
You cannot have a Smart Layer.must be flattened.therefore, save your PSD source file first, then flatten the layers for export but don't save the PSD after you create the DDS so you can get your layers back In Photoshop File > New. But also know that you cannot save to DDS unless you 1st flatten all your layers. dds But if I open Photoshop directly, the plugins load so the DDS option can be seen when I click File, Save As. I uninstalled the plugin and then reinstalled and still no option for me to save as. dds like I normally do and it's no longer an option. Secondly make sure your Graphics control panel has the high performance AMD card assigned to Photoshop if your system also has onboard Intel graphics.Photoshop was just updated to v20.0 and I went to save a file a. Here are links for downloading drivers from the most common graphics card manufacturers: Once you know the kind of graphics card you have, visit the manufacturer's website to download the latest driver. You can see the name of your card, as well as how much video memory it has. On the Display tab, information about your graphics card is shown in the Device section. In the Open box, type "dxdiag" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK.Ĥ. Next check for display drivers from the GPU makers website.ģ. Processor: Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU 2.20 GHz, Mhz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical Processorsĭisplay Driver: AMD Radeon HD 6700M Seriesīe sure CS6 is updated: Help > Updates 13.0.1.3 is the latest for Windows.

I had the Motherboard and the display driver replaced two months ago and about a week later I had the optical drive replaced too, but the Photoshop problem didn't arise until just yesterday. The only thing that seems to work is disabling the display driver entirely, so I'm pretty sure the driver is the issue here. I checked for display driver updates but the Photoshop error message still appears and upon trying to do anything in Photoshop it immediately crashes.

My display driver is an AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series which the webpage claims has been tested and supports Photoshop.

"Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled enhancements which use the graphics hardware." Upon first starting up Photoshop CS6, I get the error message that reads the following:
