Focus Area Select Not Working

Hi. Updated my work PC to Photoshop CC 2014. Select/Focus Area is shown in drop down menu. I can open the Focus Area panel, but it does nothing to the image regardless of what setting I select in the sliders.
When I place the cursor over the image with this panel open, I get a circle with a slash through it, seemingly to indicate that this function is not available on this image. Image opened is DNG format from Lightroom CC.
I updated my graphics driver and checked that PS is using the GPU in the Preferences panel. The 'Use Graphics processor' is ticked.
System is a PC running Windows 7 professional. Core i5-2310 CPU 4cores. 4GB RAM (total).
I know the RAM size is small and I will be getting another 8GB or so soon. Can this be the cause of the problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Steve

You're welcome, and I agree, it should at least warn you if it comes up short of RAM.
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