Well, I have tinkered with testing different settings and wasn't very happy with any of them. I swapped monitors (HDMI cable) and found some more crummy test results. I then used a VGA cable and the tests looked better (not perfect) with the new monitor & VGA cable. I fired up the game and it is crystal clear... Maybe I will swap back the monitor/cable to verify it was indeed all hardware related. Menu is clear, 1024x768 looks great.