Have you in the installation process gone in and manually uninstalled the driver from the hardware window?

I've used wacom and had to deal with that bull crap for years on XP Vista and Win7.. If you want to talk personally I'm sure we could get it running like a pro. Or end up screaming as our hairs pulled in frustration. But I don't think it'd come to that.

Your thread title tricked me. I thought you were talking about furries.

Really? I thought this was going to be one of those "political banter" journals.

Same here

Me three.

Yeah seems like it fails on vista alot, even when nothing is plugged in.
On my XP system my Cintiq has pretty much been running flawless.

lolz I got a vistablet but my teacher uses wacom so she had all the pc's have wacom drivers installed and now i cant use my vistablet with em

Just by mentioning Vista, you've just stated your core problem right there. Vista is a poorly designed OS and doesn't like to run or recognize ANYTHING correctly. That's why on my laptop I downgraded to XP and when I got my new desktop I made sure it was Windows 7, haven't had issues with anything since.

i have to agree with you... i never even got Vista on my comp... stuck with XP until that laptop died and immediately went to windows 7... apart from me not being able to change my desktop picture not a single problem

y'know, I'm always hearing that. I'm always hearing how Vista is phail and can't run anything right. It's why I was hesitant to buy this comp I'm using that has Vista. So far: No problems. At all. My tablet runs fine, been able to install the Wacom Drivers with no problem. At least untill Photoshop gets involved, then it screws up the driver. Don't use PS anyway, I'm a GIMP person. But I've so far had no problems with Vista

Yes that's how it seems at first. When I first got my laptop Vista ran really nicely, about 5-6 months afterwords little by little things started to freeze/glitch or simply not work at all. Things like windows media player to straight playing video's off of firefox browser. The thing is, it doesn't always happen, some days it works nicely and other is just becomes utterly retarded and unusable. If it works for you without issue, consider yourself lucky, most people haven't had that opportunity thus far.

meep

Lol, I'm with you, I'm a happy Vista user who never had a trouble, at least for the year I've been using it.

Also, Genius seem to work right, but no idea regarding Wacom.

14 months with Vista. No issues besides some old hardware and ancient game issues, really.

This was a real fun experience for anyone who's machine was ruined by an official vista service pack (hooray Vista SP1), because the ability for the computer to boot past a crcdisk check is completely unnecessary and it should totally be normal for an OS to take two and a half hours to think about this step.

I bought my laptop a year ago, and my desktop two years ago. Aside from some compatibility with non MS programs written before Vista, I've had no troubles with Vista. And those problems all went away somewhere around the release of the Service Pack.

So yeah. Minor problems in two years, none at all in about 1.5 or so.

Note, that I don't own a tablet, WACOM or not, at this time, so my information is sadly useless to Nek0gami himself. I mostly just like to occasionally point out how Vista's reputation is rather overstated.

OMG BARON MUNCHAUSEN!
"oh baaaron... mmmmmhmhmhmh!"

I only got about 3-4 months before my computer's speed essentially got trashed. And it just decided to do dick things. A lot. Windows 7 is better, but I'm still having a couple hardware related issues.

I got to thinking, In a perfect world, everyone should have cocks, girls and guys, you know awesome that'd be? Then I came up with:

Why Are Cocks Only Male.

The future evolution of the human species: EVERYONE HAS COCKS, MARK MY WORDS PITIFUL MORTALS.

What is this I don't even D:

cocks aren't only male....what about herms, hmmm? and shemales

I'm talking reality lol. IN REALITY EVERYONE HAS COCKS that is my dream. =)

Herms do actually exist In reality mate, as do shemales (shemales aren't born like it....but herms are)

Well, not like, pronz herms, sad little mutant ones (no offence to IRL herms) but IRL herms aren't nothing like pronz herms. =/

LOL Hmmm.... with all the hormone-altering pollution entering the water that hasn't been properly studied... who knows? It could start happening to everything being born...

You always struck me as more of the hetero individual.

...we should talk |3~

Lol maybe. I've recently discovered that cocks are..........awesome. =P

Why can't we all just be shape-shifty things?

Amen!

Because I don't want to look like this
http://www.oglaf.com/kingshaped.html
That page is SFW, the rest of the comics are not.

