Fixing Microsoft Surface Pro / Windows 8

AzzaMat

So I picked up a surface pro a few days ago and I have been really enjoying using it. There are a few things that need fixing however. So I thought I would list a few fixes and tweaks.

1. Get more accurate pen target/ fix calibration. some clever guy worked out how to increase the number of reference points to get better calibration.

Original link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2171198

Clear your current calibration settings and paste this in the cmd

tabcal devicekind=pen lincal novalidate XGridPts=10,60,110,160,260,360,460,560,660,810,960,1110,1260,1360,1460,1560,1660,1760,1810,1860,1910 YGridPts=10,60,110,160,250,400,540,680,830,920,970,1020,1070

Calibrates with 273 points, you go through them quickly. Make sure you do this before installing the wacom driver. If you already have installed it. Uninstall, do this fix and then reinstall.

2. Fixing Pressure sensitivity. They finally released a driver so that pressure sensitivity works on photoshop zbrush etc. You can get it here

http://www.wacom.com/support/drivers

Choose tablet model in the first column and windows 8 in the right.

Windows 8 Ugly tiles

3. One of the shit things about windows 8 is the metro bar which would be tolerable if you could make your own tiles for programs. Now you can with Obly Tile. What's cool about this is that it lets you make web links as well as programs and folder shortcuts.

http://oblytile.en.softonic.com/

I have made a start creating some custom tiles, feel free to add your own and make sure to add a polycount tile =D

AzzaMat

A few extra tiles

cptSwing

Great thread. Makes me want to throw good sense overboard and _not_ wait for Surface Pro 2..

IchII3D

You might notice that when you install the Wacom drivers it removes your 273 point calibration and resets everything. You can only do a fairly simplistic calibration when having the Wacom drivers installed which is extremely frustrating. I'm hoping Wacom update the drivers to provide better calibration options are currently they are bottle necking the pen accuracy. I currently have them uninstalled out of frustration.

AzzaMat

really? thats odd. I found if I did the 273 calibration first and then installed the driver it didn't do that annoying thing where it goes off at the corners

AzzaMat

I have found some programs/features haven't been working on the surface pro (Marmoset toolbag, UDK mobile preview). After some digging I found a new driver on intels website. Once installed, both programs worked fine.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Graphics&ProductLine=Laptop+graphics+drivers&ProductProduct=3rd+Generation+Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+Processors+with+Intel%C2%AE+HD+Graphics+4000&ProdId=3712&LineId=1101&FamilyId=39

Choose Windows 8 64 bit and pick the second driver in the list.