Question regarding G510 and switchable graphic cards

So as I have mentioned in another post, my machine is the G510 with i5 cpu, 4 gigs of ram, HD4500 integrated video card and 2GB HD8570M dedicated video card.
My question is the following> Ok, the whole switchable thing is nice and all, but I'm having some issues with games recognizing my dedicated card, even if I put them on high performance through the switchable program by AMD. Is there a way to deactivate the integrated card once and for all and only use the dedicated one? What I have done right now is simply uninstall the intel graphics drivers, and disable the integrated device from the device manager. I have currently installed the AMD drivers from the AMD website and am about to restart my pc to see if it is working. If not, please feel free to give me any advice on how to do this or feel free to give me an answer to my question.

cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch should tell you wich one is powered. Do not forget to restart X whenever you switch cards.

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Performance Information and Tools
More details about my computer
Component Details Subscore Base score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz 7.0 5.9 Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB 7.5 Graphics Intel(R) HD Graphics Family 6.6 Gaming graphics 5861 MB Total available graphics memory 6.6 Primary hard disk 298GB Free (462GB Total) 5.9 Windows 7 Home Premium
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Performance Information and Tools More details about my computerComponent Details Subscore Base score Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz 7.0 5.9 Determined by lowest subscore Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB 7.5 Graphics Intel(R) HD Graphics Family 6.6 Gaming graphics 5861 MB Total available graphics memory 6.6 Primary hard disk 298GB Free (462GB Total) 5.9 Windows 7 Home PremiumSystem Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard Model HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC Total amount of system memory 8.00 GB RAM System type 64-bit operating system Number of processor cores 2 Storage Total size of hard disk(s) 1397 GB Disk partition (C 298 GB Free (462 GB Total) Disk partition (D 325 GB Free (932 GB Total) Disk partition (E 1 GB Free (4 GB Total) Media drive (F CD/DVD Graphics Display adapter type Intel(R) HD Graphics Family Total available graphics memory 6373 MB Dedicated graphics memory 2560 MB Dedicated system memory 0 MB Shared system memory 3813 MB Display adapter driver version 8.882.2.3000 Primary monitor resolution 1366x768 DirectX version DirectX 10
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Hi,
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