Aperture messing up images with 30 inch external display.

I have a macbook pro with 128MB video ram and 4GB ram. I just purchased a 30 inch display which I am using externally and have noticed that aperture now regularly locks up and screws up images and the display. Picture here
I have aperture using the full screen and then when I start something like cropping, as I move the box around it starts to mess up the picture as per the attached image. If I then go to other pictures and come back to it, it will still be in the same state. Fortunately, if I quit the program and restart aperture, the image will be ok.
If I shrink the window back down it would appear to behave normally. I have also restored aperture to before one particularly bad lock up that brought my whole system down.
Has anyone else experienced this behaviour?

I have not experienced this exact issue but I have had issues with graphics cards/drivers and the 30" displays in the past. The cure has always been an apple update for the cases that I have experienced. That being said 128 M is a relatively small amount of VRAM for Aperture + 30" Cinema. I would expect performance issues for sure and it maybe contributing to what you are seeing.
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