It's possible I'm misunderstanding the docs, but here's the line that lead me to believe linking to one of their libraries alone would be enough (and lead to my surprise when it didn't work):

(https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/technologies/deskt...)

> For any application without an existing application profile, there is a set of libraries which, when statically linked to a given application executable, will direct the Optimus driver to render the application using High Performance Graphics. As of Release 302, the current list of libraries are vcamp110.dll, vcamp110d.dll, nvapi.dll, nvapi64.dll, opencl.dll, nvcuda.dll, and cudart..