CS6 too small on Surface 3 device

I just purchased a Surface 3. Very happy with the device, but bought it because it touted being able to run Photoshop. I installed CS6 and the icons are too small to read! I noticed that Creative Cloud has a new option in Preferences called "Experimental Feature" where one can chose to "Scale UI 200%", however this is not an option with the CS6 Creative Suite I have purchased. Is there a solution?

There is none. CS6 does not support high-DPI devices on Windows.
Mylenium

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