...Mine worked just fine with the online drivers o.o

You sure you didn't just grab the wrong ones, or are Bamboo, Graphire, etc. working on the same drivers as Intuos now?

Which version didja grab?

I'm not entirely sure, it's been about a year now. But they had separate drivers for Intuos/Cintiq, I think, that have worked thus far.

This should work. It's the most current version.

http://www.wacom.com/downloads/driv.....ail.php?id=214

That happened to me as well, though mine was Intuos 2

Never got that one to work (on either laptop or main), but when my new one came in and showed similar problems on the laptop, turned out it was my Norton blocking the installation process. Turned off the AntiVirus software, reinstalled, and now it works like a charm.

...pretty sure mine just plugged and played so to speak

.. I love my XP computer and old Bamboo Fun Tablet. They've only had a tiff once, early on.

Yah. XP was such a beautiful OS. *Sniff* ; ~;

Downgrade? Well...actually, weighing out the pros and cons of Vista...upgrade?

When did you buy your Laptop?

soooooooooooooooo Can I used Wacom With my Windows 7? that is the real question!

I'll ask perhaps the most important question here: why is your eye covered? D:

was taking the trash out this morning, and got tree sperm in my eye. Took the one contact out and let it soak for a bit- so I tipped my hat over my eye in the meantime =P

The trees just want you to love them.

damn tree bukakae

If being showered with tree-love is wrong, I don't want to be right!

I use a Cintiq with Vista and it uses the same drivers as the Intuos 3. I think my intuos 3 worked with Vista, but it would've happened a long time ago and I don't want to get it from my car.

unfortunately i dont own a brand such as wacom so i cant be much help... maybe run the installer in compatability mode for XP?

When did you get Vista? There may be a good solution to your problems with it.

I have two computers.

Desktop gaming rig that just died (XP)
Laptop that I use for social interaction (browsing, YIM, FA) (VISTA)

This is one of those "Well why not upgrade to 7 to get your tablet to work" with the answer of "I shouldn't have to." (currently CCleanering the fuck out of the registry just to be sure)

Ah, fun times. But, if you got your copy of Vista after June, then you get an upgrade for the low, low price of: FREE!

I'm just sayin'. But I know that it's a pain in the arse to not have something work with Vista.

Vista runs really broken on laptops. Why they include it on most laptops is beyond me.
I use an Intuos3 and Vista on my desktop and do not have a single problem. Something about laptops seems to make the OS angry though :(

you could leave out "on laptops" in that first line =P

They took the Youtube approach with vista: "As soon as people are comfortable with something, fuck with em."

Yeah, that's the general opinion I heard for the longest time, and even I preached about how shitty Vista was. But after Service Pack 2, I installed it so I could have more RAM and I've actually really been liking it, and the bits I don't like were fixed in Win7. I don't know what people are still complaining about, other than laptop issues *~*'

It didn't come with the right kind of disc? Hm... I had a Vista Laptop and I got an Intuos 4 (w/disc). The drivers worked fine. Now I'm running Windows 7 and it doesn't work right. It doesn't map right, to be accurate.

it did but those drivers are for XP only (This tablet is the one I used to use on my now-dead XP machine. And like you said, online drivers never worked. Only the Disc

New drivers from the website should fix your issues, I've been using an Intuos 4 on windows 7 for several months now without issue.

used the ones that just came out a few days ago.

Hey, its working right, now. Thanks for the update on the drivers. I forgot to check up on that.

Don't know if someone answered you already, but there's a simple yet retarded solution to this.

I had the Same problem, and what I found out is that you have to use an older driver. I'm not sure which one I used, like a 2000 driver or something like that. It doesn't behave all the way like it should, but it's better than it just acting like a mouse..

If you have more questions, I actually have all this archived on my computer sonewhere (I'm replying from my iPod) so ya. Anymore questions feel free to shoot me a note..

That is, if you haven't solved it yet...

Vista was made to drive every one insane

You see patterns like that, Good OS - dicking with people OS - Good OS - dicking with people OS
like 95 - ME - XP - Vista.

Left out 98 and 2000. (2000 and XP both being okay confused some people for a bit, before they remembered that ME came between them, and was so terrible that they temporarily forgot it existed.)

2000 was aimed more toward the server market as a replacement for NT.

