That's my bad. I am running windows 11, I installed the Quartus 23.1.1 version and got the drivers from the intel website with the Quartus lite software. I also had the 20.1 version in combination with Modelsim the issue was that the drivers couldn't get installed as I would update the drivers manually through the device manager, but the update didn't go through. I also correctly assigned the right location for the drivers but not specifying within the driver subfolder, and I also downloaded the specific MAX 10 support file.
I have now resolved the issue however, as deleting all the software versions and then reinstalling the 23.1.1 version back seemed to solve the problem.