Lighting effects ellipse not shown in CS6

MI am using CS6 Extended on an HP dv7 Pavillion running Windows 7 Ultimate. It is a 64bit system with 6GB of RAM. Display is NVIDIA GeForce GT230M.
I am trying to uses the Filter>Render>Lighting Effects feature. I can get to the option toolbar and properties panel (which also results in workspace changing from Essential (or whatever) to the Lighting Effects workspace. What doesn't happend is that the ellipse doesn't show up that allows control of the lighting (e.g. no ellipse, no handles, nothing to see to make adjustments). I've seen this issue come up in some other threads but it doesn't appear to have been solved as recently as 9/24/2013. The other thing that happens is that I get stuck at that point, i.e., I can't change workspace, can't delete history, etc. The only way out is to close the file, which then asks if I want to apply effects which I say no to since I didn't specify any, then cancel the close.
I've adjusted the Edit>Preferences>Performance settings so that the Cache is now 6 instead of 4.
I'm taking a class and need to use this feature as part of an assignment. Any help would be appreciated.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/979969?tstart=0 I'm afraid that this videocard is not powerful enough to drive the new 3D-based Lighting effects:

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Noel Carboni wrote:
Doesn't a Mac have a definitive way to check to see whether an application is running in 64 bit mode or 32? Some kind of process manager or something? 22 posts have gone by and the original poster doesn't yet seem convinced that it is actually running in 64 bit mode.
I don't know why there has been doubt since post #12 where I explained that Ps must be running in 64-bit mode when more than 2100 MB RAM is reported in Preferences.
Anyway, here's a screenshot of Activity Monitor showing CS6 in 64-bit mode and CS5.1 in 32-bit mode.

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Not enough RAM? Really? I am running HP laptop....Intel I7 2nd generation / 8GB Ram / 750GB HD / 1 GB VRAM. Even small files are not working.
Please advise

I am using Adobe Creative Cloud...so updates come regularly. I have used this filter before, Now when it is launched it just gives me this error:
     "could not complete the lighting effects command becasue there is not enough memory (RAM).
I have checked preferences. Video Card has been enabled for 3D and I am using 6.85GB allocation for photoshop. Have bumped it to 98%. I have checked efficiency at bottom, never drops below 100%.
Heres the stats on the help / system info:
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Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
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Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2195 MHz
Built-in memory: 8140 MB
Free memory: 5142 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 7169 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 90 %
Image tile size: 1028K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
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Video Rect Texture Size: 8192
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Video Card Renderer: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Display: 1
Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=900, right=1600
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I've seen a similar question asked many times here but nothing seems to be working.
When I go to filter -> render -> lighting effects it seems to pop up some kind of options pane for maybe a quarter second while it's thinking, but once it's done all it does is create a duplicate layer called "lighting effects". I never actually see the options.
I've updated my drivers, and I just installed cs6 today, without importing any of my old settings from before.
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Lighting effects gallery
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I'm having the same issue as well. Just started using CC tonight on both my home and work Macs. My home computer is a late 2006 MacPro, 6GB RAM, 2.66ghz and the work computer is 2013 MacPro with way more guts in it. Photoshop at home runs terribly slow all together but I did manage to see some slight improvement when I switched off "Use Graphics Processor" in the Preferences panel (Prefs > Performance) but this also turns off the Lighting effects filter. I remote logged in to my work Mac and using the same file (saved in the cloud), applied the lighting filter and it worked perfectly. All that to say, I'm pretty certain is a graphics processor/memory issue more than it being a CC issue. At home, the filter attempts to work, stops, and the only thing left is the properties panel like the effect is active.
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I did make some suggestions, which you appear to have only dabbled with... Did you try Basic mode? Did you try checking/unchecking all the various settings in all the combinations? Be exhaustive. You feel your system is advanced, I get that, but you're looking to isolate a problem here.
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I never had this issue with CS4... Only CS6
People sometimes like to say that kind of thing, but (and I'm sorry to be blunt): So what?
This is an entirely new program with new, different, and greater demands of your computer system. It's using more and different features of your GPU than any prior version.
I can only assure you that it does work okay for some others. I have had no problems with Lighting Effects myself. But you should know that since Photoshop CS6 first came out I *HAVE* had crashes while trying to do 3D modeling work. At least some of those were caused by the (then current) ATI display drivers. I (and others) contacted ATI and described the problems, and their subsequent driver versions have gotten more stable. Their current version seems to work rather well with Photoshop CS6. My point is that things can get better. Hang in there.
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Lighting Effects renders black, or very dark.

Hi,
I have been faced with an almost identical problem listed here - http://forums.adobe.com/message/5486667#5486667
However, the solution listed has not helped me.
The only thing that changes it from complete blackness is the "Ambience" value.
I've done all software and hardware updates, reinstalled the graphics card driver, and restarted a multitude of times.
I am using:
Dell Optiplex 390
Intel(R) HD Graphics 2000
Windows 7 64 bit
Photoshop CC
No Color Management
No plug-ins, or anything other than default PS settings
If it helps, I used Lighting Effects on Photoshop CS3 and CS6 for almost two years on this machine with no problem. This was the first time I had tried to use it since I upgraded to CC. I uninstalled all other versions of PS when I upgraded, so I have not tried to replicate the problem in older versions.
I have attached screenshots for reference.

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Huge apologies if this has been covered elsewhere or is a simple solution. I just need the answer asap. I am working in Photoshop CS6.
I am putting a light effect over a layer and the lighting effect using the alpha channel.
Everything is fine in the preview stage, however when I go back to the main part of my document the effect appears for a little while then disappears. I save it before it disappears as a JPEG and as a psd to input into indesign but when saved the lighting effect does not show up on either file.
I don't think its crashing or anything. I appologise I'm not 100% sure what the specs of my Mac is, I only just got it. Its the i7 retina display released mid last year with 8GB RAM SSD. I hope the screen shots can help
This is what it looks like without the effect and what it looks like after the effect disppears.
This is what it looks like in preview, and what it should look like when saved.

First screenshot shows the result when "Alpha 1" is targeted before activating the filter. "Alpha 1" is no longer targeted and Channels panel reveals that the filter has not affected the target layer. Only the display image has the result of the filter. When the display is later updated with the real content of the document, the filter effect will vanish.
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Lighting Effects Command?

I am trying to use an action and I keep getting the message: The Command Lighting Effects is not currently available. I am using Photoshop CS5 on a PC. Does anyone have any suggestions about what this might mean?

OK, so maybe I didn't word my question precisely -- I do understand what the words "not available" mean. The issue was that I didn't know why it wasn't available. The second part of your answer seems to have actually given me the info I was looking for -- indeed I am running Photoshop 64-bit. I just saw on the NAPP site that in the new CS6 version this should not be a problem very soon.

Lighting effects ellipse not shown in CS6

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