Brush cursor vs painted area size

Hi.
Does anyone know how to deal with the following issue I’ve encountered in PS CC? It’s probably a simple setting adjustment, but I’ve been unable to reference it in the Photoshop Guide or elsewhere.
When using a large square custom brush the cursor preview projects about 10% larger than the actual area that it paints on the canvas. I think I've tried ever combination of the cursor settings in Preferences, and all the options in the brush menu’s to no avail.
I jumped from an earlier version of PS to the CC version, in the earlier software, as default, one simply placed the Full Scale cursor image over the canvas and the result was precisely the same when painted.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Look under System>Preferences>Accessibility>Display and see if the Cursor Size is set to something other than Normal
(you want the Cursor Size set to Normal)

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