Why is render greyed out in photoshop

Thread starter Blindbegger Start date Apr 24, Blindbegger Always on Premium Member. Yes recommended. I have photoshop cc when I tried to use lighting effects under filter menu-render-lighting effects it is greyed out. I looked at edit-pref-performance and checked box use graphics processor and error message said unsupported graphics card. In device manager under display adaptors my graphics card only displays Intel R hd graphics family.

This on a laptop only a couple of years old its seems plenty powerful with core i7 processor and 6Mb of Ram I am a bit peeved as lighting effects used to work on my old version of photoshop cl2. If i click on advanced graphics processor settings tab the use OpenCL and use graphics processor to accelerate computation it is greyed out,also the drawing mode is greyed out.

Help please! Should I be thinking about getting a desktop with a better graphics card to use these more advanced effects I was toying with the idea. No, I didn't delete them, but A few other setting were changed as well and after I rechecked them, everything is now back to normal. Thanks for the help! Related Conversations. Helpful Widget No Yes. How can we improve? Send Feedback. Adobe Photoshop Family. Photoshop: Lighting Effects greyed out Lighting Effects in Photoshop CC - greyed out This seems to discussed but lots of confusion or no direct answer how to resolve.

My PC is running windows 8. Can you use any of the other 3D features? And have you updated your video card driver from the GPU maker's website? After reading your instructions I went out and updated grahic cards. I then copied what my system info is but before pasting or snding to you I wnated to make sure information is safe to post here or tell me what you are looking for more specifically and I can repsond. Yes, the system info is safe to post. All I'm looking for is the information about your video card and driver, to see why it isn't allowing the 3D features to work.

Below is the system Info: I appreciate any help Note: I found under the Edit tab-Preferences-Performance tab an area to add graphic Processor - so I checked it and it worked - The Lighting effects showed up in the Render option.

But - Don't get excited - becaue when I lanched the following time it was not there and I got some type of error - sorry was unbale to see error but it was from Adobe and dealt with graphic card.

System Info: Adobe Photoshop Version: Windows 2x UI: Disabled. Highbeam: Enabled. That means that there is a bug in your video card driver. Try updating it from Intel's website unless you're on a surface pro 3 - then you need to update from Microsoft.

Touch Bar Property Feedback: Enabled. All rights reserved. It looks like the OpenCL driver is crashing. Did this happen prior to updating to macOS Doesn't work for me. I've played with every setting on that. Related Conversations. Helpful Widget No Yes.