I got it, what happened was stupid too.
So in the game files I had to manually change it so that EAC was disabled. I had to reinstall windows the other day due to a brief power outage while my computer was on running a couple of scans (lobng story short, windows 10 found a way to corrupt itself in the process). I keep all my games installed on a different hard drive than the OS so that if my drive ever fails, or something that Microsoft borks, I don't have to reinstall all my crap.
All in all, windows has once again proven to me why I wish they kept windows 7 around. Some how the files must've gotten goofy and confused the game -shrugs-