Lighting Effect Won't Render

I'm using Photoshop CS6 and trying to render a simple lighting effect. I successfully rendered the effect in a smaller document (5.5x8.5 in), but the effect doesn't show at all when I drag the layer into a new, larger document (24x78 in). I tried rendering it again fresh on both a vector smart object and a rasterized layer with no luck. I'm not sure if it's the graphics card or a wrong setting or what. Any ideas?
Preview
After I hit OK to accept the lighting effect. NOTHING happens
My graphic card info.

Hi,
Can you post your info from here: Help> System Info...
regards,
steve

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the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
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Kind: Application (Intel)
Size: 564.7 MB on disk (560,095,713 bytes)
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Created: Monday, June 18, 2012 2:04 PM
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