Thursday, July 17, 2008

Don't use Wacom Driver 6.08-2

The pen would sometimes fail to detect and stop working for a second until it refreshes and starts working again. While this doesn't seem like a big deal, it craps out your workflow especially when you're already in the zone and in the middle of painting or cross-hatching.
Another thing, is that the pen would stop detecting pressure sensitivity if you go from one app to another, say, when you click on a browser and go back to photoshop. You have to lift the pen out of range from the tablet and put it back in range. Sometimes it only affects when you go between applications that are defined and not defined in the pen custom settings.

Also, I couldn't seem to revert to an older version without uninstalling the new one first… which would mean that I would lose my settings. Grrr. :S Why couldn't they make wacom settings saveable elsewhere as a file and so you can just load them and share them with people.

Of course, this applies specifically to Wacom intuos 3 driver. But I expect the entire wacom tablet series that uses this driver is affected.


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