CS6 Beta & Lighting Effects

I seem to be missing the Lighting Effects in the CS6 beta (32bit). It doesn't appear in the menu in Filter/Render. File is 8bit and I'm running XP with SP3. Anybody verify they show it? Thanks.

It appears Lighting Effects may not be supported because of XP.

From Adobe -
* 3D features and some GPU-enabled features are not supported on Windows XP.

GPU features added in Photoshop CS6

1. • Adaptive Wide Angle Filter (compatible video card required)
   
2. • Liquify (accelerated by compatible video card with 512MB VRAM)
   
3. • Oil Paint (compatible video card required)
   
4. • Warp and Puppet Warp (accelerated by compatible video card)
   
5. • Field Blur, Iris Blur, and Tilt/Shift (accelerated by compatible video
   card supporting OpenCL)
   
6. • Lighting Effects Gallery (compatible video card required with 512MB
   VRAM)
   
7. • New 3D enhancements (3D features in Photoshop require a compatible video card with 512MB VRAM):

• Draggable Shadows
  
• Ground plane reflections
  
• Roughness
  
• On-canvas UI controls
  
• Ground plane

• IBL (image based light) controller

I thought XP wasn't even supported? I know it isn't for LR4…

René Damkot wrote in post #14150722
I thought XP wasn't even supported? I know it isn't for LR4…

Yeah, I was surprised as well given LR4 didn't. 3D and some GPU stuff won't work under XP according to Adobe. It does appear that Lighting Effects have changed in CS6 and use GPU.

But ACR7 does work properly with XP?

tonylong wrote in post #14150764
But ACR7 does work properly with XP?

Yes. The defaults seem to be a little dark and I need to figure out the slider changes.

D Thompson wrote in post #14150781
Yes. The defaults seem to be a little dark and I need to figure out the slider changes.

Ah, well, I'd imagine that would just be a difference between the 2010 Process and the 2012 Process, rather than something to do with XP, but I don't know...

Anyhow, interesting that ACR supports XP but LR4 doesn't...?

tonylong wrote in post #14150809
Ah, well, I'd imagine that would just be a difference between the 2010 Process and the 2012 Process, rather than something to do with XP, but I don't know...

Anyhow, interesting that ACR supports XP but LR4 doesn't...?

Yeah, I say it's the Process and I just need to tweak the defaults.

I was really surprised to see CS6 supporting XP. They did disable a few things in XP though. I probably need to upgrade my pc anyway. There were a few little things that I can't use in CS5 because of my video card. It seems to always be something that needs upgrading!

Yeah, I know what you mean! My workstation is quad-core and it had 4 GB of RAM and ran XP with LR3 and CS3, it wasn't the fastest but still got by until it totally crashed. As it turned out it wasn't hardware problems but it could have been a virus or whatever -- I dropped it off with a good and helpful local guy who did a mess of troubleshooting/diagno​stics, but in the end determined that it "just" needed the OS re-installed. I could have done that myself but ended up paying them for a Win7 64 install and disk plus another 4GB of RAM since I knew it would help and it would run LR4 for me!