CS4 brush cursor faulty

I recently installed Photoshop CS4 and find the brush cursor faulty. Only a portion of the cursor shows up. With a small brush most of the cursor shows. With a large brush only a small segment in the upper left shows. Anybody else have this problem? Anybody have a solution?

Just a tip Ron. That fault has been reported in several threads, all recent. So it always pays to scan other messages or try a forum search first. You may get your answer quicker and it will certainly put your situation in better perspective.

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Does anyone know any workround? I've tested somo older forceware drivers (178.24) with partial success. The display bug in Photoshop is fixed, but e.g. After Effects CS4 crashes while detecting the GPU.
Message Edited by mikey on 10-23-2008 03:20 AM

Today I've installed the latest Forceware Drivers 180.60 from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ to test the bug behaviour.
The brush cursor now seems to be able to handle big brush sizes but the performance is reduced noticable.When painting inside a new document the rendering of the brush path is done after painting over the area, even when using small brush sizes.
So let's wait until Nvidia/Lenovo roll out a new driver.
Message Edited by mikey on 11-24-2008 07:57 AM

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Has anyone came across this problem? When the diameter of my brush (and doesn`t matter if it is regular brush or clone brush) goes over 80 px, the cursor is no longer a circle, but it starts to "cut off" - and the more I increase the diameter, the less of the cursour I can see. In the end, over 500 px diameter, I can't see the cursor at all anymore. I find it very annoying, so any idea what to do about it?
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Since you already have updated to 11.0.1 that only leaves your video card or its drivers as likely candidates for causing the fault.
Is the card on the tested list? Does it support OpenGL to the extent needed by Photoshop? Have you updated the drivers?

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I read that it's caused by the old drivers for the video card. I'm using GeForce 8800GT and I updated the driver with the latest version form the nVidia web site. The problem is still here!
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I'm seeing a bit of a pattern of multiple people reporting problems with nVidia 8800 cards. I'm thinking nVidia isn't testing new drivers against this particular model very intensively. See my comments on video cards and drivers in this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/682582
-Noel

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Hi, Good Day.
There are things that I want to say about using CS4.
1.   Pen tool.
In Photoshop 5.0, I found that it is faster to <stroke path> compared to the newer version of PS. In PS 5.0, I never need to exit pen tool mode whenever I wanted to select the brush sizes. The Brush size Selection 'tray' tab is always available even when I’ve exit the brush mode. Thus make the stroke works become faster, simpler and easier.
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So, can Adobe do something about the Brush Selection tab so it always availed like other tabs, like PS5.0 do? Which like swatches tab, color tab, etc.. So it wouldn’t go off next time when we exit the brush mode; thus saves time.
2.   Rounded rectangle.
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Can someone tell me know how to lock the shape?
It’s like what in Microsoft Word do. The rounded rectangle lines can be locked so I can adjust the edges to be rounder and rounder, whether partly or simultaneously.
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Hi Bion_s,
In the course of playing around in Illustrator to find a solution, I found that if you open your appearance panel (Window > Appearance), select the fly-out menu and deselect New Art has Basic Appearance.
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As already mentioned a few dozen times: update your video card driver. This was a known problem with drivers that has already been fixed for most card/OS combinations.

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Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
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Processor speed: 3400 MHz
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Memory used by Photoshop: 71 %
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 6
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OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: False.
OpenGL Crash File: Not Detected.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 2
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1920
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 1920, bottom: 1080, right: 3840
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Driver Version: 9.18.13.1106
Driver Date: 20130118000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
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Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
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Driver Date: 20130118000000.000000-000
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D:\, 465.8G, 221.8G free
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