So I know I'm not alone in saying that I've been having a ton of problems with Wacom Drivers for a long time. However recently things have escalated.
I got fed up with the myriad of issues a few months back when one day the Wacom configuration utility stopped working and downloaded the latest win7 drivers; the result was UDK refused to launch, Photoshop would crash on launch, and 3ds Max would crash whenever a caddy or quad menu popped up. Uninstalling or installing new drivers wouldnt fix these huge fuckups and I used a system restore point to reverse the damage, and left myself stuck with old shitty drivers and no configuration tools or program preferences.
I got fed up again the other night and tried once more to update my drivers. I updated to Driver 6.3.3-4 and had the same fucking problems. This time I don't seem to have a system restore point and a massive chunk of programs either refuse to launch or crash on launch.
Has anyone had this issue before? Can anyone shed light on how Wacom drivers could fuck with so many programs?
And more to the point, how can I safely remove all and every trace of Wacom drivers from my system to try and start from a clean slate?
Thanks for any help guys.
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I've never had any quite so severe. seems like it might be more than those drivers going wrong.
that said the wacom drivers are a total fecking mess. we had massive problems at Work getting the cintiqs to function for more than 30 minutes without driver crashes. out of the box they were totally unuseable. (we had to revert to older drivers to make em function)
usually i keep my drivers up to date but with wacom it seems to be a case of find one that works and stick with it. the newer ones keep getting worse and worse.
So yeah. If their shit breaks, don't use it.
Wacom's going down. No seriously over the 30 24hd we have at work we already have almost half of them going into aftersale, my home one got twice to aftersale for black screen problem and is going for a third time monday morning since it simply "burned" (with heavy smell and all!) last friday...
Drivers are another issue ofc, but the quality of their latest products is definitely shit...
I'm looking at alternative, already contacted Hanvon for custom made tablet for work and home for when the last of the cintiqs lose their warranty, we'll see how that goes but I for sure won't be buying wacom tablet anytime soon and I was a pretty loyal customer (got every intuos except v1 and a few cintiqs).
Thanks fletch, that method cleaned out the drivers and all their related problems. As BARLDER said, I'm sure this was a symptom of a larger OS problem or conflict because it really doesn't make much sense. I'll probably try a windows repair soon.
Now to pick a driver and hope it works... the oldest drivers where missing functionality and some of the newer drivers broke everything so I'm going to randomly pick 6.2 and trial and error from there.
bloody hell.
Is this more of an issue with their newer products and drivers?
No even older tablets have problems ranging from OS weirdness(Vista/7 shipping with some shitty tablet services which screw up a lot like flickering/disappearing quad menus) or refusing to use sensitivy after you switched to another window.
My all time "favorite" is when photoshop casually uses full pressure on some strokes despite barely touching the tablet.(this is driver related and can be solved with older or some newer drivers).
I wrote a program to deal with the windows weirdness at least.
LOGICAL !
So look up how windows is trying to unhelpfully assist you. That may help?
Everything worked fine on xp for me, I've only run into a crap now I'm on win7, including that need to alt tab out of PS to get pressure sensitivity back...
Everything works fine other than the left hand right hand confusion so too much effort for a clean system format.
To turn them off do this.
control panel,
programs and features,
turn windows features on or off (to the left on the screen)
unclick the tablet folder.
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i've had wacom driver problems on OSX at home in 2013 (after purchasing an intuos 5 and having to upgrade the driver to support that). does that count?
the solution at work with win 7 was to just send the PC with the wacom driver running correctly to hibernate in the evenings and not ever shut it down fully (no windows updates, no workflow fuckups). lets say IT did not exactly favour this approach but it conserved my sanity for the rest of the project.
iss it reasonable to assume that on windows 8 and 8.1 everthing is just fine?