Why is my vst3 appearing with a "?" In flstudio?

I can load the vst3 in flstudio and search for it in the plugin manager but it appears with a “?” I can then categorize it inside flstudio but when i use it like turn knobs the project crashes and says: FL Studio (21.0.3.3517) [64Bit] r37347 has encountered an error and needs to restart.

Crash log saved to C:\Users\rando\Documents\Image-Line\FL Studio\Support\Logs\Crash\ folder.

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OS Version:
Windows 11 (Version 22H2, OS Build 22621.1848, 64-bit Edition)

Exception:
External exception E06D7363

Callstack:
00007FFEBFDB0000:00007FFEBFE1536C: KERNELBASE.dll
00007FFE74550000:00007FFE7455B760: VCRUNTIME140D.dll
00007FFE6DBD0000:00007FFE6DC353BF: MSVCP140D.dll
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE69984BD2: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE699318B0: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE699617C0: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE6994A649: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE6993443E: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE69984CDD: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE699290C8: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE69308089: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
00007FFE691F0000:00007FFE6927381D: HARD CLIPPER.vst3
0000000067420000:00000000677A5058: EFruity Wrapper_x64.dll
0000000067420000:00000000677D2ECA: EFruity Wrapper_x64.dll
0000000067420000:00000000677D000D: EFruity Wrapper_x64.dll
0000000067420000:00000000677E8C27: EFruity Wrapper_x64.dll
0000000068600000:0000000068771415: QuickFontCache_x64.dll
0000000068600000:0000000068770BA3: QuickFontCache_x64.dll
00007FFEC1AD0000:00007FFEC1AE8231: USER32.dll
00007FFEC1AD0000:00007FFEC1AE7CF1: USER32.dll
00000000687E0000:0000000068D12FE0: FLEngine_x64.dll
00000000687E0000:0000000068D13108: FLEngine_x64.dll
00000000687E0000:0000000068D135DA: FLEngine_x64.dll
00000000687E0000:000000006956263A: FLEngine_x64.dll
00007FF768470000:00007FF7687717B6: FL64.exe
00007FF768470000:00007FF76877191A: FL64.exe
00007FF768470000:00007FF7684A0976: FL64.exe
00007FFEC1CD0000:00007FFEC1CE26AD: KERNEL32.DLL
00007FFEC2750000:00007FFEC27AA9F8: ntdll.dll

then my entire project freezes and becomes choppy BUT the actual vst knobs move and work as they should and process the sound correctly. what is happening? (i am making a hard clipper)
My workflow is Projucer > VisualStudios 2022 > testing standalone/ testing in Fl studio