Wacom Drawing Tablet Drivers

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Narcisa Flierl

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:27:15 PM8/3/24

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I have a Huion H640P Drawing Tablet, I found that it worked out of the box after plugging it in, however because I have Dual monitors the drawing tablet was spanned across both monitors which is not what I prefer and I could not find any way to change this in the Plasma system settings.

Which appears to install the Graphic Tablet Module under Input Device in Plasma System Settings
After this I went to the Graphics Tablet settings and it did not recognise my tablet so I then tried installing the Huion Tablet Drivers:

Now you can configure settings for your drawing tablet and draw to your hearts content.
I was able to find a setting that allowed me to toggle the tablet to only be used on the monitor of my choice.
A great application to use to draw stuff on linux is Krita.

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If anyone knows more about how to unlock more settings for drawing tablets like increasing the speed in which the pen draws on the screen or anything else to do with configuring drawing tablets on linux, feel free to share.

Hi All, just wanted to share something with everyone that worked for me today... I downloaded the open source driver from - and i got my Wacom Intuos Bamboo CTL6100WL working again on OSX Ventura 13.6 (22G120)! Finally! - It's been a pain in the *** with the wacom drivers & apple updates... , just overnight my tablet didnt work anymore with Ventura. Tonight I will do a system update to 13.6.1 as well. I'm staying away from the Sonoma updates until i'm 100% sure that the Adobe and Office software will work without any hickups too.

I did several variations of this, still with no luck - the tablet settings showed up in in system settings, but a touch with the pen triggered the blocked permission message, telling me to make sure the Accessiblity and Input Monitoring have Wacom enabled. Of course they did. Over and over.

What finally clued me in was the mention that if I could not toggle those settings on, remove them from the list (in Privacy & Security/Accessibilty and Input Monitoring) and restart again. Well, the settings were on already. But I noticed if I tried to toggle them Off, they just bounced back to On.

Since I don't use my Intuos PT M tablet a lot, I didn't notice it wasn't working in Ventura until seeing your topic. Every time I touched the pen to tablet, a message was popping up about something not being on in the System Settings. Except, they were on.

Per a suggestion on a site I visited, I uninstalled the drivers, and used EasyFind to track down all other pieces the driver installs (there's a lot of them) and cleared those out, too. Then I reinstalled the latest drivers. Still no luck. Same message.

Yes, you've put in more detail what I meant by going around about three times. You remove things, they come back. It still doesn't work. You remove them again and restart. Still doesn't work. Turn the settings off and restart, turn the settings back on. Whatever sequence finally gets things to stick correctly.

sadly, after wasting almost an entire day starting, restarting, installing, deinstalling... you name it, I've done it after endless back and forth between the Intuos tech support - if its so easy why don't they just remote in and fix it? I know why. Anyhow, nothing worked. The Intuos is now is now on then. bottom of the drawer never to see daylight again. The mouse may be like editing with with a brick... but it's reliable and it does what it says it will do.

I had almost given up after three days of trying to get the software to work. Then, despite doing what seemed like the same steps multiple times, it finally decided it as happy. Or more precisely, the OS thought it was properly installed.

Yup. Did the same uninstall/reinstall steps at least a dozen times. Including using EasyFind a couple of times to locate every bit and piece the installer drops all over the drive to remove them before trying again.

Please note!
-I am not a Mac or Linux user!! I only tested this tablet on Windows 8 and Windows 10
-Prices may have changed since I wrote this review.
-Check when a review was written. Some aspects may improve or change over time, so it is in your best interest to concentrate on reviews which are less than 1 year old.

Wacom put away the professional look for this tablet and instead opted for a more toy-like look with the coloured matte plastic used for the majority of the tablet, probably catering to the younger artists who will most likely consider Wacom products when looking to start digital art.

The texture on this tablet is the most paper-like of any graphic tablet out there and it feels very nice and smooth. Often when tablet companies try to add texture to their tablets, it ends up just becoming rough and non-paper-like, but this tablet has a texture very close to that of paper.
However, once you rub off the texture through continued use, the paper texture fades and becomes more of a smooth rubbery texture. This is something that in fairly common in textured tablets so it is expected, but basically, the texture gives a good experience at the start, but the experience drops and becomes like any other tablet once the texture is worn off.