Reminds me of the last Tablet I had (a CompUSA in-store branded, probably from wacom) I tried to get drivers that worked with Vista. I discovered not only was the web site in some kind of asian, the english side was almost impossible to search. Bottom line the tablet was not suported anymore. So I bought a Bamboo from wacom, and it works alot better. If there's no modified generic drivers. Then odds are the tablet might have gone past it's age for continued support like most things that didnt work with Vista. But could it work on win7?

I remember having this issue with an old graphire back on XP..but for the life of me I can't remember how I fixed it(apart from obliterating the operating system) but suggestion, install drivers/software(possibly an older version of the package from their website), restart, plug in.

Im using it and its working fine. your best bet is to go to the wacom site and download the latest driver/software from there instead of using the disk, my disk was far outdated when i got my wacom and it didnt do squat.

I'm actually finding it funny that every other post contradicts the previous one on things to do ;3

well, this is what happens when you ask everyone for help x3. have at least any of them worked?

my bamboo is running fine but then again im on 7.
My issue lies with my scanner. Windows not only refuses to install the driver so I can get at the damned thing's harddrive, but it also refuses to notice there's an issue.

Yeah. i see it. It's in my usb port. Dunno what it is but it's there. What do you expect ME to do about it?
um... I expect you to make it work. that's sortta your job.
Well I dunno what it is. Maybe you need to reinstall the drivers. Here's a button to do that.
Ok. *click*
Well looks like your drivers are fine. It's all good. Still don't know what you want me to do with this mystery thing plugged into me though.
<_<

I fixed it by getting windows seven.

As a matter of fact, i fixed EVERYTHING by getting windows seven.

You've pretty much tried everything I'd recommend... I can only dig into the realm of crazy in the tech support loop:

* Make sure the USB port is powered (tablet light comes on when it's plugged in?) it's possible that the tablet isn't getting enough juice. That'd be borderline unheard of if it's a port on the computer itself and not a non-powered USB hub, but I've seen stranger things happen.
* I've seen plenty of USB ports on computers go bad; try a different device on the port and see if it works.
* Be sure you're using Driver 6.1.5-3a from Wacom's site, dated March 15, 2010, specifically for Vista and Intuos 3
* Might try using the "Have Disk" method of installing the drivers using the device manager
* Try using an older driver from Wacom's site. There's 3 other ones for Intuos 3 besides the latest one
* Try the tablet on another computer to make sure it still works. I noticed you said your desktop rig died - I actually lost a tablet that way. Motherboard shorted out and fried my tablet with it. Wacom was cool enough to sell me an Intuos 3 at a big discount when I told them about it.

I'd put my money on the first or second, Ramz, but the problem is I know with my little Intuos3 with my netbook the light would come on using any port but the tablet would only function if I used the powered USB slot. Unpowered USB seems to give the tablet enough juice to light up but not enough to function, it's damn odd.

Again, the tablet and USB is fine. It's the drivers =P

The computer knows it's a tablet, knows it's from WACOM, detects the pen in "mouse" mode, but the second you try to interact with Wacom's program to switch on it's pressure sensitivity into pen mode? "NO TABLET FOUND"

Did the same thing with the XP computer if you tried to use the online drivers. Had to use the CD then NEVER UNPLUG THE USB. If you did, it went RIGHT back into 'derp' mode of NO TABLET FOUND.

I use a Violito 2 wacom, this thing is about 6 or so years old, and its fine with the drivers off the Wacom site under Win7 64bit, It also worked fine when i had vista too.

Have you tried a different usb slot? You might have a dodgy port otherwise. You could always try a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card thing. See if that picks it up.

Also best to remove anything wacom related in safe mode. and run reg cleaner, ccleaner whatever in there as windows frees it up.

I know vista can be a picky fuck. Turnn off uac and all that? It also might be conflicting with something?

Try manually installing the drivers using the Have Disk method. Failing that, try a slightly older version of the driver from websites.
I know Intuos3s work just fine on Windows 7 64-bit, so it should work fine on Vista :P Vista and 7 drivers are usually identical in terms of compatibility (it either works for both or doesn't work at all).
If it still won't work, try a different USB port. If nothing, then try another PC to see if it isn't the tablet.

Why are you on vista anyway?

