P: Tool tips do not work

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Just downloaded and initially saw tool tips when I hovered but now no more.   I checked Preferences and it says to show tool tips and Reboot didn't fix.  What happened? 

[Hannah Nicollet]

Hi Gloria,

Thanks for the report. I'll do some checking to see if anyone else is having trouble with this. Would you please go to Help > System Info and then copy and paste the contents of that folder?

Thank you,
Hannah

[Hannah Nicollet]

Also have you tried resetting your preferences? Instructions here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

If you have custom actions, presets, etc. you will probably want to copy them off somewhere beforehand. Here's where they are stored on my Mac (this is in Applications):

[dtristram]

fancy tooltips (with images and animated GIFs do require accelerated graphics being turned on.  Sometimes an intermittent problem can cause Photoshop to turn off the GPU.  Try going to Preferences ==> Performance and ensuring that "Use Graphics Processor" is checked.  Then restart Photoshop one more time if you had to check it.