Lighting Effects All Black

Using Mac Photoshop CS6
Drawing Mode: Normal; "Use Graphics Processor to Accelerate Computation" and "Use OpenCL" are both checked.
Filter > Lighting Effects = all I get is black. The element I'm trying to add lighting to is completely black. What's more, the circular controls are gone. Point, Spot and Infinite are the same.
Used to work fine. Didn't change anything.
Thanks.

Lighting Effects is dependent on your GPU and display driver.
You might have gotten a driver update through Windows Update that changed the behavior of your system. But you haven't described your computer, so that's speculation - you may not even have Windows. If you DO have Windows, you may be able to get an even newer/better display driver directly from the web site of the maker of your video card.
It's also possible that if you go into your Preferences - Performance dialog, press the [Advanced Settings...] button, and change to one of the other drawing modes you might be able to recover the functionality. Make SURE to close and restart Photoshop after making changes there.
-Noel

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That usually means a problem with a video card driver. Have you updated your video card driver from the GPU maker's website?

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Hi,
I have been faced with an almost identical problem listed here - http://forums.adobe.com/message/5486667#5486667
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I've done all software and hardware updates, reinstalled the graphics card driver, and restarted a multitude of times.
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Check to see if there are any updated drivers for your card. http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
The standard advice is to get the latest driver from the Graphics card maker rather than Microsoft or your PC maker.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/vljj8nvrvqvjruv/Screen%20Shot%202014-03-26%20at%203.31.05%20PM.p ng
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