Brush size in PS CS4 cut off

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Mapie
Jan 26, 2009
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Hi.
When I make the brush size for any tool bigger part of it will disappear. Only the small brush sizes are shown as complete circles.
This happens with all tools that use a brush size. If I make the brush bigger or zoom into the document only a small part of the brush size will be visible. This part of the brush is placed inside a square. The edge of this square cuts the cursor off at the bottom and right.
If I move something with the move tool and it’s a bit fast, the same square size will pop up, dividing the object into squares.

This is very annoying. The first one makes it impossible to work in Photoshop since I can’t use big brushes (with either pencil, brush, erasor): I can not see the cursor when the brush is big or if the document is zoomed in. If the document size is 100% and the brush is big the same thing happens.

Working on a brand new workstation. XP 2002 SP3.
Intel Quad corre Q9550 @2.83 Ghz.
I.98 Ghz 2.98 GB RAM.
Graphics card NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700.
Extra hard drive 1 Tb.

I hope to hear from you.

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Buko
Jan 26, 2009
Do you have full size brush tip checked in the prefs?
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John Joslin
Jan 26, 2009
There are dozens of posts you can read in this forum on this cursor problem.
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Wolf_Eilers
Jan 27, 2009
Here’s the clue: upgrade the video card driver to the latest version.
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Mapie
Jan 27, 2009
Thanks all.

Wolf. I have only recently installed this graphics card. I shall see if there is a new driver available and let you know if this fixes it.

Buko. Yes, of course 😉 Or one variety or another, depending on the needs.

John. Where, please? I logged into this forum late last night after a long day of teaching. I did look for posts about this topic before posting but obviously missed something here!

Thanks for the reactions.
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Mapie
Jan 27, 2009
I have just installed the new driver. It helped. Thank you very much. I suppose you can tell I don’t know much about graphics cards since I took the seller’s advice for granted: "Do I have to install something? There’s this CD in the box…" "No, you don’t have to install anything." Go figure. All happy now 🙂 On to exploring the new options.

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