Well it's working now, full controls and savability.
I reinstalled my vid drivers, same set I was previously using...
updated video driver version the game did not like (could not see any menu item on game start screen, was like omg)
After running the Steam validating tool 20 times.... it finally found 5 problems, which it fixed.
turned game on and all was working perfectly
My feelings about what happened was eighter patch was updated, or steam had problems that they fixed.
Thanks for the help everyone.