Line appears when applying drop shadow on large scale

Hello!
Some weeks ago I had to make a large scale graphic (800mmx2000mm) for a roll-up banner. I wanted to apply a drop shadow to a rounded shape, and ugly lines came up. Since it was a bit urgent, I decided not to use it.
But now I'm curious, so I quickly made an ellipse and added a shadow, so you know what I mean. This also happens when I save it as pdf or image.
Perhaps someday I will have to use a drop shadow on large scale. So, does anybody knows how to fix this or what could I do in case I need to use this effect in these conditions? I use Illustrator CS6 in Mac with Mavericks.
Thanks in advance.

Mike Gondek wrote:
I was able to create an ellipse to your dimension and got a good drop shadow. What happens if you manually make a drop shadow using appearance?
FYI I tried making the same using drop shadow filter in CS5 and got this error.
Incase your file was created in CS5 and opened in 6, I would recreate the drop shadow in CS6. I know they redid the gaussian blur in CS6, but not sure if that affected drop shadow.
CS6 is better on raster effects at large sizes.
My file was created and opened in CS6.
My ellipse is around 175cmx50cm. I tried it manually like you said and got the same results:
So, I guess I'm alone with such a problem. No idea what is wrong :/

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