Photoshop CS4 Brush Draws Circles

Hi. This wasn't happening but now, all of my brushes draws circles like that. Is it supposed to happen? If answer is no, how can I solve it? Thanks.

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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