Hi Peter.  Well, I tried for another few hours.  Not working.  Resolution is at 1920 x 1080 so I changed to various lower resolutions, no change.  Tried various scaling options.  This is Windows 8, I had "stardock" installed to give me back Start menu from Win 7.  Uninstalled stardock to see if that might help, nope.  I played with the split screen, that did help a little bit but not enough to make it useable on a daily basis.  Who knows.   It is definitely some sort of pixelation thing, when I move my mouse over the UI, I can make it look a bit better (the screen fills in some).   I'm up for other idea's but right now seems like a no go on my particular system.  Such is life :-). 

absolutely.  Does this attachment help?

Trying to demo on my main rig so I can purchase, the UI is unreadable on my setup.  Looks fine on my Microsoft Surface pro (I tried it to make sure I'm not nuts), but not on my high end XPS 8500 with I7-3770 / AMD HD7770 into my HD TV.  It's not the TV as the UI looks fine through the minidisplay port on the Surface Pro to my HDTV.  Maybe I need to tweak my graphics card settings or ?  I have been trying to do this for hours.. can you help me fix this problem?  The word I'd use is pixelated, I can see the background of the UI but not the buttons, or menus, etc.  Thanks!