Because my XP computer died 3 days ago, and I have to work with Vista computers. This isn't a situation of "I have the perfect set up" This is working with what I have.
Plus Vista scares the kids. >:3

*chuckles* scares the kids huh?
If I was in your position I would either try and upgrade to 7 or 'upgrade' to XP....Any plans to try and change your OS from vista?

I have been told by all my friends to get 7, but i have never have any problem with vista at all, and with the tablet... my intuos 3 works perfectly, same as when I had XP, sometimes it just doesn't recognize it when I plug it in, but I'm just gonna second what FironDraak said (plug it in in another port), 'cause that is what I do and works. You shouldn't have any problems, but if it persists, maybe just upgrade to 7.

I've got a working Intuos3 on my Vista 64 Ultimate PC.

Make sure you are using a powered USB slot. If you have a spare USB hub with a power cord attach THAT to the USB slot and see if the tablet is read.

I know on my netbook only one of the three USB slots is powered(it's listed in the manual), and my Intuos3 only works on that slot.

PS: I understand Vista had a bum release but I waited 2 years before upgrading to it and I have never had a single major problem. I had an issue with my ancient mouse not working, but that was a cheap upgrade. I had a couple of problems with old games, all of which were solve-able.. and those were mostly because of the OS being 64 bit.

Then again furs find a million ways to be obstinate so I shouldn't be surprised.

oh the tablet is there. It's just Wacom's drivers are so UNGODLY ... BAD. It's like they don't do any variable testing.

It really doesn't sound like a driver problem to me.

You've tried using different USB ports on the laptop, as well as using a known, powered USB hub?

Lol Vista.

That's all I have to say.

pfft I had ME and 2.3kbps connection for about 3 years. If the OS isn't crashing every time a file is opened, clicked, or looked at, then I just consider it a learning experience.

And a random little note- I never take anyone seriously who has XP with a blue taskbar. It's a weird rule but I have reasons.

I use XP but with the 95 look. Storn VGA YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!

I do the same..
Cause then I can modify the colors of the apperance..
baby blue on black ^-^;

I always changed it to Silver :3

I hate anything default..
and make it a point to do whatever it is I can to customize something =D

I usually stick to my favorite color scheme
Baby blue accents/text on Black areas

Can't help you there buddy. My computer came preinstalled hehe *Hugs tight*

My intuos 4 hasn't had any issues on XP, Vista or win7 yet, all 32bit. All I did was load the driver that came with it. It's only a medium and I really don't use it alot, but when I do it moves the way it should and it seems to work ok in paint shop pro, CS4.

I have a solution , switch to Windows 7 *wink wink*

Don't beat me :P

yer right, typing with one eye covered IS awesome!

"Hello, I.T. Have you tried turning it off then back on again?



...have you REALLY tried turning it off and then back on again?



...Thank you for calling I.T."

I do wish I could remember what that was from >.>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt9j80Jkc_A

Ah yes, the IT crowd

I have an Intuos 3 running on Windows 7.
I run driver version 6.1.1

I remember having an issue when my Graphire 2 drivers (my OTHER tablet) did not like my Intuos 3. I had to uninstall the Graphire 2, uninstall the Intuos 3, and I think uninstall the pen itself, I don't exactly remember (I had this problem when running vista).

I had that happen recently with my Wacom (older GD/Intuos 1 tablet) under Windows 7. For what it's worth, this seemed to make it work for me.

1. Remove the tablet from the USB port.
2. Reboot.
3. Start the wacom 'Tablet Preference File' utility and remove your preferences and the 'all users' preferences.
4. Go to the services control panel and stop the 'TabletServiceWacom' service.
5. Pull up the task manager, and make sure to 'View Processes from All Users' and kill any Wacom_ process running.
6. Uninstall the wacom drivers.
7. Reboot.
8. Install the latest drivers (6.1.5-3), make sure to match 32/64 bit to your OS.
9. Reboot.
10. Plug the tablet into a DIFFERENT usb port than it was in previously (not sure if this matters, but it is what I did).
11. Wait for windows to detect the device and go through it's crazy process.
12. Before putting a pen or mouse on the tablet, start the wacom tablet properties tool.
13. Snag your pen or 4D mouse and touch it to the tablet.

That seemed to work for me. There might be variations on that for your specific problem, but it worked for me when I was doing it on windows 7. I think the real trick was using a different USB port so it'd install new drivers for it. But, I didn't want to test beyond making it work again. Good luck getting it fixed!

