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Wacom tablet driver not loading7/25/2023 I'd have stuck with CS3 and my old machine. I wish I'd known this before I'd updated my product. As it stands, I just spent $2.6k to update my software from CS3 to CS6, only to see my pen tabelt reduced to a glorified mouse. One would surmise that if one is to pay $2,600 for a high-end piece of software, then that piece of software should be readily and joyously compatible with the most popular brand of associated periphreal tools (id est, Wacom tablets). This all seems pretty antithetical to any notion of customer satisfaction, especially as Wacom and Adobe dominate each of their respective markets, and as such, should make it a cooperative mandate on both of their parts to ensure their products work smoothly in concert. Even further still, this horrible trend seems to be indipendant of operating system, as I've seen Mac OS and Windows users alike become maddeningly frustrated over this (especially with Cintiqs, it seems). Further, it seems that every time there is a fix that is found, the next version of Adobe's updates or the next iteration of Creative Suite undoes the fixes. Some additional things that my searches in other forums revealed, is that this seems to be a universal problem with all Wacom products (Itnuos, Bamboo, Cintiq) and all versions of Adobe Creative Suite since CS3. Basically, since last night's update, I have this wonderful suite of software that has a whole mess of features that are specifically designed to take advantage of the specific pen tablet technology that Wacom supplies, that suddenly became disabled after the latest Adobe updates. That didn't work, so after searching over many forums, I tried the following:ġ) Completely uninstall the most current Wacom drivers, restart, reinstall, plug in (as per the advice on Wacom's forums).Ģ) Repeat first solution after disabling Windows TebletPC Service.ģ) Play with specific settings in the brush sub-menus in the vain hope that somehow PS would "wake up" to my Wacom tablet.Ĥ) Repeatedly uninstall, restart, and reinstall *older* versions of the Wacom drivers.Īnd you know what? Pen pressure doesn't work with Flash, either. I thought for sure that it was something that restarting my PC would fix. Upon coming back to my computer and reopening the PS file I was working on, I discovered that pressure, tilt, etc. So, I decided to take a break from my work, and let it update. Then, last night at about 1am, Adobe asked to install a bunch of updates on to the entire CS6 line. For a while after my fresh intallation of Adobe CS6, pen pressure, tilt, and all of those other wonderful brush effects were working just fine in Photoshop (with the latest Wacom driver from March 18, 2013). Other than that, I have the full Adobe Creative Suite 6, running in Windows 7 64-bit, on a really damned nice machine that's barely a month old (brand new i7 processor, wonderful high-end ASUS motherboard, full compliment of RAM, etc.). Like them, I have an Inuos3 Wacom pen tablet. I'm having pretty much the same problems as LucieG45 and Thunderpot, and the pattern of when it started is pretty annoying by its implications. In my various professional guises, I've also used it for graphic design, book layouts, full production animation, video editing, web design, and a many other things. I've used Adobe suite for more than just PS, though. I've used it on Macs and Windows machines. I've also tried installing different drivers, the latest one first, when that didn't work I tried older ones to see if it would make a difference to no avail.Īny help would be greatly appreciated! I'm starting to feel a little desperate.įirst of all, I want to throw it out there that I'm a long time illustration and production art professional who has been using Photoshop since version 1. The only way I can get it to work is with the process I mentionned (uninstalling driver, unplugging tablet, rebooting etc.) but I'd need to do this every time I shut down my computer and that's a bit of a pain. I get this little warning in my brush settings when I try to put it on Pen Pressure or tilt or other setting that requires pressure sensitivity, but it doesn't tell me how to fix it. When I turned it back on and went in photoshop this morning it didn't work anymore, pressure sensitivity was gone again. I've done this last night and it worked, I was thrilled but it was late, was exhausted, so I turned off my computer and went to bed. Roughly, it said to uninstall my wacom driver, unplug the tablet, reboot, install driver, plug in the tablet and reset my preferences in photoshop. I did a search on google to see if others had had the same problem, on a forum (I can't remember where) I found a solution that seems to have worked for many so I tried that. I have no idea why, but the pressure sensitivity of my tablet won't work anymore. I have a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet, photoshop CS6 and Windows 7.
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