CS4 Brush tool

The brush tool loses the outline of the tool as the diameter gets larger. e.g. at 175px there is a fill outline of the tool. At 200px only a semi-circle is shown. Is this a bug or a feature or what?
Thanks

For those who haven't found the other discussions: this is a known bug in certain video card drivers. The video card makers are working on driver updates.

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you created a new document in full screen mode use the F key to cycle through the screen modes and everything will be back to normal.

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Yes, I'm updated to 11.0.1
drivers are up to date
monitor is set at full resolution (1600x1200)
mouse drivers are up to date
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Reported in another thread.
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A bit of a longshot, but try disabling the Advanced OpenGL drawing settings. Edit - Preferences - Performance, then press the [Advanced Settings...] button, then UNcheck all the boxes. Make sure you restart Photoshop after changing these.
I mention this because I personally had a troublesome system that was stabilized by doing exactly as I noted above.
If it doesn't help, make sure to remember to set them back to what they were.
If it does help, you can try re-enabling the settings one by one until you isolate the one causing the problem. Me, I just left them all disabled and CS4 started to behave very well. I didn't notice performance degradation,.
-Noel

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1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
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4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
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6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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i just installed a trial version of adobe photoshop cs4 and i can't use the paint brush tool at all - when i try to use it nothing happens
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ok thanks for the response
i dont know if i'm updated to 11.0.1, how do i check that?
i updated my video drivers
i checked the list and it's not compatible - i use a NVIDIA quadro NVS 140M. what do i do about that?
turned off OpenGL, didn't make a difference
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Does the Blend mode menu appear in the Properties inspector?
Now select the Pointer tool, and then re-select the Brush tool.
Does the Blend mode menu appear in the Properties inspector?
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Does the Blend mode menu appear in the Properties inspector?
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Using Fireworks CS5 on Win 7 same results:
1. No
2. No
3. Yes
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http://fireworks.abeall.com

Disturbance and Sharp edges when using brush tool.

Following are the specs:
Photoshop Version     : CS5 Trial, CS4 extended
OS                            : Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits.
RAM                         : 4 GB DDR3 (3 GB Usable)
Video Card                : XFX GeForce GT 240 1GB DDR5
Free Disk Space        : 14 GB Free in C:/ Drive (Primary storage drive for cache levels)
Monitor                     : Samsung Myst Eco 20 inch widescreen LCD.
Well there is no error in my photoshop except when i use the brush tool the brushing looks like its full of dust speckles. Like i am using scatter. When i zoom in it looks weirder. I thought it will be my monitor (i raised a discussion about calibaration of my monitor 3 or 4 months ago when i bought it), but when i export it as .png or .jpeg the image looks perfect i.e. without any scatter. While in Photoshop it looks like i am brushing using some kind of amoeba. I reinstalled cs4 countless times but to no avail. Checked all my brush settings, everything's normal. I downloaded CS5 Trial and checked in it and the photoshop has the same problem. Here are the Print Screen and Exported JPEG's from both CS4 and CS5. And i just wanted to point out that the brush tool works in all other software's so here is Corel Painter PRT SCR too.: What can be causing such weird reactions? I tried enabling/disabling OpenGL rendering, changed cache directories, reduced history/increased history. I messed with everything the performance tab has to offer in preferences, but to no avail. Please Help me, i need to paint lots of thing and with brushes looking like this, it doesnt help at all.
CS5 PRT_SCR
CS5 exported PNG
CS4 PRT_SCR
CS4 exported PNG
Corel Painter PRT_SCR

Wow, I would have bet money that would have made a difference. You might want to add the monitor profile you had back in.
The only other thing I can imagine is that somehow your display is set to an oddball color depth...
Check this:
Right-click on the desktop and choose Screen Resolution.
In the Screen Resolution dialog, click the Advanced Settings link.
In the monitor properties dialog that comes up, in the Adapter tab click the [ List All Modes ] button.
Is the current (highlighted) mode a True Color mode?
Beyond this I can't begin to imagine what could be up with your display.
Do you see the same kind of graininess in other aspects of the Photoshop display - for example gradients rendered with the Gradient tool?
-Noel

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