Lighting effects not working insufficient RAM

[David5FE8]

Lighting effects only partly loads, as experienced by many others I get a spotlight but no handles and inefective sliders. From time to time i get an error message telling me to select my graphics card in 'Performance' also another message stating that I do not have sufficient RAM to run the app.

There is usually about 12GB of RAM available to Photoshop but I still see the error 'not enough RAM'

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop (latest version) and I have updated the Graphics driver to version 471.11 release date 21.06.21

Everything else works faultlessly.

I have attached screenshots of the messages and the image with lighting effects partly open, also the system information report. 

Any help is apreciated.

[David5FE8]

Lighting effects only partly loads, as experienced by many others I get a spotlight but no handles and inefective sliders. From time to time i get an error message telling me to select my graphics card in 'Performance' also another message stating that I do not have sufficient RAM to run the app.

There is usually about 12GB of RAM available to Photoshop but I still see the error 'not enough RAM'

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop (latest version) and I have updated the Graphics driver to version 471.11 release date 21.06.21

Everything else works faultlessly.

I have attached screenshots of the messages and the image with lighting effects partly open, also the system information report. 

Any help is apreciated.

[mglush · Accepted solution]

Hi! The Lighting Effects filter is very RAM intensive. Do you have any more RAM that you can allocate to Photoshop? Also, do you have a Scratch Disk connected and available for Photoshop to use?

Michelle

[David5FE8]

Hi Michelle, thank's for your advice. I increased available memory in 'Performance' tab and deactivated native canvas in 'Technical' 

Now 'lighting effects' is working,however I am new to this feature so cannot say how well yet.

Thank again.

Dave

[mglush]

Great to hear that you are back up and running!

[happie_97]

I agree with mglush, lighting effects are memory hogs. You need to allocate more space to ram. Here is a link showing how to do this.

[David5FE8]

Hi happie_97, thank's also for your advice. As you will se in my reply to Michelle, I am making progress, now I am going through all the options in the 'Optimise Photoshop Performance' page you directed me to.

I believe that the advice I have received from you both has resolved my problem, thank you so much.

Dave.

[happie_97]

That is so great to hear! Thanks for the feedback. :c)