This.

You are the first to mention that he needs to remove all the old drivers first. It's the main issue here, just no one else seemed to bring it up.

try typing eiyh both eyes coverted its better

I have the same porblem with my Genius Tablet and Windows 7.
I installed the win2000 drivers and works. Maybe it works on Wacom too.

you might have to download the 64 bit version of the drivers for the tablet off their website

I'm running my Intuos 3 on Vista Pro on my shitty little laptop. I really wish I have more of an answer for you aside from "I installed the drivers from the CD and plugged it in and it worked." o.o

My sister had no problems getting the drivers for her old Wacom to work on her new Windows 7 computer, incidentally.

She actively went to the Wacom site and downloaded the drivers manually, though.

It took me four tries to get my Intuos 4 to work with my Vista machine...the drivers definitely never work the first time, and on occasion, the divers will completely go missing...

...While I'm working.

The only way to remedy this is to restart my machine. Insane.

I'm really looking forward to the day when Wacom fixes their shiz and actually makes their own drivers that continuously, without fail WORK.

Your last comment in the journal made me try that..
and realize..
just how effing cool that is!!

with the bamboo pen and touch i had to use the driver uninstall utility on their site, install off cd, then use a driver update

I recall Vista gave me some minor issues when I first installed the tablet ( I'm using an Intuos II though ) and ended up having to disable Vista's native tablet PC drivers.

Afterwards, I installed the Wacom drivers, plugged in the tablet and it hasn't given me any issues since. Pulled the drivers off of their site.

Again though, I'm using an Intuos II.

If you DO manage to get it running, an additional bit of info may help you when it comes to pen sensitivity.

Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Pen and Input Devices -> Flicks Tab

Uncheck the " Use flicks to perform common actions. . .etc. . . "

Once I get to work, I'll fire up my laptop which has Vista on it to reverify what I've done to get the tablet up.

I just verified that I have the Tablet PC Input Service disabled on my machine. If I recall correctly, it was wreaking havoc with the Wacom so I just flat disabled it.

My theory is Vista gets confused over which driver to use. Their own, or the Wacom one.

I would remove the Wacom Driver, disable the aforementioned service, reinstall the Wacom driver, plug the tablet in and see what happens. Don't forget to deal with the Flicks issue above or your pen sensitivity may go all stupid on you.

The one-eye thing is pretty cool. Your brain tries to compensate for the lack of vision in one eye and when you finally restore vision to the eye you've covered it's this really trippy "3D" effect from the depth perception overload.

You have to start the install process of the driver, and at the license agreement press these keys in order: up up down down left right left right B A

Have you tried setting the drivers to run in XP compatibility mode before installing them?

Unplug/uninstall/reboot
Find driver installer
Right click > Properties
Compatibility Tab
Set to Windows XP Service Pack 3
Check Run This Program As Administrator
OK
Install and see if it works

Surprised no-one has suggested?

Uninstall all Wacom drivers in device manager, and make sure that it removes all files linked to it.
Reboot, do not plug wacom tablet back in yet.
Download and run the latest drivers available, don't click anything that may pop up during the process. (Best to run this by itself, nothing else in the background)
Reboot.
Once Vista is fully loaded, plug in Tablet.

I bought my laptop with standard Vista on it and I immediately downgraded it to XP just for being one OS the best OS of Wacom tablets. I tried running my Wacom Bamboo on Vista and those two aren't best friends. When I tried to draw something Vista was trolling me with a stupid circle thingy that made the pen go nuts and laggy.


Maybe you should consider to downgrade your laptop too. It won't harm your lappy.

for being one of the best* ( stupid laptop touchpads )

I have a Bamboo Tough and had no problem installing it on my new HP Pavilion dv6-2155dx and had no problem at all installing it. o.o Maybe it's just vista or the Intuos 3s?

Lol, I used to do that 1-eye thing all the time by covering up one eye with my beanie and then going to the store, and removing it half way home so things would have all these different colors. o.O

~N~

Gami, I think I have a solution..... try turning off UAC, delete WACOM.DAT and and then install the drivers. Sounds retarded, but a few people have reported success.
There's also the pen mode fix... http://kay.za.net/2008/09/wacom-int.....with-solution/

Good luck, I guess :|

I use PhotoShop CS4 with my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet on my Vista laptop without a problem. I just installed the drivers from the website and it worked pretty much fine O.o

I had the same problem before for about a week.

