Brush cursor cropped or invisible at large sizes

I have a really annoying problem when trying to use brushes. It existed in CS3 and is still there in CS4.
Whenever I make the brush diameter somewhat large, for instance above 100px, it begins to crop the brush outline so it only shows a small portion of it. If I make it large enough, ~500px, there's nothing left. Even if I have show crosshair enabled, the crosshair is cropped away.
What's the deal?

Okay, I got it fixed for the most part. I noticed that after I installed the driver update, I was no longer having the issue on my secondary monitor, while I was still having the problem on the primary monitor. I checked the Properties and confirmed that the primary and secondary were indeed the primary and secondary, so I just went to the NVIDIA control panel and went through the setup process again, making sure the correct monitor was specified as primary, and now it seems to work on the primary at least. Thanks for the help!
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