How best to manage Windows on a Retina Display?

I'm running a Macbook Pro 15" Retina, set up with Windows 8.1 on a Boot Camp partition, that I also access from within Mac OS X Mavericks using Fusion 6 (whatever the current version is). This means I've spent a bit of time trying to sort out the fun and excitement of using Windows on a Retina display, which is a whole world of chaos. Within Fusion, the secret is to tell Windows to just not use the full Retina HD display capabilities. Hobbled, but things display as you'd expect.
When I boot up using Boot Camp, however, there are still all mannger of issues that I can't seem to tame using the adapative scaling settings in the Displays control panel. Mainly pertaining to Java apps and games. A particular Java program I need appears to ignore the Windows settings and scales all text at impossibly small sizes (practically unreadable). Games like Neverwinter seem to freak out, with the UI failing to redraw to accomodate the resolution, and even having the entire active game window displayed as a large moving postage stamp in one corner -- not windowed, just tiny and in the corner like a misguided picture-in-picture view.
So, there appears to be all sorts of things that handle resolution in different ways. The consistent them is that they all seem to freak out when they're on a Retina display.
Any tips or guidance?
Thanks!

You have to copy the catalog and the previews folder over to your laptop. You know that you can't work in the Develop Module without the image files. But you can add keywords, titles, flags, color labels, etc.
You find the catalog by going >Edit >Catalog Setting >General tab. Note the name and location. Then in Win Explorer navigate to this location. The catalog is the file with the extension < .lrcat> and the previews folder has the extension < .lrdata> and is located next to the catalog. Copy both to your laptop. On your laptop - after Lr is installed - double-click the catalog file and Lr will open with it.
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