I'm running on windows 7, and it was going smoothly for a month or so then I wake up, stumble over to my PC...and nothing...so after trying to find out everything with just a keyboard i get a friends mouse and started trying to update my drivers... Didn't work...

How I fixed mine
After downloading and installing the drivers for an unknown number of times I decided it would be easier just to have it in an easily accessible folder so I could mash my mouse button on it over and over again in a fit of rage... I copied the driver out of it's temp folder and into my Docs and I start mashing away... And after the first try it worked.. I don't know how it did this, but it worked...however i was stuck running the driver again and again for about a week and it eventually decided it didn't want to stop working anymore...

So this should be a decent temporary fix, mine fixed it's self long term after a while, but until then this was it...GL man

One of my friends who has a Wacom tablet also had something like this (on Vista home basic), but that was until he got Service pack 1 installed, he says that "before SP1 Vista was t3h $h!t" but now everything everything works fine...

Im still waiting for my tablet to be delivered. Its been three weeks today. T_T

Are you still having the issue? I have been using my Intuos 3 with vista for a long time. I first used the CD that came with it, but recently I have been using the driver I downloaded from the web site. If you want I think I still have it and can e-mail it to you.

I've had an intuos 3 running on vista (lol, i know).

I had to use old drivers for it to work, (pre-bamboo era.) it seems they "updated" their drivers to fail miraculously so you'd get a new tablet, or something.


They never add new features or fix any bugs (that i know of) in their "updates" so i sticked with the old driver.

I've got an old wacom graphire which seems to work okay under vista... There was a page with unified drivers for really really old tablets... Maybe that'd work a bit better?

Im having the same problem with my tablet.
and it goes on to tell me i need to-re install it all again too..over...and over.
-.-; but it works sort of im just stuck with a flat line rather than the pressure brushes.

PS: I LOVE how everything of Wacom's is so goddamn bland and of no effort. All of their installation windows and menus look like something from pre-Win95, and their main site -- It's like minimalistic without style.. that tries to blind you..

Yes, it's quite ironic that a company specializing in digital art supplies has such an overbearing lack of artistic flair isn't it?

Tangentially related, if you ever scrape up $150 or so you can turn that Intuos into a Cintiq: http://www.tabletmod.com/

Aww... this sounds like a major bummer... I use a Bamboo Fun (medium), and I had no such issues :O

Answer my notes damn it!

I've got an intuos3 on my Vista laptop. I've never had any problems that couldn't be solved by reinstalling the drivers, though

am i late to hate vistaids party?

Try installing XP or 7. Seriously, just go torrent it and install it. Every minute on Vista is a wasted minuted.

On another note, Wacom makes good products but their drivers are garbage and usually have incompatibility issues OUT THE ASS.

I'd not advise to steal it, but I do advise you to skip vista and go for 7.

>I'd not advise to steal it
Who said steal it? Torrenting is perfectly legal if you have original copies :P

Then why would you have to torrent it in first place. c~c

trollface.jpg

Follow steps in order to recieve ultimate happiness.
1) Grab laptop and wacom.
2) Open oven
3) ??????
4) BIG PROFITS!


No seriously, the only thing I can say is completely uninstall your old drivers, reinstall the ones that the website says will supposedly work with 7, XP, or Vista.
http://www.wacom.com/downloads/driv.....ail.php?id=214
Reboot with your wacom plugged in or unplugged, if the drivers work properly it shouldn't matter.
BIG PROFITS!

hopefully.

Or go ahead, backup your system, get the free upgrade to windows 7, reinstall software (wacom drivers/photoshop/sai).
BIG PROFITS!

best of luck.

WHOA, that one-eye pseudo 3d trick does work!

I've used my Wacom tablet on Vista with no problems at all. Same with Win7. Certain applications, on the other hand can have varying degrees of usefulness. Wacom uses an ancient api called wintab, a terribly outdated pile of dinosaur dodo that is basically owned by a patent troll. This decreases competition for Wacom basically. Adobe and Corel see no need to make their aps compatible with any other api since the vast majority of their users are Wacom tablet owners therefore non wintab tablets either have to pay the exorbitant licensing fees to use wintab or somehow fudge the driver with a workaround to get Photoshop and the vast majority of graphics software in use today to work.

