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*SCREAMS, TANTRUMS ALL KINDS OF NONSENSE*
10 years ago
So. I got my new fucking tablet, spent nearly 400 dollars on the motherfucker and it's smaller than anticipated. About half an inch smaller than my old tablet. I bought it because I was having sensitivity issues with my old one (it's roughly 5 y.o. and has been all over the country with me and dropped multiple times, figured it was time), and every so often while drawing (Sometimes it's the second stroke, sometimes it's the 100th stroke) but my pressure sensitivity jumps from 0 to 100 and it makes painting incredibly annoying.
It happened occasionally on my old one. But it's gotten WORSE on my goddamn new one. I dont know what the fuck to do. I've so fa reinstalled drivers, cleared AND reinstalled drivers, opened photoshop as admin, disabled touch in my tablet, played with settings with doubletap.
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Both pretty much describe what I'm going through and they're years old, by now. Ugh. So mad. I should probably just go to bed before I have yet another meltdown for the day. ._.
I wonder if it's Wacom drivers, or the Photoshop software.
Biggest problem with troubleshooting artistic things is artists don't usually have a clear grasp on logical troubleshooting tactics. This is because they've trained their spacial, emotional side side, not their hard logic side.
Binary elimination is a troubleshooter's best friend. Narrow it down to two options and eliminate one of them. You can use this trick to guess a number in log2(n) guesses. That is, pick a number between 1 to 1,000, guess it in a maximum of 10 guesses (knowing if it's more or less than the guess). 1 to 10,000 in 14. 1 to 100,000 in 17. You can see how useful this trick is, mathematically.
A common troubleshooting binary elimination tactic is to figure out if the issue is hardware or software. Seeing how two different tablets are having the same problem implies the problem is not the tablet itself, but some element that is the same in both situations. Driver software is often reused between similar devices, and Photoshop is the drawing software used on both, which makes those good places to start.
So we can check each of those two and eliminate them. Since you don't have "alternative" drivers for your tablet, nor a different brand of tablet with different drivers, the painting software is the logical thing to check. Trying out SAI or some other painting problem, or even just talking to other artists that use other tools could get you closer to the source of the problem. The more information you have about the issue, the better you'll be able to fight it.
Document everything. Do tests or surveys with the goal of finding out useful information and eliminating possibilities. The source of the problem will eventually stick out like a fossil thumb once all the dust is cleared away. Good luck!
You go to your start, find the wacom folder and click 'Wacom Preference File Utility" then in the middle you'll see 'All User Preferences'. Click remove, and it'll take a moment, but make sure you don't have PS or any other program that you use with your tablet open. Once it's cleared reopen Photoshop and see if it works.
Not sure if this works with other tablets but I know it works with my little tablet and I 9/10 get pressure and sensitivity back in SAI and PS.