wacom tablet + CS4 + No pressure sensitivity

Please, contact Wacom - they need customer input to figure this out.

god damn it!!!!! I have work to do!!!!...one minute the wacom is active another it's back to basic brushes..without any ability to manipulate the strokes cs4 is useless.....why am I wasting $$$$ on something that doesn't work....

JEEEZZZ.....Adobe/wacom sort this out..this is basics!!!!

OK...reformat done ...Sp1 and drivers (intel chipset + gpu + wacom drivers ) installed BEFORE I INSTALLED Photoshop CS4......and it all works fine. pressure sensitivity is working, for now, .....It would seem a clean install is the way - ---not convenient but may be necessary to clear out the gunk .

Hope this saves people hours of faffing around.

Chris

>Chris Cox:Please contact Wacom technical support -- they've had a few problems like this lately (intermittent dropouts) and they need help tracking down the cause(s).

I've done so. I also had the Wacom tablet service crash on me...I had PS CS4 up but wasn't using it at the time--I was actually reading this forum. I also sent Wacom the Event log entry showing the crash and the system related items in Help->System Info--yes, I removed the SN :)

will do....

Please contact Wacom technical support -- they've had a few problems like this lately (intermittent dropouts) and they need help tracking down the cause(s).

Is there a repair option? as I cannot find one.

a major pain in the butt!!!!!

Now I'm having a rough time reinstalling CS4 and I didn't deactivate it before a restore then an uninstall.

Any tips on that?

>(...)I have a grey warning triangle next to the pressure sensitivity selection options(...)

That's what I have on my laptop, with no Wacom attached, nor the driver installed.

But on my desktop I have pressure sensitivity. CS3 still, I have PS CS4 (boxed) on order. It's due here the 22nd. Will keep an eye on this issue.

Rob

EDIT: XP pro SP3 both computers BTW.

Your thread title gave me a sense of deja-vu as I posted one with a nearly identical title last night but then I deleted it. Now I'm positive I should not have deleted it.

I had this exact same problem yesterday on my:

>Vista Ultimate 64;
Intel DG965WH with Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
8GB RAM
nVidia 9800 GTX+ display card

but PS CS3 and LR2.1RC both worked fine on the same PC.

I installed the lastest drivers from Wacom (just released a day or so ago) and even uninstalled and re-installed PS CS4--after deactivationg both the 32 and 64 bit versions. Nothing seemed to help.

I turned off the pen input from the Windows control panel (as I always do) and I then just started using the tablet anyway, without the brush pressure sensitivity, and somewhere in the next half hour or so noticed the warning icon had disappeared from the brushes panel so I tried re-selecting pen pressure and this time it worked. It's been working since then.

On my laptop, which also runs WinVistaUltimate 64 I had the same problem. On this system all I did was install the latest Wacom drivers over the old drivers and execute PS CS4 64 bit. At first the icon was still there, but after a couple of minutes or so the warning icon disappeared and the PS CS4 saw the Wacom as a pressure sensitive device.

Oh Yeah, I also turned off the tablet input from the Windows Control panel. I don't know if it was the driver update or turning off the tablet input, but that was all I did to the laptop.

NOW, a few hours later, the warning symbol is back and I no longer have brush pressure sensitivity...I think Adobe has a real problem here for the pen pressure warning icon seems to appear and disappear at will.

UPDATE: 5 minutes later and the warning icon once again disappeared and I have pressure sensitivity. This instability never happened (and still doesn't) with PS CS3.