Displacement mapping - Info for Adobe

This is not asking for help but just something I want to pass on to Adobe. When using Photoshop CC 2014 and Photoshop CC and saving a .psd file of high contrast to be used as a displacement file, I could not get it to work. After a lot of effort I found that if the Maximum compatibility box was not checked ( I had it turned off), the file would not displace the layer. I was using Halftone stripes on a layer and it was converted to a smart object. Turning on this compatibility made it work. It should work either way. I think this is a bug but most people would have it turned on by default and not notice. However, that makes a larger file size.
Thanks for reading,
Ron

You can also just save a flattened copy of the psd without Maximum compatibility on.
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Date: 2008-12-10 18:29:26 -0800 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008)
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