I found a fix to my all whitenoise or all static audio in VPX. I did a clean install of windows and also VPX. I then manually went through all the updates and my project still would not play audio correctly even though the video was fine.

I checked and the 60fps 1080 clip was still H264.

The final fix for me was to create a new project after all the updates were installed then import the clip.

I think because I was using an old project created before the updates, the audio issue persisted.