Wow thanks guys for all of the input. I'm happy to say that I'm not having the issue anymore. I took the original file to my mac at work and finished it (tabloid, 300dpi, 16 bit color, ~150mb). For the next page of the project I tried knocking down the color depth to 8 bit, I set my Gpu settings to normal I believe, and yeah.. no issues so far when I resize brushes.
Knock on wood right.
It must have been the file size I guess. Because the one with 8 bit color depth is around 50 mb and photoshop seems to be snappier. All drivers, programs, and OS are up to date. As I said, I built this computer myself less than a month ago for content creation.
Just for the heck of it, here's what event viewer had to say.
Error:
Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 15.1.0.148, time stamp: 0x53d97a8f
Faulting module name: Photoshop.exe, version: 15.1.0.148, time stamp: 0x53d97a8f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000001a53dd5
Faulting process id: 0x123c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfd383fdee8664
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Photoshop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Photoshop.exe
Report Id: 6bf4d583-3f79-11e4-bebc-10c37b8fb135
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Information:
Fault bucket 85948014352, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: Photoshop.exe
P2: 15.1.0.148
P3: 53d97a8f
P4: Photoshop.exe
P5: 15.1.0.148
P6: 53d97a8f
P7: c0000005
P8: 0000000001a53dd5
P9:
P10:
Attached files:
C:\Users\Dylan Ravenscroft\AppData\Local\Temp\WER1022.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
C:\Users\Dylan Ravenscroft\AppData\Local\Temp\WER28BC.tmp.appcompat.txt
C:\Users\Dylan Ravenscroft\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\AppCrash_Photoshop.exe_5de79f cce95751c2f5cddabf6187cfa7e4be5b45_2ababc97_cab_0ef3304d\triagedump.dmp
WERGenerationLog.txt
These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Dylan Ravenscroft\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_Photoshop.exe_5de7 9fcce95751c2f5cddabf6187cfa7e4be5b45_2ababc97_0ba059ae
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: eb5d6193-3f4f-11e4-bebb-10c37b8fb135
Report Status: 0
Hashed bucket: 48e1f385e33d0d9d303962ad6c94162d