GPU acceleration for video editing

I am using cyberlink power director 12, adobe premiere elements 12, and sony vegas 12 (yes a lot of 12's). Problem is, my new notebook (msi gt70 dominator pro) doesn't let the NVidia 880m run for acceleration. I've used all these programs on desktop and with my previous 7 asus g750 laptops (the asus kept overheating so went msi). They all work great.
 Nvidia geoforce is all set up optimum, and ive tried integrated and dedicated for each program (not that it should matter which is using to use program). All settings in the programs themselves are checked for hardware/gpu acceleration. This isn't my first time doing this, and laptop/desktop side by side all settings are identical. But when I go to the produce section, the box for acceleration isn't valid to click, no matter what final format I choose. Out of all 7 asus laptops ive had last 6 months, all of them worked just fine.
 Any help, please. Shame I spent so much on laptop, finally got one that doesn't thermal throttle, and now programs don't work. I also reinstalled windows and programs once already, and that didn't fix it. All drivers are also 100% up to date.
 Components are different than the asus, but that shouldn't matter. Asus had i7 4700 and gtx 860m/870m/880m ( I went through all of them jm js jz), my msi has i7 4810/4900 and 880m.

I've been working on this problem for days now, I was up until 2am this morning trying to figure it out.
I then plugged my monitor into my laptop for my son to watch music videos while I did some things around the house, and noticed that as soon as I plugged in the monitor it switched over to NVidia graphics not intel. While trying to figure this one out, I loaded power director to work on a movie, rendering takes so long I figure I should start now while im busy. Well, gpu acceleration works just fine. Just as before. I did absolutely nothing different.
Still haven't figured out how to run second screen off intel graphics, but now I don't know if I want to since that's the only thing that's changed and now gpu acceleration is working fine.

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