Help plz: Photoshop CS4 Extended & undo feature

It's been weird i used to have PS CS3 Extended with no such problems.. but ever since i upgraded to PS CS4, when i'm working on a file and try to undo, the screen doesn't seem to refresh, meaning that after undoing (even though the history panel reflects the undo) whats supposed to be undone still appears on the screen, but it goes away as soon as you move the cursor on the file and click with the mouse.
in short, when undoing anything you need to click on the image to update or refresh the file.
i have tried enabling and disabling the GPU setting and did all sort of other things to work it out with no luck.
anyone with the same problem?
p.s: i have ps CS4 as part of the master collection CS4 but only installed PS & bridge plus the shared components.

Yes, sounds like a graphics card problem in combination with a bug in PS. Another user also reported this and it seems, that on certain setups using NVidia cards the program does not request a screen refresh. The user in question wrote his own little testing tool, but obviously this does not help you much, so I guess you are stuck with the problem. You could just try to change your graphics card settings and see if one of the combinations makes PS behave better...
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