Video card compatability - Aperture on Mavericks

Since upgrading to Mavericks most full-res images in Aperture look corrupted (like this):
The thumbnails look fine and the preview (before the full-res image loads) look fine. The images are OK in the Finder and in iPhoto.
The problem appears to be the video card. I have an ATI Radeon HD 5770 and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. With either one removed the images display perfectly in Aperture.
Specs are:
MacPro 3.33
OSX 10.9.2
Aperture 3.5
Question is what to do - anybody know of a video card combination that definately works in Aperture on Mavericks?

What OS did you upgrade from and this exact configuration worked OK before the upgrade?
If so best I can offer is to look at the NVIDIA site and see i there is anything concerning Mac Pros and that card and mavericks. Maybe there might be an updated driver for it.
regards
Also you should post in the Mac Pro community, maybe someone there has an idea
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