Problem with Wacom tablet! HELP!

[SKËTCHtheartist]

Hi there!

I've been having a little problem with my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet for a couple of months. Sometimes, the Pressure Sensitive fonction will stop working and I'll have to reboot my PC for it to work. I've checked in the options, and visually, it's suppose to be on.

Does anyone know what causes this?

Thanks in advance!

[Idiot Apathy]

No clue why, power loss maybe. Check your cables I dunno. Pen nib?
Sometimes when this happens to me It's just Photoshop, so perhaps all that is necessary is to reboot your painting program.

[Snarfevs]

If you are using the 6.00 series drivers, try unistalling and rolling back to the 4.96-8 drivers or earlier. If the tablet is connected through a USB 2.0 hub, try connecting directly to the motherboard backplate. Try restarting photoshop with the pen above the tablet.

Problems of this sort appear to be a fairly common at the moment. It may be a USB host bus problem. Wacom appears to acknowledge it but hasn't explained exactly what is going wrong. Hopefully future driver updates will address this.

You can reinitialise the drivers without rebooting by:
hit win-r, run 'cmd'
type 'net stop tabletservice'
go to task manager (ctrl-shift-esc) and kill any surviving processes with the word 'tablet' in them
goto the command prompt again and type 'net start tabletservice'
the wacom tablet driver window should appear in the top left

hope this helps.

[gl0gg]

For me the pressure sensitivity stops working temporarily when stuff is happening in other places of the desktop, for example when the vlc media player stops or changes files in the playlist. Then I just have to change focus to the app that made the change and again back to painter/ps and the pressure sens. is back again. This prolly only works in some certain cases, and I am sure the error is bigger than this, but at least it might be worth thinking about if you're watching tv-shows or something while painting =)

[bumskee]

alt+tab back into PS usually works for me..