Hey all,
I don’t come around here as often as I should, but I always know where to go when I have a question. This time, my question is as follows:
I recently tried to set up an old Wacom Graphire tablet on a Windows 7 machine. It set up just fine, drivers seemed to work, but Windows rudely co-opted the tablet’s functionality and made it impossible to use. It was doing things like right-clicking if I held the pen down for too long, and preventing me from making quick tiny strokes (as one might do to draw stars, for example). I tried various instructions online about disabling the tablet-related “features” but none of them restored the tablet to its normal XP functionality.
So, I turn to all of you. Are you using a Wacom tablet with Windows 7 or 8? Is it working like it’s supposed to? If so, what did you have to do to make it work?
Hi, I use à quite old wacom tablet without any problems. I will check monday the driver and stuff for you ok? If i forget, give me à headsup! I forget à lot :-).
I just fixed mine an a different laptop last night, different symptoms then you however. Mine wouldn’t recognize the pen but would recognize my finger. Anyways, fix for me was to go to Wacom’s site and download/install the latest driver. Works fine now.
i’m using an old volito wacom tablet on windows 7. i simply down loaded a recent driver from wacoms driver page. you just need to go through the driver list and find the one that has support for your model. the driver i have is mainly a bamboo driver but it supports the volito tablet and my tablet works perfectly.
I have a Bamboo Pen and I’ve had issues with it not tracking properly in Gimp on XP. I like to use it in mouse mode and the only solution I could find is to use it in pen or absolute mode. It works as expected in Ubuntu though. I had it working on another XP machine. Sometimes I wonder if issues arise with different combinations of hardware and peripherals.
As soon as you plug the wacom with the driver to Win7, windows 7 thinks you got a touchdevice, thus changing it’s input method to touch by default.
This means, holding leftclick is a rightclick, like you would do with your index finger.
You have the Pen&Touch options in the Control Panel, which are useless to configure this. Don’t listen to those online tutorials.
You have to open Control Panel->Programs and Features.
There you click “Turn Windows features on or off” at the left.
You’ll see “Tablet PC Components” checked there, deselect it and confirm. It will uninstall the tablet PC support and after a reboot you’ll not have a changing cursor anymore as soon as you activate the pen touching the tablet, and you’ll also be able to hold the pressure without opening any contexts.
That said, you’re a moderator, this should be in technical support, please report yourself hehe
It’s not really a Blender related issue though… well.
Another thing you might encounter is that sometimes during boot you get a “wacom driver not initialized”
Start a console window (<Win+R> enter “cmd” and press enter)
Type NET START “TabletServiceWacom” and obviously press enter.
That starts the tablet driver service and it works right away again.