Soundblaster Zx reproducible crash

Every time Path of Exile loads it turns off the surround sound on my sound blaster zx card. If I alt tab out and turn the surround sound back on it will stay functional until I log out or exit the game. What happens when I log out or exit the game with surround sound forced is a crash to desktop, no logs or error codes just a report in windows event log that the application stopped. If i leave the surround sound off it does not crash. Not sure if its POE's fault or sound blaster. This is the only game that does this so I point my finger at GGG.

I used to use that on my old computer with an audigy sound card. This new computer I have not tried that, I have had the sound card since April and I don't believe it ever did this until release of the game. I am not using steam to launch the game either. I don't know why loading POE in the first place is turning off my surround sound to begin with.