Games cause hard crashing instantly, GtX 1080

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I just got a brand new PC, Windows 10, GTX 1080, i7 6800k, and was in the process of OCing the GPU. It was stable at +300gpu/+350mem, so jumped all the way to +400/+450 as I had heard it was not uncommon for the card to reach 2ghz+ on air.

This caused a "hard crash" as in the monitor went blank and did not recover and the pc restarted itself but I still had to manually restart it to get an image back. After this, regardless of over clock, nearly all games crash instantly. Stares Valley and Mount and Blade Warband ran but BioShock 2 and anything more intensive do not.

My first though is to reinstall the Nvidia driver but as luck would have it a thunderstorm hit and am curretly out of power (on my phone) and just in case it is not a corrupted GPU driver I am making this post.

I've never had a driver get corrupted from OCing my GPU but it is apparently common while OCing the CPU (which I haven't done yet) and this has caused me some concern.
 

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The driver did work, but there is a new problem and one I have not faced before having owned several high end PCs over the years, much like the former problem.

For some reason I can not launch certain games, there are not many games currently on the PC but these will not launch yet games like Mad Max, Elite Dangerous, STALKER Clear Sky, Warthunder, and The Lab will.

Dark Souls 2 SotFS (won't launch at all),
Bioshock 2 (loads into the first image with a bunch of text then crashes to desktop),
ARK (won't launch at all),

Also 2 VR games do not launch, where the others do...

The Brookhaven Experiment (says "Installing VC Redist Package" and doesn't launch when done),
Nvidia VR Funhouse (asks me to install DirectX for UE4, does not open if I do or do not comply and also asks for VC Redist Package).

Very frustrating. Not sure what to do, I have done the "Veryify Game Integrity" for each game through Steam but have had no luck, I tried deleting the "Installscript.vdf" to help with the "Installing VC Redist Package" message but to no avail.

I am at a loss for what to do, I am thinking perhaps reinstalling them would be something to try but for me it is a hassle (very slow internet where I live so 10gigs takes anywhere from 15-25 hours) so any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 

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I tried running the games directly from their .exe's in their respective steam folders and I get the same message for each that can not run.

"Bad Image" and then "C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\XINPUT1_3.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error...".

This apparently has something to do with DirectX? I tried reinstalling DirectX using the web downloader but it will not let me as it detects the newest version of DirectX I have installed and exits. I also tried reinstalling Runtimes and C++ but the same thing happens.

The majority of these games were on my data HDD from my former PC which was Windows 8.1, so perhaps that may be an issue BUT the Nvidia VR Funhouse I installed today onto my other data HDD drive and it has the same error message and has not been in any different PCs, only the current one.