I want to share my experience booting Win81SE directly with ISO or from my USB key with BCD/WIM.
Note: By BCD/WIM method, my BCD entry did have the following options:
DisableIntegrityChecks True
LoadOptionStrings DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
I tested under VMWare, and 2 physical Laptops (Toshiba, Asus).
Following are the results:
1- In BIOS mode, no resolution problem restriction found, by booting with ISO or by BCD/WIM.
2- In UEFI mode with Secure Boot active or inactive:
- Booting with ISO has resolution restriction: 800x600 on Toshiba, 1024x768 on Asus. Control Panel/Display or Multires
cannot change to higher resolution.
- Booting by BCD/WIM has no resolution restriction.