Windows has a perfectly fine free and modern tablet driver api available but only a very few programs like ArtRage actually use it. This is one of the huge problems with tablet computers right now, only penabled Wacom based tablets have full functionality with Photoshop and the vast majority of graphics programs and only a very few tablet have Wacom technology due to high licensing fees. I got burned by this myself, the tablet said it had full functionality and the demonstration art program showed that yes, it did very nicely. Problem was it only worked in the ArtRage program itself and in Photoshop the pen lost all pressure sensitivity function. The bastards use the excuse that it isn't their fault or problem that Adobe and the rest of the graphics world uses wintab.

N-trig can die in a fire. So can the owners of Wintab.

If i were you i'de go go windows 7. Vista has like a 90% chance of crashing.

all of the above.

I have the Intuous 3 and I'm running a Vista laptop Had no problems!

Not sure if anyone gave the answer above (I started reading and saw "Upgrade to 7!" so decided to skip ) but I think I just used the downloadable drivers...

Though saying that, they may have different drivers for different regions of the world? I'd try and find you the URL for the Wacom EU drivers however their EU site is being wonderful and not actually loading >.<

All I can tell is I'm running version 2.9.2.3 of the driver

When I first got a new machine that has Vista, I found my current (and only) tablet didn't have drivers for Vista :O After about a day's search I find out that the technology behind my tablet is repeatedly re-branded and that the driver's for newer pads work just as well with older pads. Problem solved! Well, for me that is. I don't know of anything you can do for your problems D:

Is it the 12x12 Intuos 3 that you are using? If so, try going here http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/compatibility/windows-vista/Details.aspx?type=Hardware&p=Wacom%20Intuos3%2012x12%20&v=Wacom&uid=&pf=0&pi=6&c=Mice,%20Keyboards%20%26%20Input%20Devices&sc=Mice&os=32-bit, this page seemed to work, with both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers. If it's not the 12x12 version... It may still work ^^.

I'd say... just try and re-download and install the drivers. I own an Intuos 3, used since like.. 3 Christmas's ago. Between me and my friends, it's worked on Windows XP, Vista (their computer/laptop), and 7 (just tonight).

Either keep trying, or restart the computer a few times after installing it. I personally installed the drivers, then connected the tablet. Sometimes it'll suddenly start working (my old graphire3 did this on XP. Didn't work right, and then suddenly worked perfect until it died completely).

UPDATE: The lubrication (pause for obligatory jokes.) in the power supply's fan heated and locked up to the point it became a solid (have pics XD) The power supply didn't react well with that. And of COURSE it's not one of those power supplies that let you change out the fans. (hardwired in).

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Laptop is Vista (if I had the money for 7 I'd buy a power supply!!!) and Vista + CS4 does NOT like Wacom tablets. Even with proper drivers installed it does not recognize pressure sensitivity (HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS GET PAST TESTERS?!?!)

I'm pulling a few favors (see the end of the second act of any mobster film) to get a few parts replaced... I'll likely be KILLED when that first bill comes in, but... yanno. For the artwork, for the Guild. (Affinity!).


Great Yod.

On XP I had a problem with the tablet not working because another drive was out of date (my logitech mouse). Once all the drivers were updated everything was working fine.

On Win 7 the drivers installed ok, but I was having trouble with the tablet due to the built-in Tablet PC mode/support. It looks like Vista also has that, and the built in drivers for that might be conflicting with the Wacom ones. After disabling the Tablet PC stuff on Win 7, it was working fine for me. Here's how to disable it on Vista: http://malektips.com/vista-disable-.....et-pc-ink.html

i didn't noticed that you have actually a real problem, well, for my case, i'm using windows 7, if your tablet doesn't work on your photoshop, don't close it, go on your other program and come back on your photoshop, if it doesn't work again, then, just close up your session without rebooting your computer and try again.

there the other possibility that vista/seven use tablet pc feature that make conflit with wacom drivers. then you just need to turn them off ^^; i did with my windows seven but i don't know for vista. ^^;

i have an hp tc4200 seems to work fine has vista-wacom drivers and everything.