Hi Joel,
I can certainly understand the frustration over this issue. Sadly it does seem an issue with your particular Surface as I don't seem to experience the same issues.
For the display I'm using the default resolution and configuration. I haven't changed any display settings to run CrazyTalk 8. I also had a try creating a script and again couldn't find any problems loading an audio file, creating a script using TTS or loading one of the sample audio files.
Although I tend to use my main computer to run CrazyTalk 8 most of the time, I do use the Surface when I'm travelling and don't find any problems apart from the small icon and font size due to the high resolution screen used on the Surface.
Peter
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