Brush Overlay Disappears Upon Enlarging

I have CS4 with all updates and XP SP3. My brush overlay circles disapears when trying to increase the size of brush with both the bracket and the brush size slider. I tried to change the cursor shape under Pref's but the result is the same. It still works ok, but is difficult to use when one cannot see the outline. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Phil

You have PS 11.0.1 so that's not it.
Have you tried updating the video card drivers?
What video card do you have?

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This sounds like an old problem, fixed a while ago, by nVidia.
Visit the nVidia web site and download the latest drivers for your video card. Hopefully it's modern enough that they'll have new drivers for it that will solve your problem.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
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