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Noel Carboni
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Issues with Lighting Effects

Jul 23, 2012 7:54 PM

Filter - Render - Lighting Effects seems to be somewhat less than perfectly functional for me.

 

Unlike another recent poster, I'm seeing the controls okay, but they don't actually seem to work properly.  Worse, I can reliably produce a crash.

 

I have an ATI Radeon HD 5670 and Catalyst 12.6 (latest released) drivers for Windows 7 x64, Advanced mode GPU operation.  My detailed system info can be found here:  Link

 

Chances are this is a display driver issue, but I want Adobe to know about it.

 

Here's what I see...

 

For testing I create a middle-gray square document, 8 bits/channel, sRGB, then start the Lighting Effects filter on it:

 

ScreenGrab_07_23_2012_222928.png

 

 

If I toggle the preview setting off and on a number of times, this happens:

 

ScreenGrab_07_23_2012_223058.png

 

 

This is reproducible, though it sometimes takes more or less Preview toogles.  Here is the pertinent information from several such Photoshop crashes:

 

ScreenGrab_07_23_2012_224544.jpg

 

ScreenGrab_07_23_2012_224552.jpg

 

ScreenGrab_07_23_2012_224558.jpg

 

Next I am going to try Normal and Basic mode to see if they make any difference with this problem.  I'll follow up here.

 

-Noel

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  • Noel Carboni
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    1. Noel Carboni,
    Jul 23, 2012 8:04 PM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    I think I misstated the problem above...  The controls do seem to work okay.  The crash is the only issue.  I just need to toggle Preview on and off multiple times.

     

    It seems to fail equally easily in Normal and Basic modes too.

     

    -Noel

     
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    Jul 24, 2012 1:21 AM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    Hi Noel,

     

    Thanks for reporting this here. I'll see if I can reproduce with my 5870 card first, and then try a 5670 if needed. Do you have anything else set in the Catalyst Control panels or is it a default install?

     

    regards,

    steve

     
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    Jul 24, 2012 8:50 AM   in reply to SG...
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    I have my own calibration loading via Catalyst Control Center at startup via a preset, but other than that it's all defaults.  I have a dual monitor system (two 1600 x 1200 pixel displays).  I can capture the other screens in CCC as you'd like.

     

    CCC12_6.jpg

     

    Let me know if there's anything more I can supply for you, and if you want me to try anything (including debugging with Visual Studio) I am equipped to do it.

     

    One other thing I've noticed with several recent Catalyst versions (12.2, 12.4, 12.6) is that the OpenCL setting in Photoshop CS6 alternately becomes unavailable or available (and checked).  I haven't detected a pattern, though the various accelerated tools (e.g. Blurs) always seem to work and are fast.  I created a thread on that a while back, but got no resolution.  Since that thread I've seen the same behavior with 12.6.

     

    -Noel

     
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    Jul 24, 2012 9:01 AM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    Noel, followed your example and no crashes on my system (Intel 4000 card with latest production drivers) but horribly slow, probably the slowest filter I have ever tried - Basically unusable.....

     

    Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x64
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    Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
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    Physical processor count: 4
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    Processor speed: 3392 MHz
    Built-in memory: 16272 MB
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    Memory available to Photoshop: 14657 MB
    Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
    Image tile size: 128K
    Image cache levels: 4
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
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    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
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    Display: 1
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    Video Card Number: 1
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    OpenCL Version:
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    Driver Date: 20120319000000.000000-000
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    Video Card Memory: 2112 MB
    Video Rect Texture Size: 8192
    Serial number: 91198812271284256640
    Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
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       Adaptive Wide Angle 13.0
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       Crystallize 13.0
       Cutout 13.0
       Dark Strokes 13.0
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    Optional and third party plug-ins:

       Camera Raw 7.1
       HDR Efex Pro 1,203
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    Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
    Flash:
       Mini Bridge
       Kuler
    Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

     
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    Thanks for adding that info, Mike.  It adds a bit of additional evidence that the crash problem is likely rooted in the ATI driver.

     

    It sounds as though you're not getting any GPU acceleration with the Intel driver.

     

    I find the filter operates fluidly in real time, and when I want to use it for actual results I'll just have to remember for now to avoid toggling the [ ] Preview checkbox.  It seems to deliver its results back to the image okay if I do that.

     

    At first I had thought it was malfunctioning, as the angle of the light didn't change, but then I realized I was changing Infinite Light 1 instead of Spotlight 2.

     

    -Noel

     
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    Jul 24, 2012 9:24 AM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    This is the only feature that is sluggish on my system - and I am sure GPU is working so maybe a bug in the GPU acceleration with this filter

     

    Mike

     
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    Steve, FYI, I just reproduced the problem on a Windows 8 system running in a VM with a completely different display driver...  All I had to do was toggle the Preview checkbox about 9 times.

     

    Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 13.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f61c045

    Faulting module name: MSVCR100.dll, version: 10.0.40219.1, time stamp: 0x4d5f034a

    Exception code: 0xc0000005

    Fault offset: 0x000000000003c1b0

    Faulting process id: 0xe70

    Faulting application start time: 0x01cd69b8b734b561

    Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe

    Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\MSVCR100.dll

    Report Id: 2c939db1-d5ac-11e1-9bb1-000c29dfe0ac

    Faulting package full name:

    Faulting package-relative application ID:

     

     

     

    -Noel

     
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    I have Windows 7, 16 gigs ram, and updated drivers, CS6, and when I use the lighting effects it crashes Photoshop.   Same problem as everyone else here.   what can I do?   It seems that no one has a solution!

     
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    While I am not experiencing a crash when using the filter it is woefully slow to initialize (see my post above). But crashes reliably toggling the preview on and off.

     

    Faulting module is msvcr100.dll

     

     

    Here is the capture from the Win7 (x64) Action Center

     

    Crash.JPG

     

    Would be good to get an update on where this issue is as it's been out there a while

     

    Mike

     

     

     
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    Was this ever resolved?  I'm having the same issue with CS6 crashing after toggling Preview on/off several times while working with Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and I can reliably cause the failure.  I'm on Windows 7 64-bit, PS CS6 realease 13.0.1 x64, using Gigabyte HD7970 with Intel i7-3770 with 32GB RAM (Vingeance).  Performance is excellent on almost all advanced functions in CS6, and this is the only hard failure issue I've experienced.  If I avoid the Preview button at top of screen, I am able to create the effect & save results, and I have found that I can toggle the eyeball on/off on a Smart Object Layer containing the Lighting Effects and that does NOT cause a failure so far...

     
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