In reference to this thread someone had posted, I had has the EXACT same issue, and have gone through long hours of my own troubleshooting.
The problem:
Whilst drawing in either photshop or SAI, the pen pressure sensitivity would just randomly fail and draw solid thick lines as if drawn with the mouse.
See image:
What I also learned, is that once the pressure sensitivity falls out, it doesnt recover until I lift the pen away from the tablet, and then back again, as seen in the following pic:
Sometimes it would fail on the 2nd brush stroke, others on the 100th. It's completely random.
What I have tried to fix the problem:
Complete removal of drivers and Bamboo dock, then fresh install from the bundled disc.
Complete removal of drivers and Bamboo dock, then fresh installation from the lates driver download (PenTablet_532-1)
Updated nVidia drivers.
Updated motherboard drivers.
Tried differnet USB ports.
Remove ALL existing USB devices from PC except the tablet.
Tried various tablet driver revisions from the download page.
Disabled press and hold right click.
Disabled buttons on the stylus.
Disabled buttons on the tablet.
I always have the touch feature disabled.
Changed nibs.
Even then, no luck. Lastly I decided to start ending proccesses in task manager one by one to see if there was perhaps a conflict.
The pressure sensistivity would fail ALWAYS within 30 seconds of drawing. So my method was as follows:
End a proccess. Draw a pic. One by one. I have an IT backround so I have knowledge of which proccesses are safe to close etc.
Each attempt the pressure sensitivity would fail well within 60 seconds. Until I hit a proccess called "ouc.exe".
After ending this proccess I have now gone a full day of drawing without this issue. I Googled said proccess and leanred it is an online updater for my USB 3G Modem.
My only guess here is since both the 3G modem and my tablet both use USB there is some sort of driver conflict. May there are intervals in which ouc.exe attempts to check for updates which then might just kick the tablet at that moment.
I will repost a report back here after a full week of testing.
Hope all those people with this issue just all happened to have 3G modems, and this this post somewhat helped.
I am now running the latest driver for the tablet, and latest display driver for my gcard. Bamboo dock is also up to date.
So for me, this was NOT a driver related problem.
My device is a Wacom Bamboo Create.
Please excuse any typos, I always try to type too fast.
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DaveRab, thank you thank you thank you! For months now, I've been having a crazy issue that's been driving me nuts, and your solution (dragging the the "tip double click distance" slider to the "off" value) has solved it!!!!! - while not the same issue as the one the original poster had, I'm stating my problem here so that at least some people can find the solution while searching it on google.
The problem? I have an intuos4 medium and use macOS Sierra (so the solution of disabling the microsoft windows pen&input features wasn't relevant for me). When trying to draw a curve, the first stroke (head/initial/beginning of the curve) would always come out as linear segment/straight line. As if the position of the stylus was not sampled frequently enough, or the computer was having hiccups/lagging. As long as the pen stayed on the tablet, the rest of the stroke would be just fine though, so it was related to the initial contact of the pen with the tablet.
setting the "tip double click distance" to "off" did the trick!
(I hope this helps somebody)
Hi Guys,
I have a Cintiq 21 UX 2010 on windows 8.1 64bit, and have had some issues with jittery lines in PScs6 myself. The jittery lines could be solved by simply installing older drivers. pro636-3 worked fine.
Now I have just had a new problem, not unlike yours. When I draw a line it sometimes jumps to max pessure at the start and then stays at max level for the whole line. I did many strokes to test. Sometimes pressure worked normally, sometimes not. I tested with different drawing speeds and happened to notice that, only if I hesitated at the start of the stroke, or tried to draw very carefully, it jumped to max. I checked everything, reinstalled drivers, etc. Here is what worked for me:
The problem must have been some odd interactions between tablet, photoshop and windows-native pen/touch settings. Tablet and PScs6 both worked fine. It was the windows pen/touch that distorted the dynamics. Go to these Options and check both Boxes below here:
Then go to "PRESS AND HOLD" and Disable everything! (I think this is the most important part, where the tablet freaks out).
Then go to the Double-Tap Settings. What works for me is setting the first slider to the max-right; the second slider to the max-left.
I think I got the problem in the first place, because I meddled with the settings here to try something and forgot about it. Never had that problem before. I'll update if anything goes wrong again.
Saved my life.
I tried everything suggested here but unfortunately nothing worked.
However I solved the problem by disabling the right click in the Wacom tablet setting UNDER "Application: Photoshop."
I posted this in a new thread here at the Adobe forum:
CS6 and Wacom IntuosPro: during brush stroke input randomly fat, full lines appear.
7/22/2015 edit. Additional information:
To make it easier for anybody with a similar problem and for not having to jump to another thread,
here are the settings that helped me get rid of the problem of fat lines or odd line creations
Wacom IntuosPro Windows7 64 bit CS6 Photoshop
Dear all,
This is happening the same as my case above. But I dont have any kind of 3G model/driver in use. I recently use the tablet and this happened for a couple of days, really annoying when it repeated each 30-60s. Please help me to fix this problem with all your experience.
Wacom Bamboo Pen and definite it is not driver problem!.
Thanks and best regards.
Here's a Solution for Wacom touch and pen users who are having trouble with the opacity in Photoshop cs6.
Here's the problem
When drawing in photoshop your pen/tab seems to not be able to put full opacity even though the opacity is completely toggled up
This is a simple fix and has nothing to do with the nibs, or driver or even the tablet itself. For some reason Wacom and CS6 do not coincide well.
Simply go into task Manger and go to services then find a service (should be at the top) called WTabletServicePro and right click then tell the service to stop.
This should fix the error, just go into PSD and test it. I worked for me so it might for you.
Hope it helps guys,
-Firefly
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