NVIDIA GT 335M Problems

Hello MajorGeeks!
I am now reporting here for an issue with my recently reformatted computer.
I've realized that none of the games I've tried to play are recognizing my main NVIDIA GT 335m drivers. The games are only running with the intel chip, or at least that's what I believe. The games don't even show up on the NVIDIA GPU (which means, these games are not using my graphics card for some reason). Any graphic settings I directly change on the NVIDIA Control Panel don't have any effect on the games. Even when a game provides an antialising or supersampling option, when I activate them, nothing really changes. I have terrible performance even on low settings.
I am using an Alienware M11x R-2 (overpriced thing I regret purchasing out of ignorance) running on Windows 7.

I will post some pictures with system specs and other info.

Also, I have downloaded and installed these drivers, to no avail:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-285.62-whql-driver.html
(and this next one is the one I am currently using)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-295.51-beta-driver.html

Also, I have DirectX11 installed. My card only supports 10.1 (thank you very much, automatic Windows Updates... :cry )

 

Sorry for double post, but this won't let me attach 5 files at a time, here's the last picture:

 

As this is a niche product, I don't know how many responses you'll get for this.

My view is that the nVidia Optimus/Alienware Fusion software is the first thing to be checked as that should be the auto-starting software that switches the computer over to nVidia graphics.

Software/driver updates you have made might have blocked or modified it.

DirectX 9.0c is needed for full backwards compatibility, even if you had a DX11 card (though I would hope that this was already factory-installed).

 

Check out this thread.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=196853

 

Yeah, tried that already. Tells me I have a newer version installed.

Well, thanks for trying guys. Guess I'm stuck with an overpriced computer unable to run games :/

 

Hmm, I read it as: you have to uninstall all non-Dell-supplied graphics drivers then install the correct Alienware drivers.

If any vital Registry settings, etc. are changed/missing, you may need to do a system Recovery back to the factory specs - backup any and all vital files before attempting this.