The pen is made of a full matte plastic which is completely straight except for at the tip where it bulges to catch your fingers. This pen seems a little too short, and because of that it also feels much too light.

In the Pen tab, you can control the settings and configurations of the pen. The tip feel can be adjusted in both directions to be harder or softer, and the pen buttons can be configured to anything you can think of.

In the Mapping tab, you control which monitor your tablet is mapped to. I suggest using the Force Proportions checkbox to make sure you get the right screen to active area ratio for a proper drawing experience.

I have a Intuos PS CTL-490. I never had any problem with Illustrator, Photoshop or blender before. But, for some reason, illustrator keeps crashing after some minutes if i use the table to draw on it.

I tried some fixes i saw online such as rolling back to old drivers or illustrator versions, but it just didn't help. When i tried an older Illustrator version, i got a crash message, but, with the newest version, i don't even get an error message.

Is anyone else having the same issue? I saw some people complaining about it too. I assume it has something to do with Illustrator itself, since i don't have any issue with Photoshop or Blender. It's very... well... frustrating, to say the least.

Thx for your time. Cheers!

Which Wacom tablet driver are you using? If you're on a Windows-based PC and using the 6.4.1-3 driver (dated 1/24/2023) you should uninstall that and then download/install the older 6.4.0-11 driver (dated 11/21/2022). The 6.4.1-3 driver has serious problems. On my own system, using a Wacom Intuos Pro M, the Illustrator application window will just hang and mysteriously disappear, often within a couple or so minutes after launching the application. Strangely, when I run the driver logging utility to record what happens during a crash event the application won't crash. If the logging utility isn't running the crashes happen again. I simply gave up and reverted back to the November 2022 driver.

I'm wonder if any Mac users have experienced similar crashes. Wacom released a newer driver for OSX 10.5-13 on February 28. Along with having a newer driver, Mac users also have the benefit of being able to use a Wacom tablet without the absolute scourge of Windows Ink messing up the works.

Anyway, if you don't know it already the Wacom drivers location is here:
-us/support/product-support/drivers
Look for the "Older Versions" link under the "Download" button for the current driver.

First, make sure that you have the latest driver installed for your Wacom tablet. You can download the latest driver from the Wacom website. If you already have the latest driver installed, try reinstalling it to see if that helps.

Anyone running Adobe Illustrator or other Adobe applications on a Windows-based PC with a Wacom tablet connected would probably already have Windows Ink disabled regardless if any applications are crashing. Windows Ink is just the absolute worst for how it overrides important pen functions and certain keyboard shortcuts. If Windows Ink is enabled it will ruin any click-drag actions with the pen tip. An animated circle icon thingie pops up in the way, preventing the user to drag any slider icon in the user interface, such as the CMYK sliders in a color palette or a transparency level slider. Click-dragging the pen tip for animated zoom doesn't work either. The dreaded circle icons jumps up again. When clicking into any sort of text entry field a pop-up is liable to jump in the way, wanting you to manually hand-write your text rather than using the physical keyboard on your computer that is a million times faster at text entry. Illustrator and Photoshop (along with most other applications) are utterly not-usable when Windows Ink is enabled in a Wacom tablet's properties. It's pretty much the most utterly stupid graphics related software I've ever seen. I doubt if any of the Microsoft engineers who worked on that garbage have tried using the finished product for any everyday computing tasks. While Wacom continues to rely on Windows Ink for some of the tablet's most basic functions I would have to strongly recommend people only buy a Wacom tablet (or any other graphics tablet) if they're going to connect it to a Mac-based computer. Microsoft has made graphics tablets utterly stink when connected to a PC.

I'm using a Intuos Large Pro PTH-860 with Illustrator v27.7 and after working with support we verified that the current wacom driver 6.4.2-4 (macOS 10.15 - 13) used with any version of Illustrator past v27.3.1 is what causes a crash whenever a pattern brush is edited and you scroll the dropdown for the "Outer Corner Tile" option.