Only see partial brush tip in CS4

I have the brush tip setting set to Normal.  In CS3 I get a circle representing the brush tip regardless of the brush size.  In CS4, I only get a full circle for very small brush sizes.  Anything bigger and I only get a small upper left segment of the circle.  Is this normal?  It makes it very hard to tell where the lower right of the brush is.  If not normal what suggestions do you have for correcting this?
Thanks
Mike

Thanks very much for the reply.  While your suggestion didn't work, it pointed me in the right direction in mentioning the video driver.  Aftrer updating to CS4 11.0.1 and updating the video driver didn't work, I fiddled around with the video card settings and discovered that dropping the hardware accelleration setting down one notch (from max) restored the brush tip to a full circle at all sizes.

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