Not having much luck running Windows 8 in BootCamp

Just updated to OS 10.8.3 and downloaded the updated Bootcamp driver that are supposed to support windows 8.
However after installing when windows starts up, it is confined to less that 1/4 of the screen on the left side, the rest is black screen. And I cannot see hardly anything just some background.
I tried using VMWare Fusion 5 to run bootcamp as a vm and it works perfect. I was able to complete the setup and load windows. After that my thought was to try and run the bootcamp drivers setup from inside the VM but it wouldn't let me run it.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

I would navigate the usb sticks with the drivers on
to get to amd/ati or nvidia to manually install the video card drivers
the reason vmware works is that it being a virtual machine does not use
the real video card drivers for the video card which bootcamp does (which is why we can play games from there)

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