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Predestine
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April 25, 2021
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Pen pressure not working while windows ink is off (even with PSUserconfig.txt file added)

  • April 25, 2021
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Been trying all day long to get photoshop to work without windows ink but nothing ive tried has made even the slightest difference. im using the latest version of photoshop 2021 and ive added the PSUserConfig.txt file with the content 

# Use WinTab

UseSystemStylus 0

and still nothing. so im forced to either use the extremely buggy and annoying windows ink or have no pen pressure. can someone please help me with this?

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    Correct answer TechManJoe

    something i did has fixed it for now. changed PSUserconfig.txt to just PSUserconfig without the txt extension and changed the content to

    # Use WinTab in PS CC for Wacom Tablet not INK
    UseSystemStylus 0
    # CC 2019 20.0.5 supress warning about running scripts.
    WarnRunningScripts 0

    and after a while it just started working again. im not gonna touch it at all now cause i dont want it to break again. thanks for the help though!


    PLEASE NOTE
    Many people have complained that the PSUserConfig file was not working.  It WILL NOT WORK unless the "C" in Config is capitalized.  Many people failed to specify that case sensitivity even in this post.   And the file needs nothing more than the single line "UseSystemStylus 0" which is also case sensitive.   See attached file.

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    Searchuu
    Searchuu
    Participant
    February 9, 2024

    Man i just wanted to say thank you. 
    My story with this bull*** was so long you have no idea, and by a lot of hours of surfing, A LOT of different threds i just couldnt find solutions. When i understood my problem and differences between Windows Ink and WinTab Api, the last thing i couldn't do was to force PS to work with WinTab, there was still no pressure with just "UseSystemStylus 0".
    Your anserw down below worked miracles, im just super glad because last decent working Photohop is 21.0.2 cause each newer does not support WinTab. As for me as Digital Artist this is super important, because windows ink just straight up lags, its so bad its a joke.

      Searchuu
      Searchuu
      Participant
      February 9, 2024

      For future artists. Im using Huion H1060P, i have to disable windows ink in the Huion driver and then force Photoshop to use WinTab (correct anserw comment). New Photoshops (as for now 2024) with windows ink got annoying issues, for ex. with "scrubby zoom" flicking, which was super frustrating, and overall you need better PC. 
      Photoshop 2020 with WinTab Api is just superior, you can't have better PS for now as an artist.

        Trevor.Dennis
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        Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        April 26, 2021

        As a wee aside to this, I've been able to use Windows Ink without any problems for the last two or three major version updates, but it became glitchy with 22.3.1  I was still getting pen pressure changes to the brush presets, but I was getting other issues that made it difficult to use.  I switched back to a standard PSUserConfig.txt and turned off Windows Ink, and it is now fine.

         

        It occurs to me that I have not looked at my Wacom driver for quite a while.   I amd currently using 6.3.41-1

        Ignore that.  A quick look showed that I was using the latest version.  This is an Intus 4 medium.

          Denyerpro
          Denyerpro
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          January 23, 2022

          Out of interest, was one of the issues you experienced the brush cursor turning into a windows mouse pointer when you clicked?  I had an issue where with the Quick Selection Tool, when drawing with it, the cursor would revert to a standard windows pointer. The only solution I could find was to revert to WinTab.

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            PredestineAuthor
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            April 25, 2021

            oh and when windows ink is off my pen pressure still works in other programs.

            JJMack
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            JJMackCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            April 26, 2021

            What kind of Pen do you have? If you configure Photoshop to use WinTabs APIs interface for Pen support you also have to configure  Your Pen Device driver to use WinTab APIs with Photoshop.  On Windows Photoshop defaults to use Microsoft INK APIs and your Pen Device Driver also would default to use Microsoft INK APIs.   Both Photoshop and  your Pen need to use the same Interface

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            PredestineAuthor
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            April 26, 2021

            something i did has fixed it for now. changed PSUserconfig.txt to just PSUserconfig without the txt extension and changed the content to

            # Use WinTab in PS CC for Wacom Tablet not INK
            UseSystemStylus 0
            # CC 2019 20.0.5 supress warning about running scripts.
            WarnRunningScripts 0

            and after a while it just started working again. im not gonna touch it at all now cause i dont want it to break again. thanks for the help though!

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