moving up and down if something is playing, but there's no audio. The volume is definitely up and I found that headphones work fine. Turned the game off and started testing using YouTube, still nothing. Checked audio settings in the game, all was good. It was working just a few days ago from what I remember and now tonight when I was playing a game in Steam the audio just wasn't working.

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I'm really baffled here as to what's going on with my laptop audio.