'Full Screen' view picture breaking up or pixelating? Any suggestions as to why this may be happening?

When switching to 'Full Screen' view I'm finding the picture breaks up and/or pixelates? Any suggestions as to why this may be happening?

Tony,
The images are are all in the range 8-14 mpixels. File sizes are ca. 5MB and ca.12MB for RAW images. I'm not sure whether RAW images are giving this break-up of the Full Screen view or purely JPEGs. I will look into this when the problem recurrs.
I'm certain the problem is not occurring due to zooming, but is apparent with normal, but edited images when I switch to Full Screen. It is an intermittent problem. When it occurrs shutting down A3 and restarting does not seem to resolve the problem, but I believe rebooting my iMac does - at least for a while.
As a relatively new user I'm afraid I don't really follow your Point 2. In A3 Preferences, the Previews are set to "half size". Are the Master Images not just the unedited version of the photo in Split View that I am looking to view in Full Screen?
Certainly, if/when this problem recurrs I will try pressing M in Split View, and then viewing the Master Image in Full Screen to see if the problem disappears. However, I don't really want to view the original image, but the edited image.
Apologies if my responses are rather simplistic, but any further suggestions would be welcome
Alan

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